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The RiLL association accepted our proposal to choose visual languages as the theme of the next SFIDA 2023 literary competition (competition reserved for winners of past editions of the RiLL Trophy). Here is the announcement (deadline at the end of July to send stories).
The KomunIKON team was invited to chair a session about visual languages in July 2021 at the DUXU conference (the 10TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DESIGN, USER EXPERIENCE AND USABILITY): http://2021.hci.international/duxu In this framework we will publish with Springer a paper on IKON with title “From Hieroglyphs to Emoji, to IKON: the search of the (perfect?)…
KomunIKON was invited to present a talk and to participate in a panel at the Emoji Workshop 2021. Here you can find the presentation of the talk. An iconic language, beyond Emoji: the KomunIKON project. (Cesco Reale, KomunIKON) The KomunIKON project (www.komunikon.com) is developing an iconic language to translate potentially any sentence into…
ENGLISH Versão em português abaixo. Česká verze níže. Versione italiana qui sotto. Ẹ̀dá Yorùbá wà nísàlẹ̀. Український вірш ніже. Deutsche Version unten. Version française ci-dessous. Celebrating Our First Summer Barbecue This summer, KomunIKON hosted its first-ever barbecue event for those of our dedicated group of volunteers who live in the French-speaking side of Switzerland. The…
English Introduction: The Influence of Visual Symbols in Branding In the dynamic world of marketing and brand development, visual elements wield immense power. Among these, icons, the small yet influential symbols, emerge as pivotal players in crafting a brand’s identity. This article explores the captivating realm of symbolism and its profound influence on the success…
English The KomunIKON team published one more paper, this time in the proceedings of iConLangs 2022, International Constructed Languages Conference, University of Torino https://sites.google.com/unito.it/i-conlangs22/home-page The proceedings are downloadable here: https://ojs.unito.it/index.php/ricognizioni/issue/view/599 and our paper is here: https://ojs.unito.it/index.php/ricognizioni/article/view/7095/6096
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.