A visual language goes beyond simple brand standards by defining a specific illustration style, icon style, and data visualization style for all branded content. Too often, businesses fall short on ...

Semioticians classify signs or sign systems in relation to the way they are transmitted. To illuminate one way semioticians look at things, let us peek at stage and film semiotics, which study the ...

There is a long history of Visual or Graphical Programming Languages, and most of them make more sense than the name of Microsoft’s Visual Basic, C#, and Visual Studio IDE. Some people don’t like to ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. We take many things in our environment for granted: materials, textures, shadows and reflections. Sometimes we think of these visual ...

Michael Rosen has taken his radio show Word Of Mouth to look at the power of the language of comics, with comics theorist and cognitive researcher Neil Cohn, author of The Visual Language of Comics.

Wacom has grand designs for a new graphical language that, it says, will allow input and sharing of writing movements across multiple platforms, with or without one of its trademark digital styluses.

Having a strong graphic identity and clear visual language matters for everyone from small design brands and independent restaurants, to whole neighbourhoods. Here are three new, standout projects ...