Piktogramme und Icons

Apictogram is an image created to enable quick and unambiguous communication outside the realm of words. In an increasingly globalized world, pictograms are coming to play a more and more important role. Verlag Hermann Schmidt has been asked repeatedly in the past few years to produce a book on pictograms which describes their function, sets out criteria for evaluation, outlines their development and realization, and stimulates creativity by means of a multiplicity of examples. We have been fortunate in gaining the services of an experienced team of authors for this project, namely Professor Rayan Abdullah and Roger Hübner [the authors of our...

title Corporate Design]. Using a multitude of pictograms painstakingly collected, they not only show the variety of possibilities and the existing quality differentials, but also, importantly, outline ways of approaching specific tasks. This is a reference book with valuable suggestions for all practicians who consider language barriers out of place in the information systems of the twenty-first century, and therefore regard pictograms as an integral part of corporate design in an increasingly international business environment. In addition to offline pictograms, the authors of course provide a detailed discussion of icons, the »silent servants«...

of online communities.

Beyond the Basics
320 pages
Format: 21 x 29,7 cm
Cloth with jacket
ISBN 978-3-87439-649-3