After reading the excerpts it expresses that language is comprised of a system, of spoken or written sounds, symbols, including the use of words in a fundamental and conventional way. It is stated in the reading that language is not arbitrary but contains a form of logic. This mean that language is not random it is comprise of a whole reasoning and thought process that goes beyond what meets the eye. Throughout the ages language has work hand in hand with time to depict the transformation and shift. Language is both traditional and conventional, each word has meaning and components that is a part of the system. With each word developing its meaning exclusively from its distinction from the system. Every single word could mean something or anything. As a result, it causes “a shift in the relationship between the signified and the signifier” as expressed in the readings. Language is radically incapable of shielding itself against the forces that change the relationship between the signified and the signifier from one moment to the next. This is among the arbitrary existence that has created. Over time language transform, became clear, universal and used daily by all.

Nevertheless, the Lupton-Miller readings express how communication came about. In these essays, it indicates the relationship between language, writing, numbers, hieroglyphs, and dreams. With the combination of language, it created a new shift. Changing how language is being perceived. Thus, creating communication. Communication is conveyed as the exchange of a given message or information from one individual to the next, either spoken or unspoken. Mostly focusing on the message itself. While many would believe that language is communication and that there is no difference. Since we are conversing with one another over the same median.  However, they are not the same the big difference is language is a tool that contains a system between two or more people who are interacting.  Communication is the message of the experience that we witness.

As designers we use visual language to communicate with our users. This is where language and visual elements are combined to help users understand and comprehend visible signs and elements. In other words it is the use of visual symbols rather than verbal symbols. In the short essay “Modern Hieroglyphics” we see how these icons and symbols were used to bring across the given message.  Many icons and symbols took the form of the given word and this created a mean of communication. It became standardize across the world as an automatic visual language that we all understand. One icon can correspond to a word or phrase. As  result, there was no need to always write or speak things out a simple image will do the trick. In language symbols work hand in hand to convey linguistic and social meaning.  Using linguistic as unit like words. This relation opens a channel that gives designers a more greater field to explore, mix, match and combine things. For examples in logo creation an icon or symbol can be used as a brand image.  Posters, flyers and other print media no longer be heavily text based. This makes graphic communication more easier, understandable and not complex. It makes art speaks where words can’t.

In conclusion, the design process expresses how language transgress from verbal to nonverbal. We once started out as speaking out everything, followed by writing. Which was very graphic, classified as visual representation. To the rise of symbols and icons to speak as a universal language. In the archaic number system, it depicts the evolution of the number system from being ambiguous. With random tally marks, to counters, to abacus, to a standard notion of 0’s and 1’s.  This is the same process language, went through, with many new paths created and the traditional ways slowly disappearing.