OPINION: NEW RED CROSS SYMBOL

Two graphic desigers in New York applaud the International Committee of the Red Cross’s decision to adopt a third symbol for use in armed conflicts meant to demonstrate the charity’s neutrality in a column in Business Week. The symbol, a crystal that looks like a square tilted 45 degrees, is supposed to help ease hostility since the organization’s other two symbols—a cross and a crescent—are both associated with religion, the article says.