These minimalist pictograms hilariously describe a plot of seven classic books. They were designed by Matteo Civaschi and Gianmarco Milesi from a Milan-based design and advertising studio H-57.
Pictograms are a part of the book Life in Five Seconds, which takes almost 250 inventions, places, animals, books, or world events, and “cuts away all the useless details”.
H-57 has also created a new set of pictograms, this time all about movies. Over 150 pictures are included in a new book Film in Five Seconds, which will be published on November 7, and is already available for pre-order.
Thanks to Núria Càrcamo Bonet who pointed us to the post on HuffPo Books that selected all book-related pictograms.
7 classic books in pictograms
Frankenstein – Mary Shelley.
Moby-Dick – Herman Melville.
Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe.
Romeo and Juliet – William Shakespeare.
The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka.
The Odyssey – Homer.
Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë.
