In the business world, it isn’t enough to just create a smart product. You also need a super-smart business model. Case in point: the Noun Project, an online icon collective of more than 30,000 ...

Pop quiz: who designed the instantly-recognizable, universal symbol for “recycle”? Yeah, we didn’t know either — until we consulted The Noun Project, a brilliant site that’s part design utility, part ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

While I doubt that the Noun Project, an effort to make a free library of icons representing every common concept out there, will have a profound impact on your everyday life, it’s a useful service ...