The Icelandic Vegvísir (wayfinder) is a magical stave that helps you find your way home through rough weather. Oldest known example is from 1860.
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The logotype of Football Association of Iceland, designed by Brandenburg. It consists of a dragon, a bull, a griffin and a giant within a diamond shaped design. Read more.
Screenshots from Siggi Eggertsson’s new screensaver: Saver Screensson. It randomly stacks vector stencils in his characteristic geometrical mosaic style.
More Siggi on his website and Tumblr, and at text-mode.org.
Yup, this is text! By Mikey Freedom:
A little design experiment with mixing a Vegvisir – Aegishjalmur/Ægishjálmur & Ogham together, the Ogham spells out the name of my wife and 3 kids.
Works by Siggi Eggertsson. He’s been working with this textmodey illustration style for about a decade. Plenty more at Siggi Eggertsson dottt com.