CategoryEarly Writing & Iconography

In an application with many features, we might see various icons that represent different features. These simple and delicate representations help the users understand the purpose of the feature in different ways. Some icons use physical objects to make help users make associations, some icons visualize the content of the feature. However, these ways of conveying information through symbols have...

Petzinger believes, using symbols to communicate “represent a fundamental shift in our ancestor’s mental skills”, to abstract symbols like we mostly see and use today. Symbol makes it easy for fixing and transmitting knowledge through space and time. We start with drawings and symbols on the cave wall, then we end up using pictures and symbols on our phones and computer to communicate universally...

The picture above is Egyptian hieroglyphics, some of the symbols are relatively easy to understand words, people judge the meaning of the words by the appearance of the characters. Pictographs combine pictographic, syllabic, and alphabetic elements. From the picture above, we can see that some snakes, owls, people and birds, these very vivid symbols express their own meaning. The concept required...

The symbols seen across the world in caves have a similarity as seen in the image above. From North America, Europe, Australia, and Central Africa there are symbols being used. They all use these symbols to communicate an idea, a story, their history in a sense of pictures. The Symbols that once were used to tell a story were developed into a way to communicate, a writing system. The image above...

I think these two Icons are very similar. But they may mean different things. The original European hieroglyphs probably spoke more of the heart. This is more of an expression that this is an organ. The app’s image is more about liking. But they are all figurative representations of human emotions or thoughts. People can use symbols to express their inner thoughts or use symbols to record...

I’ve heard many history of language. And this is one that most detailed. I didn’t know there was that many variety of (history of latin) languages. Also I was surprised that there were few different perspective to see history of languages. I use Korean which is developed by Sejong the Great (the fourth ruler of the Joseon Dynasty of Korea). So when I learned about history of Korean...