Artist Wallisy Kandinsky joined the Bauhaus art movement in 1922. He believed that abstract shapes (the square, circle, and triangle) were associated with particular colors. Before reading on, take a ...

Design Observer has written a fascinating essay on the Winkel, otherwise knwon as the Nazi triangle, with some excellent notes on the history of its design: No documentation has surfaced that proves ...

Humans have used symbols and iconography to communicate and to identify things going back to when someone made the first drawings on cave walls. Using symbols to communicate pre-dates language and the ...