ATLANTA - A new standard from the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) provides a comprehensive set of airside, piping, controls, and equipment symbols ...

A 3-D symbol library is available that operates smoothly with building automation system (BAS) software. The library was developed to provide the industry with more appealing and realistic graphics ...

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 designers, Henry ...

From the stop sign to the laugh-cry emoji, symbols play a critical and ubiquitous role in everyday life. A forthcoming exhibition at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, “Give Me a Sign: The ...

A graphic identity, or visual identity, is the brand message communicated by a company's logo, design schemes, characters and other visual symbols used in internal and external messages. A consistent, ...

Everyday symbols like &?!#@$ are highly memorable, according to new research. The new study led by the University of Waterloo aimed to investigate how well symbols are remembered compared to words ...

Children gradually develop interpretive theory of mind (iToM)— the understanding that different people may interpret identical events or stimuli differently. The present study tested whether more ...

Some graphic forms are so ubiquitous today that it’s hard to remember that they were ever novel. But of course, there was a first time for everything. A new and comprehensive visual survey of graphic ...