Icons tend to be functional rather than something I warm to. Personally speaking, the only system of icons I regard with fondness were to be found on the beautiful, intricate instructions for Airfix ...

Susan Kare, “Sketches for Graphic User Interface Icon” (detail) (1982), ink on graph paper, on view in ‘This Is for Everyone’ at MoMA (gift of the designer, 2015, photo by the author for Hyperallergic ...

If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. The official pictograms for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics were revealed this past week as Japan marked 500 ...