International visual language KomunIKON is a project dealing with iconic communication. We are developing IKON, an international visual language through which a lot of sentences and concepts can be expressed only through icons, going one step beyond Emoji. Emoji Today Emoji are used by 2.5 billion people, while English and Chinese are used by far…
In the KomunIKON Youtube channel we created a playlist about visual languages with over 40 videos about IKON, Bliss, Emoji and much more: YouTube playlist
In April 2020 the KomunIKON team participated the online hackathon Versus Virus Switzerland, proposing iconic sentences about the Coronavirus SARS-COV-2. https://bit.ly/3dnRAOG
Dai geroglifici agli Emoji: la fantastica storia delle lingue visuali. Quali sono i tratti comuni tra geroglifici, glifi Maya e caratteri cinesi? Emoji e icone ci riportano all’inizio dei sistemi di scrittura? Sono un’involuzione che ci rende più stupidi o un’evoluzione che arricchisce la nostra comunicazione? Cosa manca agli Emoji? In questa conferenza Cesco Reale…
Multilingual talk by the KomunIKON team on the history of visual languages at the Polyglot Gathering 2019 in Bratislava. From Hieroglyphs to Emoji: breve historio des langues visuelles – Cesco Reale, André Müller.