This is from a design museum show about 6 years ago. An Italian artists created a global language in with modern iconography. It's hard to see from this photo, but the images are derived from: Health care, war, food, technology and a few more themes I can't recall. His idea was that these icons could be reconfigured to convey meaning across the modern (1st) world.
The MoMA has an interesting exhibit about "Tangled Alphabets" that I am dying to check out. Might relate to what you're talking about in this blog post.
ReplyDeleteCheck it out:
http://moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/299