Bahrain-based art director Faraz Manzoor has come up with an interesting project that features names of countries visualized as icons + letters. The phonetic pronunciation of the icons combined with a few letters of the country name completes the riddle.
This clever technique is known as a rebus, where pictures, symbols, and letters are used to phonetically or visually represent words or phrases, challenging viewers to decode their meaning.
For example, the letters TUR + a key icon = TURKEY. The fin of a shark + LAND = Finland. A bell icon + GIUM = Belgium. Faraz used Adobe Illustrator to create these typo-icons. Check out the project below. How many can you guess correctly?
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