So I started to draw these really simple, cranes and trains and sequoias and all these silly things, and I found out that I still really enjoy drawing them.
If something captivates you as a kid, there’s a very intrinsic reason. Then I had the idea to draw the things that used to really fascinate me as a child. It sounds like the Noun Project was born out of a personal obsession of sorts – can you tell me about that?Įdward: I’ve always done a lot of sketches of all kinds of different concepts, buildings, and objects, and I kind of just got bored of what I was drawing. New symbols are submitted daily by designers around the world, and the Noun Project team recently crowdsourced the translation of its library into 25 languages.We spoke with Edward and Sofya by phone about the childhood fixation that sparked the idea for their visual archive, the struggles of launching a start-up without any experience, and the unexpected rewards of seeing your project take on a life of its own. So simple it seems obvious, and so useful you can’t believe it didn’t exist before.įounded by the husband-and-wife team of Edward Boatman and Sofya Polyakov, along with designer Scott Thomas, The Noun Project launched in 2010 with a catalog of a few hundred icons and has since grown by leaps and bounds. (We say, “I should have thought of that!”) The Noun Project, a growing library of free, downloadable icons symbolizing objects and concepts, feels like one of those ideas. The best ideas, like the best song lyrics, feel familiar from the moment we encounter them.
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