In many ways, the foundations for modern day iconography and logos can be traced back to as early as 5000 BCE, or the eras in which cuneiform, hieroglyphs, and cave paintings first surfaced. What we know as ‘writing’ today went through a myriad of transformations, but started off in a familiar form: pictographs. Much of…
LINE
The app I chose is “LINE.” One of the famous communication apps in east Asia and southeast Asia. The similarity between those ancient times languages and icons on “LINE” is they both try to make products or elements in the real world into simple graphics. And I think LINE icons are much similar to Egyptian…
From ancient human figures to skip buttons
Even with well-written languages and phonetic words in this digital world, we are already programmed to learn and understand the symbols and ideographs that existed thousands of years ago. In this blog entry, I want to focus on comparing some music-control buttons on Samsung Music to the Egyptian hieroglyphics and Sumerian logographs. Traveling through time,…
SNAPCHAT
The app I decided to choose with many icons is Snapchat. The icons and buttons I find interesting featured in the app include: map, camera, friends, and texting. These buttons take after the sumerian alphabet’s approach of simple yet explanatory. The sumerian alphabet is best compared to the app I chose because of its simplistic…
XBOX APP
I chose Xbox app as it has a variety of Icons. Among them, I selected ‘pins’, ‘search’, and ‘achievement’ as one group, and ‘settings’ as another. Compared to Sumerian, which has included the whole syllable and read as logographs or syllables, the icons on the Xbox app are ideographs which symbolise the idea and concept…
Text Bubble
The icon that I chose to compare with the ancient characters or letters would be the Meet & Chat icon from the Zoom. The Meet & Chat icon is a rectangle with rounded corners, and it has an extended triangle on the left bottom. In nowadays, we call this shape text bubble. Thanks to the…
