From the stop sign to the laugh-cry emoji, symbols play a critical and ubiquitous role in everyday life. A forthcoming exhibition at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, “Give Me a Sign: The ...
Join curator Dr. Emily M. Orr for a behind-the-scenes peek into the making of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum’s exhibition Give Me a Sign: The Language of Symbols (on view now through ...
At the very beginning of the “Symbol Sourcebook: An Authoritative Guide to International Graphic Symbols” (1972), the book’s author and one of the era’s most accomplished industrial designers, Henry ...