Pictograms, Icons & Signs : A Guide to Information Graphics

This copiously illustrated sourcebook of pictogram design presents a multitude of examples from around the world, outlining the history of the pictogram and showing how it has been applied in commercial and creative fields over the past century.

Crammed with invaluable hints and advice to all designers, the book brilliantly demonstrates that it is possible to create a visual language that crosses all grammatical and semantic boundaries - to create, in effect, a 'language without words'.