ICONS is a reference book designed to educate people about the personalities who wrote history
between the 20th and 21st centuries focusing on ways of how to engage youngsters with our history.
As a graphic designer it was in my own interest to approach such a coherent matter.
Combining ubiquitous graphics with history, often represented in austere and stuffy ways, is challenging.
In this piece we deal with icons. In the christian orthodox tradition we are talking about religious icons,
Combining ubiquitous graphics with history, often represented in austere and stuffy ways, is challenging.
In this piece we deal with icons. In the christian orthodox tradition we are talking about religious icons,
people were a huge influence others. In semiotics an icons is a graphical representation of an entity,
retaining some spatial properties. In information technology an icon is a graphical representation
of a program or document. The challenge is to develop a way of mixing graphics and history in a way
that captures people, finding a playful and fun way to engage young people with history by creating
coherent graphic representation of 100 personalities who were at the forefront of writing history.
