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VISUAL CODES

 

THE ALL PURPOSE PRESENTATION, FORTUNE MAGAZINE 1957

 

 

 

Hands

	HANDS THAT CARRY INFORMATION
	SIGNING FOR THE DEAF 1942

	HAND GESTURES FOR DIVERS
	HAND GESTURES - NUMBERS
	HAND GESTURES FOR WATERSKIERS
	HAND LANGUAGE FOR THE BOOKIE (HORSES)
	HAND LANGUAGE - LETTERS

	UMPIRES' GESTURES
	V SIGNS (INADVERTANT OR DELIBERATE)
	VISUAL LANGUAGES 'MUTE/DEAF'
	SCOUTS' DRILL
	SIGNALS, POLICEMAN
	FINGERPRINTS

	FORTUNE TELLING
	ENGRAVING FROM BOSSE'S TREATISE 1645
	PACKAGING FOR PILLS

Abstract Codes

	BRAILLE
	CIVILIAN CHEVRON MARKINGS
	ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING
	HOBOS' CODE
	HOUSE MARKS
	THE ROMANY PATERAN
	THOR ROCKET SWITCH AUTHENTICTY DOUBTFUL

	MARITIME FLAGS (signals)
	PERIODIC TABLE
	QUIPU (coloured knots)
	US CAR PLATES
	BOTANICAL SIGNS

	ROAD SIGNS (UK 1930's)
	FOUR ELEMENTS
	SWAN MARKINGS
	STONEMASONS' MARKS
	STRING FIGURES
	REDMAN'S PERPETUAL TIDE TABLE 1761

	WEATHER SYMBOLS
	JAPANESE FAMILY CRESTS (SINGLE)
	CHINESE DEBT CERTIFICATES
	TRADING STAMPS
	THEATRE CHECKS AND TICKETS 1671 - 1817
	AMERICAN ABSTRACT/PICTORIAL SYMBOLS 1959

	BBC TV TEST CARD 1952
	ABSTRACTIONS IN A LANDSCAPE, A NEW CITY 1958
	CHALK MARKINGS IN A DIAGRAM OF GRAIN STORAGE BARRELS
	CATTLE BRANDING 1950

 

Picture Codes

	HERALDRY
	REBUS
	THE STATE EXECUTIONER'S AXE
	POINT IT OUT, 1944
	OSAKA EXPO '70 SIGNAGE
	MONTREAL EXPO 1967 SIGNAGE
	SEE-READING, LOOK MAGAZINE 1938

Notation

	DANCE NOTATION
	MUSICAL NOTATION
	NOTATION FOR BALLET
	NOTATION FOR GAMES
	Sheldon's The Art of Short Writing, London 1672
	24 Representations of Polander's Tumbling (1894)

 

Diagrammatic

	BODILY DAMAGE
	INTONATION
	HEIGHTS ABOVE SEA LEVEL FOR AREAS OF LONDON
	ENGINEERING THE MOTOR CAR C1955
	GOD AND THE FIRMAMENT AND TEXTS 1531
	FRISKING
	Guide to Coinage, Hyginus, Basle 1550
	A Slave Ship, plan of packing in bodies
	A Demonstration Baby
	Representative Heights of Men
	Guide To Flying c1937, Mechanical Drawing
	Mapping the Ocean floor 1873-6 'Challenger"
	BATTLE PLANS

	HOW TO TIE A BOW TIE
	BRADMAN'S INNINGS
	AN AIR RAID WARDEN'S POST US 1948
	CINE LIGHTING, NILSEN, CINEMA AS A GRAPHIC MEDIUM
	MISE-EN-SCENE, THE BRAZEN HORSEMAN, NILSEN C1930
	A TENNIS COURT, VENICE 1555
	DROPS OF BLOOD FROM DIFFERENT HEIGHTS
	USING YOUR TORCH IN THE BLACKOUT
	VULNERABLE POINTS- A MODERN BATTLESHIP 1939

	SPANISH PATTERN BOOK 1640 diagram of cutting
	HORSE MEDICINE HIPPIATRA 1576
	MAKING CHARCOAL, Kramer 1766
	THE EMPEROR'S CHAMBER AUDIENCE 1729
	A NEW TYPE OF BEE-HIVE 1679
	BUSINESS MAN AS CORPORATE DIAGRAM, New Yorker
	ARCHITECTURE AND ALLIED DISCIPLINES, UNICORNUS 1561

	CORPORATE STRUCTURE, CARRICK 1949
	THE FUNERAL OF SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
	THE NARRATOR'S HOUSE from Flatland
	ANCIENT SHIPPING PARIS 1549
	REED'S SEAMANSHIP 1952 FLAGS AND LIGHTS
	MILTON'S HOROSCOPE DIAGRAM
	CLASSIFYING FLOWERS, LESTIBOUDOIS 1781
	RADIO TUNING DIAL

	CATCHING VERMIN c1725
	THE LACONIAN COUNTERMARCH Du Praissac 1642
	MILITARY TECHNOLOGY, an edition of Caesar's Commentaries Venice 1570, a battering ram
	TEACHING AND LEARNING, FORTUNE 1961
	CAR STOPPING SPEEDS 1920

ERNEST HAMLIN BAKER, The New Deal 1934

GROWTH IN READERSHIP (figures, Popular Fictioon Group)

 

Insignia

	PILOT CAP BADGE
	AVIATION CAP BADGES USA
	AIRFORCE MARKINGS PLANES, CORPORATE IDENTITY
	AVIATION, RAF 1927
	AIRLINE INSIGNIA JULY 1958
	AIRCRAFT MARKINGS 1927-1939, 1955

Communication

	CRYPTOGRAPHY
	HELIOGRAPH
	DISTRESSED CAMPERS
	SEMAPHORE
	AURAL CODE (MORSE)
	COMPONENTS AVALABILITY BOARD
	THE PATERAN, A ROMANY DIRECTIONAL CODE

	GETTING INFORMATION BY TORTURE, Venice 1669
	POLICE OF THE WORLD GESTICULATE

 

Maps and Location

	ARROW SHOWS YOU WHERE ...
	ARROW INDICATES SLEEPWALKER
	ANIMAL TRACKS
	CAVALRY MANOEUVERS, MALZO, 1611
	FORTS IN EUROPE, FORTUNE 1943
	WHERE KING CHARLES HID IN THE OAKTREE

 

Tabled information

SANDWICH BRIDGE TOLLS MARCH 2010

MILITARY TOMBS, CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL , DECORATIONS AND HONOURS

IDENTITY CARD, TAXI DRIVER, NEW YORK

Language

	PICTURE WRITING (Strand Magazine c1895)
	HIEROGLYPHIC BIBLE
	PREPOSITIONS
	PROOFREADERS' MARKS
	SHORTHAND
	QUARANTINE NOTICES 1962

 

DODGY graphs

	Sales Curves in California December 1953
	What Holds it up when He Lets Go? 1944 employment
	One of the World's most beautiful pictures November 1945

 

 

UNITS - MONEY, SHARES AND STAMPS

	TRADING STAMPS
	Railroad Bank Notes

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VISUAL LANGUAGES - THE MISCELLANY

(ORIGINAL SCREEN)

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men and charts

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SIMPLE TASKS

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