For 14 years, The Artist Formerly Known As "The Artist Formerly Known As Prince" — who was born with the name Prince Rogers Nelson — was merely known by his first name: Prince. Starting with his 1978 ...

So many of the symbols and icons we use every day are learned without ever knowing the meanings behind them. We just go about our days, pressing and clicking on buttons, without a second thought — and ...

People who identify as non-binary reject the concept of gender as, well, binary. For non-binary people, the world isn’t divided into just male or female. Instead, they view gender as a spectrum in ...

Somewhere in interstellar space a supernova formed the Love Symbol. The year was 1982 and Prince was exploding into the realms of American popular culture. Ten years later, he'd go on to adopt the ...

With radiating waves, a skull and crossbones and a running person, a new ionizing radiation warning symbol is being introduced to supplement the traditional international symbol for radiation, the ...

You may be familiar with the transgender flag, a five-striped flag consisting of the colors pink, blue, and white that is used by the trans community as a symbol of pride. But there is another ...

Here are two sides to the same story everyone's heard about Prince Rogers Nelson, who died Thursday at 57. You know the first; it's something of a legend. In 1993, Prince changed his name to a glyph.

The swastika is now an infamous sign of hatred, extremism, and genocide. But it has a long history and has been used by cultures worldwide to signify good fortune and luck. Carlsberg and Finnish Air ...

After first appearing in the religious art of ancient Iran, the disc halo migrated across cultures at an astonishing pace, aided by trade on the Silk Roads. Matt Wilson explores how a simple symbol ...