International Icon Tarot

I had seen this a few years ago but had forgotten about it until I saw a low res repro posted at a used bookstore yesterday. Since I am still thinking about story telling using the International Icons (that odd event story I'm still waiting to tell), and the artistic use and design will really influence how I design and illustrate my own story.

Fantastic work by Needmore Designs

Story Revision

Edit: If you didn't get the story, don't be surprised. I need to give it some coherence rather than just explode it. I'll post the rework, shortly.


After running my story past an illustrator, he suggested I add another feature to my key in order to add clarity. So I did. And I also added one more arrow somewhere.

It's not supposed to be a puzzle with the secret known only to me, everything you need to understand the story (without words), or breaking into a left to right story flow (in case there are right->left or up->down readers who encounter this) should be there.

You can click the picture or this link

I Speak Picture

I got a blowout on the highway yesterday, and while wandering around a Borders as my tire was being replaced I found a book entitled Amazon.com: Pictograms, Icons and Signs by Rayan Abdullah,Roger Hubner. The final chapter was an essay by Jochen Gros discussing his creation of a working
grammar for a pictogram language of his devising.

At his site:
icon-language.com you can download an Open Type font that converts your text to pictures as you type it.



This is a complete sentence. What did I say? (The answer is in the comments.)

You should check it out. What also amuses me, is that many of the words he has pictogrammed involve sex, bodies in states of undress and seduction. I mean if I were going to create a language, those would be the first things I would define too.