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So What's a Piktograf Anyway?

05.30.11

So what is piktograf? Good question. Beyond being an innovative new design studio, our name Piktograf is actually a riff on the anthropology term pictograph. A pictograph is a simple pictorial symbol for a word or phrase. Pictographs are everywhere.

That ubiquitous sign with a lit cigarette crossed out that universally means no smoking, that sign with a gas pump on it that means gas station ahead, those are pictographs.

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