Pop quiz: who designed the instantly-recognizable, universal symbol for “recycle”? Yeah, we didn’t know either — until we consulted The Noun Project, a brilliant site that’s part design utility, part ...

In the business world, it isn’t enough to just create a smart product. You also need a super-smart business model. Case in point: the Noun Project, an online icon collective of more than 30,000 ...

As we’ve said, pictures often speak louder than words, and if you take a look at the way-finding symbols that surround any given urban area, you’ll see how visual representations can reach beyond ...

A good graphic can make a big difference to the effectiveness of a tactile project. One of Build a Better Book's favorite resources is Noun Project. This comprehensive website offers millions of free ...

Edward Boatman and Sofya Polyakov have crowd-sourced a visual dictionary. Sofya Polyakov and Edward Boatman, right, founders, with Scott Thomas, of The Noun Project. Currently the site is home to over ...

As much technology as we have, it’s still hard to land in a foreign country and ask someone where the bathroom is. From ancient Sumerian to Google Translate, language has been used to connect ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In college, Edward Boatman was a “pretty rigorous” sketcher of simple objects like ...

While I doubt that the Noun Project, an effort to make a free library of icons representing every common concept out there, will have a profound impact on your everyday life, it’s a useful service ...

OK, this might not be much to look at -- a page full of Dingbats, essentially -- but the premise behind the Noun Project is sound and, in this increasingly complex world, important: by creating a ...