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I’m fascinated by modern iconography, and reducing information into a compact symbol that is easily understood and universally applied.<\/p>\n

This article about the efforts (some of them inadvertent) to redesign the famous wheelchair \/ accessibility icon, and the emotions and controversy that’s raised, is pretty fascinating, too.<\/p>\n


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\nThe Controversial Process of Redesigning the Wheelchair Symbol – Atlas Obscura<\/a><\/span>
\nIt has its own emoji, but where did the new Accessible Icon come from?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m fascinated by modern iconography, and reducing information into a compact symbol that is easily understood and universally applied. This article about the efforts (some of them inadvertent) to redesign the famous wheelchair \/ accessibility icon, and the emotions and controversy that’s raised, is pretty fascinating, too. The Controversial Process of Redesigning the Wheelchair Symbol … Continue reading “On redesigning an icon”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,350,80,24,8],"tags":[1173,1506,1505],"class_list":["post-136117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-civil-liberties","category-media-commercial","category-writing-and-language","category-zt-pc","tag-disability","tag-iconography","tag-wheelchair"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/wheelchair-symbol.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":22643,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/11\/iconography-from-the-past.html","url_meta":{"origin":136117,"position":0},"title":"Iconography from the past","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 11-Sep-11 10:00pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Ever notice something about those \"As Seen on TV\" blurbs and graphics? 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