Early cave paintings are some of the first marks we have found left by humans of long ago. Whether they were used to tell stories, give information, as art, or all of it, they remain a fascination of designers today. How do you convey so much information with just the few simple lines of an icon? These ingrained, cross-cultural understandings of imagery are in all of us, and are what make applications, machinery, driving, traffic systems, etc all somewhat universal.
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