Drawing was hard. Illustration was harder. Clay was the hardest.
How about research in visuals? This world never ceases to astonish me.
Melih Bilgil, is doing his research for a common Pictorial language for the web. Yeah, you got it right. A language in pictures.
PICOL is a project for providing free and open icons for electronic devices. The aim is to find a common pictorial language for electronic communication.
In the words of the researcher himself:
Intention is to design an open pictorial language, which can be used and modified by everyone. This shall be my part to the standardization of the world wide web and a step ahead to the semiotic web. The result of my diploma will be an extendable icon-set for people making graphical user interfaces, explaining complex issues with diagrams and whatever they want to do with.
And, it’s not all theory for him. He painstakingly explains his research in the form of a video charting the course of the “ Internet “ Although the video ends at a time when things actually started getting interesting, but the effort nonetheless is applaudable.
Here is the video:
History of the Internet from PICOL on Vimeo
