Assignment: Choose a mobile application with a lot of icons. Compare and contrast that application’s iconography to the original Sumerian alphabet, Mayan pictographs or Egyptian hieroglyphics.
What’s being communicated?
What concepts need to be learned?
What metaphors are being used?
You may limit your discussion to 1 or 2 icons for simplicity. You may include screenshots for comparing and contrasting.
Compared with modern icons, original icons are more abstract and complex. As time goes by, we can clearly feel that modern icons will be more iconic than before. However, the appearance of a small number of icons does not seem to have changed much from ancient times to the present.… Read more: Pictography & Modern Icons
Regarding Mayan hieroglyphs, they are composed of various graphical elements. The image below shows the Mayan calendar. In this calendar, similar to modern ones, time and dates are recorded using different symbols on a wheel-like structure. As for modern calendar icons, they also feature many squares representing different dates. This… Read more: Calendar Icon and Mayan Hieroglyphs
The lotus flower appearing in Egyptian hieroglyphics, representing the sun, creation, and rebirth. The Egyptians believed that in the beginning of time, the lotus blossomed from the water and released the sun. The flower closes and sinks underwater at night, and it rises and reopens again in the morning, revealing… Read more: Ios Photo Gallery Icon vs Egyptian hieroglyphics.
I use the meaning of “love” to compare the ancient Sumerian cuneiform expression of “love” with the modern “I Love New York” logo. There are many levels to this comparison. I will compare historical context, design elements, and culture,Attributes. History background: Sumerian notation is an ancient script that dates back… Read more: Modern Icons VS. Cuneiform
The latest photo sharing app, Lapse, uses an abundance of icons and emojis for users to click on and react to other people’s photos with. The main icon you see on the app’s interface is the camera, friend feed, inbox, search and add friends. Since cameras are a technology that… Read more: Lapse Icon vs. Egyptian + Mayan hieroglyphs
The “bird” icon of Twitter Twitter’s “bird” icon is its iconic logo, “bird” also has the meaning of transmitting information and freedom, which is very consistent with the concept of communication and freedom of speech of Twitter, and represents the core features of Twitter. The “bird” icon on Twitter’s home… Read more: Twitter Icon vs. Egyptian Hieroglyphics
Hieroglyphics combined logographic and alphabetic elements, representing sounds, objects, and concepts. They were used in a variety of contexts, including religious texts, monumental inscriptions, and administrative documents. Deciphering hieroglyphics required understanding hundreds of symbols, their various meanings, and the context in which they were used. And also, hieroglyphs used a… Read more: Instagram Icon vs. Egyptian Hieroglyphics
The eye icon in Spotify is very similar to Egyptian hieroglyphics but very different from the Mayan pictograph eye. They also have some standards, such as the shape of the eye. The Spotify app gives an abbreviated version of the human eye. Mayan pictographs are different than Egyptian hieroglyphs and… Read more: Spotify icons vs. Egyptian hieroglyphics and Mayan pictograph