"This project was born as an act of criticism toward a culture of software product churn," says the creator of Killed By Google, an archive of products lost to the sands of time. The Airbnb Tool ...

Edward Boatman and Sofya Polyakov have crowd-sourced a visual dictionary. Sofya Polyakov and Edward Boatman, right, founders, with Scott Thomas, of The Noun Project. Currently the site is home to over ...

As much technology as we have, it’s still hard to land in a foreign country and ask someone where the bathroom is. From ancient Sumerian to Google Translate, language has been used to connect ...

A good graphic can make a big difference to the effectiveness of a tactile project. One of Build a Better Book's favorite resources is Noun Project. This comprehensive website offers millions of free ...

The Noun Project is well known as one of the best places to get icons for any of your projects, but the company’s expanding today with a new app for organizing your design assets. It’s called Lingo, ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In college, Edward Boatman was a “pretty rigorous” sketcher of simple objects like ...

OK, this might not be much to look at — a page full of Dingbats, essentially — but the premise behind the Noun Project is sound and, in this increasingly complex world, important: by creating a visual ...