Many people still ask me, “Where the hell did you get the idea for Mikons?”
I am a cyclist, I am a hack, but I love it. While watching Lance Armstrong’s last year in the Tour De France (before he came back in 2009) I noticed that his his time-trial bike’s disk wheel with small icons that represented his life journey. Lance then described the meaning of each of the icons. Those symbols spoke something, even beyond the words that Lance used to describe them.
The power of the story that those symbols gripped me. I have always been fascinated with the ability of art to communicate beyond words. Icons do it with eloquent economy. Nike commissioned Futura, a storied graffiti artist, to make some 40 icons that told a story of Lance’s heroic life.
What if there was a website where people make icons and symbols that had meaning to them? Could icons be a new way for people to connect and communicate? I thought so then, and I think so now. Join me in make the sublime connections that symbols have been doing for mankind since the beginning of time.
Try Mikons.comto make your own mikons and MikonMixers.com to make iconic conversation starters at parties and networking events.
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Comment by mike — July 14, 2009 @ 3:16 am