International Icon
Tarot reimagined using international airport and public signage symbols universally.
by Robin Ator · 2004
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The record
The International Icon Tarot could be classified as a Rider-Waite Tarot clone, but with a significant difference: the imagery of the International Icon Tarot is based on signage. International pictograms: the kind of signage seen at airports and on toilet doors. These Tarot cards are universal, featuring humans in all the normal places and poses but without differentiating between race, gender, clothing, age, facial expression or other cues. While none are obviously or specifically men or women, some are shaped to suggest one gender. The King of Pentacles is broad of shoulder; the Queen of Pentacles has a chest, while one of the couple in the Two of Pentacles has a distinctly female silhouette and a nipped-in waist. Some accessories also remain, such as the blindfold on Justice and the Two and Eight of Swords, and the crowns on the Kings and Queens The template for this deck is the Rider-Waite, and it follows its outline, titles and structure closely. In detail, however, the occult and esoteric symbols and connotations have been removed. The familiar art has become more abstract and lost its black outlines its reminiscent to me of coloured paper collages. The lack of extraneous
The cards
