Pictogram and Icon Collection: From Public Signage to Web Icons - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 4894445050 ISBN 13: 9784894445055

Publisher: PIE Books, 2006

Synopsis

The pictograms seen in urban signage such as department stores, museums, Olympic venues, public toilets, in print media, and on the Web are compiled in this single volume. This book presents outstanding pictograms and icons created by professionals from fifteen different countries around the world, categorized by industry for easy reference. Featuring a foreword by Ruedi Rüegg, a well-known graphic designer and visiting professor and guest lecturer at Ohio University, Kent State University, Carnegie Mellon University, and Cooper Union Design School. As Rüegg says, "Pictograms organize. Pictograms create order in an often chaotic world." Without pictograms and signs, today’s complicated multi-language world would not work, and thus, user-friendly pictograms are demanded for public spaces. When reviewing the selected 180 examples from fifteen countries, readers will see the universality of the designs, and understand what a good sign is supposed to look like.

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Synopsis

This book presents outstanding pictograms and icons by designers around the world, categorized by industry for easy reference. No other book of its kind is as comprehensive - a permanent archive in one volume! It is competitively comparable to "Pictoplasma" from DGV, but immeasurably better (and cheaper) The pictograms seen in urban signage - department store floor guides, museums, airports, Olympic venues, public toilets, and many, many more - are complied in a single volume. A wide variety of icons, including those found in magazine and travel guides, and on the web, reproduced on parade, are shown isolated and in application.

Edition details

• Publisher: PIE Books
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 4894445050
• ISBN 13: 9784894445055
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 128