Culture & context
Design a Personal Sigil: An Original Geometric Emblem
Turn a focused creative brief into an original personal emblem without inventing a history or promising effects.
Symbol Map Lab / tag collection
Visual taxonomy
Organize symbols by form, function, and documented relationships without conflating those categories.
A connected reading path.
Visual taxonomy is the organizing layer of a symbol collection. The articles here show how to choose a scope, use stable identifiers, and explain why entries belong together. A shape family is not automatically a meaning family: record whether a connection is based on geometry, a project assignment, or an identified source. This distinction applies to a hand-built reference as well as an AI-assisted first draft.
Field notes in this collection
Visual systems
What Is a Symbol Map? A Practical Guide to Visual Taxonomy
Build a useful symbol map with clear labels, documented relationships, and a manageable research scope.
AI & design
AI Symbol Maps: A Human-Led Research Workflow
Use AI to propose groups and labels while keeping observation, evidence, and human review separate.
Put the reading into practice