Universal flood symbol created by Stanford Rosenthal

A flood symbol created by Levees.org website designer Stanford Rosenthal is now a universal icon.

Chosen for its clarity, the symbol was created through Iconathon, an initiative to collaboratively design new civic symbols for the public domain.

The very first Iconathon took place in San Francisco and was focused on creating new public domain civic symbols for 311, or non-emergency city services.

Iconothon is a collaboration between Code for America and the Noun Project. In August and September 2011, a half dozen cities across the US participated in a series of design charrettes – day long collaborative workshops to create the symbols.

Click here for more about  Iconathon.