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Aug 13, 2010
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The System

rosscott:

This was a great writing exercise to see what story I could tell without using ANY words and using only 1 symbol per panel.

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The System

rosscott:

This was a great writing exercise to see what story I could tell without using ANY words and using only 1 symbol per panel.

Filed under: wordless

Jul 08, 2010
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murketing:


Gerd Arntz. 
“A truly prolific designer, Gerd Arntz was an incredible designer. His hallmark work were his symbols of industry, demographics, politics and economy titled Isotype.”


Love Gerd Arntz and Isotype.

murketing:

Gerd Arntz.

“A truly prolific designer, Gerd Arntz was an incredible designer. His hallmark work were his symbols of industry, demographics, politics and economy titled Isotype.”

Love Gerd Arntz and Isotype

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Jun 28, 2010
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Rosscott, Inc. » Archive » The System 390: Know Your Symbols
webcomic The System (http://www.systemcomic.com/), a daily comic-strip style mess starring iconography and graphics most notable from street and wayfinding signage
Be sure to check out the archives.

Rosscott, Inc. » Archive » The System 390: Know Your Symbols

webcomic The System (http://www.systemcomic.com/), a daily comic-strip style mess starring iconography and graphics most notable from street and wayfinding signage

Be sure to check out the archives.

Apr 07, 2010
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Mar 22, 2010
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The @ symbol used in a 1536 letter from an Italian merchantSome linguists believe that @ dates back to the sixth or seventh century, a ligature meant to fuse the Latin preposition ad—meaning “at”, “to,” or “toward”—into a unique pen stroke. The symbol persisted in sixteenth-century Venetian trade, where it was used to mean amphora, a standard-size terracotta vessel employed by merchants, which had become a unit of measure. Interestingly, the current Spanish word for @, arroba, also indicates a unit of measure.
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@ at MoMA
The @ symbol used in a 1536 letter from an Italian merchant
Some linguists believe that @ dates back to the sixth or seventh century, a ligature meant to fuse the Latin preposition ad—meaning “at”, “to,” or “toward”—into a unique pen stroke. The symbol persisted in sixteenth-century Venetian trade, where it was used to mean amphora, a standard-size terracotta vessel employed by merchants, which had become a unit of measure. Interestingly, the current Spanish word for @, arroba, also indicates a unit of measure.

From @ at MoMA

Feb 25, 2010
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Feb 03, 2010
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Jan 25, 2010
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Realism in UI DesignNice little article on designing symbols / icons with some theory from Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics.
Realism in UI Design

Nice little article on designing symbols / icons with some theory from Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics.

Oct 21, 2009
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