Two graphic designers comb through thousands of years of iconography in a new handbook for understanding visual language. In 1914, the cat represented police oppression of women’s suffrage. Today, it ...

It is easy to minimize the importance of symbols in culture. Art tends to focus on existential symbolism, leap-frogging over the ways in which we interpret symbols constantly, in the form of letters, ...

The image of Nicolás Maduro in Nike athleisure did not trivialize power; it normalized it. And normalization, in this context ...

A logo -- a small symbol or design used in business marketing -- is usually one of the first visual symbols a company develops in the early stages of planning. It often follows the naming the business ...