Sue Perks

Sue is a UK based archival researcher, writer and designer with a particular interest in Isotype, Henry Dreyfuss’s work with symbols and how archives connect with each other. She is currently writing a series of blog posts ‘Signs of the Times’ to support the ‘Give Me a Sign: The Language of Symbols’ exhibition for Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York, based on her research in the Henry Dreyfuss Symbol Sourcebook Archive. In 2022 she co-founded The Symbol Group www.symbol-group.org. Their second conference ‘Symbol ’24: Icons for Society’ takes place on 19/20 September 2024.

Can Unicode learn from experimental symbol classification methods from the 1950s?