Enzo Mari, Cubo, Sei simboli Sinsemantici, one out of six semantic symbols, 1972. Silkscreen print. Source Danese
Arrow, Star, Waves, Moon, Cube, Clover are archetypal symbols. …
Mechanical and childlike here the sign seems almost the magnification to the lens of a simple pen tracing noted down as a synthetic, illustrative explanation of a discourse, with the endings rounded by the change of scale that the drawing seems to have undergone.’ (Vittorio Gregotti, 1972) The reduction to an elementary graphic sign of an image reveals its iconographic meaning by transforming it into a symbol. Source Domus
Design is fine. History is mine. 