What’s In a Name?

What’s In a Name?

The design of the Love Symbol itself had appeared early in Prince’s career, first on the cover of 1999 as a decoration on the first “9” and then notably in still-rudimentary form as a decoration for the purple motorcycle he rode in Purple Rain. The...
How Prince Communicated through Symbols

How Prince Communicated through Symbols

What’s particularly surprising about Prince’s adoption of a symbol as his identity is the fact that he had a love affair with words — and yet he eschewed words by choosing an unpronounceable symbol as his name. Arlene Oak, associate professor in...

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