Early Writing & Iconography

Assignment: Choose a mobile application with a lot of icons. Compare and contrast that application’s iconography to the original Sumerian alphabet, Mayan pictographs or Egyptian hieroglyphics.

• What’s being communicated?
• What concepts need to be learned?
• What metaphors are being used?
• You may limit your discussion to 1 or 2 icons for simplicity. You may include screenshots for comparing and contrasting.
• Post your thoughts to the class blog.

• WEEK 1: Comparison of Early Writing and Modern Iconography
  by Emily Tseng
  February 3, 2022
  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… Read more: WEEK 1: Comparison of Early Writing and Modern Iconography
• Application’s Iconography and Early Iconography
  by Yitong Wang
  January 28, 2022
  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.… Read more: Application’s Iconography and Early Iconography
• compare and contrast
  by Xingyu Yang
  January 28, 2022
  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… Read more: compare and contrast
• Symbols and Cuneiform to iconography
  by Robert Leng
  January 27, 2022
  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… Read more: Symbols and Cuneiform to iconography
• week 1 Compare and contrast
  by Tingyi Li
  January 27, 2022
  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… Read more: week 1 Compare and contrast
• Week 1 _iconography and Pictography
  by Gina Park
  January 27, 2022
  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)… Read more: Week 1 _iconography and Pictography