Symbols surround us everywhere, from the heart emoji we send in texts to the complex iconography in renaissance paintings. They're the visual shorthand that lets artists pack entire stories, emotions, ...

Semioticians classify signs or sign systems in relation to the way they are transmitted. To illuminate one way semioticians look at things, let us peek at stage and film semiotics, which study the ...

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, ...

On Jan. 3, hours after the U.S. captured Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro in Caracas, a photograph circulated showing ...

Great care has been taken in the production of the book. 45 Symbols—Clay to Code is offset printed by Stober Medien and ...

In Pakistan, where roughly 40 percent of the 240 million people are illiterate, electoral symbols play a crucial role in ensuring voters have a voice in the democratic process. 1 A motorcyclist rides ...

When Shane Smithers was adding traditional symbols to his mural, commuters passing by asked him, "What are you doing?!" The Aboriginal artist says it's because he wasn't painting dots or concentric ...

A Nigerian Visual Artist, Yele Akin-Johnson is at the forefront of global digital culture by re-imagining African visual language in a global digital economy. Akin-Johnson is working at the porous ...