Historian Pamela Smith ‘s book, Symbols, Images, Codes: The Secret Language of Meaning in Film, TV, Games and Visual Media provides many examples. Alfred Hitchcock–a master of film symbolism.

ON the surface, emojis seem laughably trivial—cartoon faces and tiny icons cluttering our phones. Yet behind their colorful simplicity lies a fascinating story of 21st-century global culture. These ...

If you’re wondering what Apple’s visual design language is going to look like in the coming years, we may now have a solid idea — and it’s all down to some new iOS icons.

In creating these and most of the other icons on the original Apple Macintosh, she established the visual language that would form the foundation of point-and-click computing.

There is also a visual aspect to understanding language, says Collignon. It is easier to understand what someone is saying if you are looking at them and watching the movements of their lips, for ...