A page of a 15th-century Bible from Yemen is ornamented by a star-in-a-circle emblem composed of passages from the Book of Psalms.
At times, Bubbles reads distinctly like one of those poetic, rigorous and slightly mad essays that posits a single form as pseudo-scientific key to all mythologies and mores: Emerson's essay on "Circles" ("the highest emblem in the cipher of the world") or Sir Thomas Browne's "The Garden of Cyrus", in which the 17th-century physician spies a five-pointed "quincunx" everywhere in nature.
A circle icon with the BlackBerry emblem will appear on your desktop.
On April 17, voters will choose between the current standard, which features the battle flag in the upper left corner, and a new flag that replaces the emblem with concentric circles of stars on a blue background.
Over the last few weeks it has begun blanketing Washington — via buses, street banners, newspapers, even coasters in bars and restaurants — with an advertising campaign that relies on the motif of a circle, trying to make a friendly brand emblem out of its sometimes intimidating round, near-windowless building, designed by Gordon Bunshaft.
The retirement of his United Parcel Service emblem caused consternation in design circles.
But the M.C.'s of early hip-hop took the verb in a new direction, transforming the microphone (abbreviated in rap circles as mic, not mike) into an emblem of stylish display.
After some initial official discomfort about the work's frank sexual innuendos, Orff's cantata was elevated to the status of a signature piece in Nazi circles, where it was treated as an emblem of Third Reich "youth culture".
Basically these are still lifes; undramatic, domestic, emblems of circling time.
Chief among them is the quincunx, an interwoven pattern of a central circle flowing continuously into four smaller surrounding circles, an emblem of eternity.
The emblem of the Royal Canadian Air Cadets consists of a circle surrounded by a wreath of maple leaves, superimposed with a flying falcon, the head to the sinister (left).
