WFF Youth Action Assembly: Foodicons - a new visual language for food

The global pandemic has highlighted the need for worldwide coordination on food security, equity, and transparency, and has also demonstrated that our current food systems do not effectively communicate with one another. Against this backdrop, in December 2020 Adobe, The Lexicon, and The Noun Project launched the International Foodicons Challenge: a series of global design challenges to develop a shared, open-source, and royalty-free iconographic language of food.

Using a style guide specifically developed by Adobe for the challenge, designers from nearly 90 countries are designing hundreds of terms selected by the Foodicon’s international committee of food experts on subjects ranging from biodiversity to regenerative agriculture, true cost accounting to food waste.

This initiative will improve global food literacy and promote transparency in the food system, while offering a significant step towards cooperation between farmers, food producers, retailers, and consumers as the world comes together to strengthen the food system. Organizations and professionals will be able to use the royalty-free, open-source icons to effectively communicate with each other and the public.

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ABOUT THE WORLD FOOD FORUM
The WFF is an independent global network of partners, created for and led by youth to spark a movement to transform our global food systems and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including “zero hunger”. It features a range of interactive online events and activities about cooking, education, film, innovation, music, and policy.