BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: Now, “writing” religious icons. In the Orthodox Christian tradition, icons are said to be written, not painted. The Orthodox consider making icons more a form of prayer than art ...

To the designer Susan Kare, designing icons was about solving ‘the little puzzle of making an image fit a metaphor’. Forty years later, that challenge remains.

Orthodox Christians consider writing icons to be a significant and scared form of prayer. In the Orthodox Christian tradition, icons are said to be written, not painted. The Orthodox consider making ...