In 1994 Ibou organized the first World Symbols Festival in Ostend followed by many others in countries such as China, Korea, Japan, Poland, Mexico, Brazil, Czech Republic,… The festivals were fully devoted to the logo as a symbol represented by and with the presence of leading designers. Brand New®, is a division of UnderConsideration, displaying opinions, and focusing solely, on corporate and brand identity work.

Because it was devised for writing Latin rather than English, the Roman alphabet was not a perfect fit for the Old English sound system. With Letters As Symbols, we did not want to make a distinction between famous and non-famous designers. Change country: -Select- Albania Algeria American Samoa Andorra Angola Anguilla Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Armenia Aruba Australia Austria Azerbaijan Republic Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belarus Belgium Belize Benin Bermuda Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegovina Botswana Brazil British Virgin Islands Brunei Darussalam Bulgaria Burkina Faso Burundi Cambodia Cameroon Canada Cape Verde Islands Cayman Islands Central African Republic Chad Chile China Colombia Comoros Cook Islands Costa Rica Cyprus Czech Republic Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) Democratic Republic of the Congo Denmark Djibouti Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Estonia Ethiopia Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) Fiji Finland France French Guiana French Polynesia Gabon Republic Gambia Georgia Germany Ghana Gibraltar Greece Greenland Grenada Guadeloupe Guam Guatemala Guernsey Guinea Guinea-Bissau Guyana Haiti Honduras Hong Kong Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Iraq Ireland Israel Italy Jamaica Japan Jersey Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Kiribati Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Latvia Lebanon Lesotho Liberia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macau Macedonia Madagascar Malawi Malaysia Maldives Mali Malta Marshall Islands Martinique Mauritania Mauritius Mayotte Mexico Micronesia Moldova Monaco Mongolia Montenegro Montserrat Morocco Mozambique Namibia Nepal Netherlands Netherlands Antilles New Caledonia New Zealand Nicaragua Niger Nigeria Niue Norway Oman Pakistan Palau Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Puerto Rico Qatar Republic of Croatia Republic of the Congo Reunion Romania Rwanda Saint Helena Saint Kitts-Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Pierre and Miquelon Saint Vincent and the Grenadines San Marino Saudi Arabia Senegal Serbia Seychelles Sierra Leone Singapore Slovakia Slovenia Solomon Islands South Africa South Korea Spain Sri Lanka Suriname Swaziland Sweden Switzerland Taiwan Tajikistan Tanzania Thailand Togo Tonga Trinidad and Tobago Tunisia Turkey Turkmenistan Turks and Caicos Islands Tuvalu Uganda Ukraine United Arab Emirates United Kingdom United States Uruguay Uzbekistan Vanuatu Vatican City State Venezuela Vietnam Virgin Islands (U. The original idea for the book first came to light in 1991 thanks to Belgian design legend Paul Ibou who has not really been given the recognition he truly deserves.Having different fonts Instagram bios has become fairly popular recently, so it might be worth jumping on that trend. UnderConsideration is a graphic design firm generating its own projects, initiatives, and content while taking on limited client work. Latin had no 'th' sound and consequently no letter to represent it; to fill this gap the Anglo Saxons imported the letter 'thorn,' 'þ', from the runic alphabet.

The Unicode values of the characters in the tables below, except those shown with pink backgrounds or index values of '–', are obtained by adding the base values from the "U+" header row to the index values in the left column (both values are hexadecimal). Small details include the repurposing of the “Famous Animal Logos” form by Rolf Harder for his submission to Letters As Symbols, the provocation to discover the colour values provided by Félix Beltrán and the idiosyncrasies of each designer’s handwriting. This LogoArchive ExtraIssue offers readers a sample of Letters As Symbols and tells its story through selected logos and archival documents. He adds: "Looking purely at the aesthetics of the featured logos, they are all equal and have the qualities a good logo must have.One of those projects is Letters As Symbols, a logo book showing work that is based on one individual letter of the alphabet (from A to Z). The book features more than 400 logos, 75 corporate identities, 120 books and catalogs, 250 posters and 350 packages. There are a number of Letters As Symbols in the book from international countries, Belgium has been the obvious spotlight with 75 in total and the majority been designed by Paul Ibou himself.

These are often short pieces; never complete proposals or those that seek the dogmatic, but intend to provoke thought. During his career, Paul Ibou collected an unseen archive of logos from the most famous and renowed designers of that time such as: Saul Bass, Félix Beltrán, Burton Kramer, Yasaburo Kuwayama, Eduardo A. Because letters work at the phonemic level and are unencumbered by any extra baggage of sound, they achieve maximum efficiency.The Unicode values of the characters in the tables below, except those shown with yellow backgrounds or index values of '–', are obtained by adding the base values from the "U+" header row to the index values in the left column (both values are hexadecimal). Our six letters of 'pencil' can easily be broken out and rearranged within countless other words--'lien,' 'Nile,' 'stipend,' 'clip,'--that sound nothing like 'pencil.

Ibou received numerous awards and worldwide recognition in specialized press, leading design books and magazines. This sits alongside an anthropological text; a musing on the distinctive qualities of the human eye. The cover is the first element of the book you visually engage with, and i must say that a very good job has been done to the cover design. In addition, the iconic booklet of LogoArchive becomes a bright yellow folder to hold examples of the original Letters As Symbols submission forms received in 1991 from well-respected designers such as Félix Beltrán, Woody Pirtle and Rolf Harder. Letters As Symbols, launched on Kickstarter, is based on Belgian graphic design pioneer Paul Ibou's collection of an unseen archive of logos designed by the leading designers of the 60s until the 80s.But runic writing had only a limited use in Britain; the conversion to Christianity brought with it the Roman alphabet, which was established as the principal medium for Old English written records. The styled characters are mostly located in the Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block, but the 24 characters in cells with a pink background are located in the letterlike symbols block, for example, ℛ ( script capital r) is at U+211B rather than the expected U+1D4AD which is reserved. In its new format, the book gathers Ibou’s original archive materials with more contemporary work; offering a broad selection of beautiful logo design and lettering that’s likely to prove an inspiration for designers, artists, agencies, teachers, typographers, students, and pretty much anyone interested in logo design, typography and letterforms.