In the world of contemporary art, few voices resonate with the quiet emotional force of Samy Snoussi. The 32-year-old artist, ...

At the very beginning of the “Symbol Sourcebook: An Authoritative Guide to International Graphic Symbols” (1972), the book’s author and one of the era’s most accomplished industrial ...

To start with, “You can’t please everybody,” Mr. Kaye said. So is it worth it to attempt a redesign? Elizabeth Goodspeed, a graphic designer and design critic, thinks so.

Joachim Roncin, director of design at Paris 2024, said the design team deliberately took a different approach to the symbols. “With the phone, I mean everybody knows where to go,” he said.