Viktor Hertz is a freelance design artist and photographer located in Uppsala, Sweden. In his Pictogram Music Posters series, Viktor imagines famous songs as pictographs. Posters from this series are available as both prints and t-shirts on Big Cartel and Red Bubble
Pictographs
A pictograph, also called pictogram or pictogramme is an ideogram that conveys its meaning through its pictorial resemblance to a physical object. Pictographs are often used in writing and graphic systems in which the characters are to considerable extent pictorial in appearance.
Pictography is a form of writing which uses representational, pictorial drawings. It is a basis of cuneiform and, to some extent, hieroglyphic writing, which uses drawings also as phonetic letters or determinative rhymes.
Pictographs remain in common use today, serving as pictorial, representational signs, instructions, or statistical diagrams. Because of their graphical nature and fairly realistic style, they are widely used to indicate public toilets, or places such as airports and train stations. [Source]
Sources
– Viktor Hertz on Behance
– Viktor Hertz Posters for Sale
– Viktor Hertz Prints and Tees
– Viktor Hertz on Flickr
– Viktor Hertz on Twitter
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