Bobbed along to a packed Typographic Circle talk at JWT last week to see Angus Hyland, Pentagram partner, give a talk about Symbol, his new book. It was a great intro into the history of the visual language of symbols and how they interact with the design world.
An added bonus was a breakdown of the thinking behind the redesigning/rebranding work he has done over the last ten years (along with his wife Marion Dechaurs who I spoke about before Christmas) for Cass Art. The designs are clean, colourful and when added to a Swiss design bring intelligence to what is basically a simple idea. There's a nice explanation on the eye blog about it.
