Henry Dreyfuss's Lost (and Found) Symbol Sourcebook

With Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol flying off bookstore shelves, we got to thinking about lesser known symbols, those that are usually recognized only within specific disciplines or have been lost to the ages. Famed industrial designer (and symbol junkie) Henry Dreyfuss and his staff once assembled a database of 20,000 symbols that served as raw material for the Symbol Sourcebook. Originally published in 1972 and now available from Wiley, the book still lives up to its subtitle—”An Authoritative Guide to International Graphic Symbols”—and comes complete with a wacky foreword by Buckminster Fuller.

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