“French researchers have developed a new iconic drug information system inspired by road signs. This icon system is named VCM, short for ?Visualisation des Connaissances Médicales? in French, which means ?Visualization of Medical Knowledge.? Like road signs, the VCM graphical language uses a small set of graphical signs. The current dictionary contains about 130 pictograms displayed in 5 colors.”
A new iconic drug information system inspired by road signs
Road signs for physicians
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“The Virtual Wall provides a barrier made up of plasma laser beams depicting pedestrians doing what they do best and any car that crosses that barrier suffers the consequences. Okay so maybe those lasers aren’t powerful enough to do any harm but the effect is enough to make drivers and pedestrians alike follow crosswalk rules to the tee.”
Designer: Hanyoung Lee
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“Icographic (The review of International Visual Communication Design) was founded by John Halas in 1971. It was designed / edited by Patrick Wallis Burke and released quarterly, well atleast for the first year. The journal addressed the broader areas of visual communication such as semiotics, communication theory, ergonomics of visual communication and the psychology of perception.”
Icographic Journal - Isotypes, Icons and Pictograms
“Attention Please is a Manifesto Club photo-album, capturing unnecessary, absurd or patronising safety warnings in public spaces. By turning our cameras on needless safety tape and signage, we hope to expose those who put them there - and encourage a more rational approach.”
Attention Please
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Attention Please: A Walk Interrupted by Safety Signage by Tom Mower
“Falling Times refers to the heavy InfoPollution we live in. the InfoSociety has created a new kind of consumer â the InfoConsumer!” The Falling Times
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