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Design for the World: Push / Pull PictogramDesign for the World is soliciting designers world wide to collaborate on a project which could contribute to to a better communication between peoples who speak different languages.
Nowadays many different cultures share equal or similar codified systems of pictograms, but none of them express the "pushpull" function.
In order to illustrate which way a door opens it is necessary to use words, even written in different alphabets, which vary according to the language of a given country.
In accordance with the aims expressed by Design for the World, the organisation is inviting submissions to offer the world a new pictogram which would fill this gap.
Voluntary contributions of ideas, sketches or formal proposals which would show how designers see the push-pull pictogram are being sought.
The proposals, sketches or ideas submitted will be organised according to their conceptual or visual affinities and assembled into "families".
All sketches, ideas or proposals of each of these "families" will then be synthesized into one sign which reflects its essence, so that there will be as many unique signs as there are families .
These different synthesized signs will then be sent to all designers who have contributed with ideas, sketches or proposals, so that all participants may offer input on their preferences by e-mail.
This phase will allow for indication of possible cultural or semiological incompatibilities detected.
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