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some icons

fatiguey today so don't want to stretch my brain, here's some things in juxtaposition and i'll let you do the thinking about them:

a bad photo of a recent game of Wilmot's Warehouse that i played. tiles designed by Dick Hogg

Ron Cobb's icon design for the Alien films

screenshot from my artwork Display Case, showing the Unicode symbols with codes between 9472 and 9912

poster design showing different signage indicating dangerous goods, as per the IATA standards. i want to link to my friend Kit Buckley's incredible research into the origins of the "perishable goods" icon (not pictured), but he hasn't put it up yet.

Lexigram symbols used by bonobos to communicate with humans (who have trained them to use them). from here, via Nick Seaver

Hobo signs, from Symbol Sourcebook, by Henry Dreyfuss

There are more things that could fit within this category, I'm sure.