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“The French and Italians have nicknamed it the ‘snail.’ The Norwegians have plumped for ‘pig’s tail,’ the Germans ‘monkey’s tail,’ and the Chinese ‘little mouse.’ The Russians think of it as a dog, and the Finns as a slumbering cat.”
I saw this story pop up last week, but didn’t give it a second thought. Finding this NYTimes article alerted me to the significance of the @ symbol’s inclusion in MoMA’s architecture and design collection.
The symbol to the right is indeed an @ symbol, but not necessarily what you’ll see in MoMA’s collection. It’s the symbol in Emigre’s FellaPartsToo.
