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A gable stone in the village of Batenburg, Netherlands depicting a visual pun: Batenburg (Dutch for "profit castle") is shown as a castle turning silver coins into more valuable gold coins, thus creating profit.
A visual pun is a pun involving an image or images (in addition to or instead of language), often based on a rebus.
Visual puns in which the image is at odds with the inscription are common in cartoons such as Lost Consonants or The Far Side as well as in Dutch gable stones. For instance, a gable stone in the village of Batenburg puns on the words baten (‘to profit’) and burg (‘castle’) by depicting silver coins becoming gold in a castle.
European heraldry contains the technique of canting arms, which can be considered punning.
but mean your mother." The recursive pun "Immanuel doesn't pun, he Kant", is attributed to Oscar Wilde. Visualpuns are sometimes used in logos, emblems...
represent the bearer's name (or, less often, some attribute or function) in a visualpun or rebus. The expression derives from the latin cantare (to sing). French...
telegraph line and connect most of the British colonies in Africa. It is a visualpun based on the Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient...
a portmanteau of Wookiee and encyclopedia, a pun on the name of Wikipedia. The logo, too, is a visualpun showing the incomplete second Death Star as opposed...
style, which spells a name via a rebus, as a form of Japanese wordplay or visualpun. Today they are most often seen in corporate logos or product logos. These...
vanitas) titled All Is Vanity. The drawing employs a double image (or visualpun) in which the scene of a woman admiring herself in a mirror of her vanity...
observation. Most ambigrams are visual palindromes that rely on some kind of symmetry, and they can often be interpreted as visualpuns. The term was coined by...
days than the original series' 21-day challenge. The XL title plays as a visualpun for the title, as it also represents the Roman numeral for 40. Each survivalist...
using any spoken words, which requires some conventional gestures. Puns and visualpuns were and remain common. A charade was a form of literary riddle popularized...
knows quite well what a dactyl is, and gives the finger. The gesture is a visualpun on the two meanings of the Greek word daktylos, both "finger" and the...
humour once angered Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin, when Hipgnosis created a visualpun based on "(tennis) racquet"/"(noise) racket" for the album Houses of the...
rebus, derived from the game of the same name Emoji Verbal arithmetic Visualpun Boutell, Charles, Heraldry Historical & Popular, London, 1863, pp. 117–120...
the White House, but Las Vegas was more in keeping with the theme and visualpun of convicts "cashing in". "We got very lucky ... The Sands was going to...
Twenty Committee gained its name from the Roman numeral XX (twenty), a visualpun on the phrase "double cross". American planners favoured either a cross-channel...
with Hollywood Boulevard turned into a desert leading to the apparent visualpun of the Hollywood Sign Jell-O mold "dessert". At left, Frederick's of Hollywood...
Tower of Babel". The company's green bubble-shaped logo is therefore a visualpun on the name as well as a reference to Babelgum's interest in ecological...
style, which spells a name via a rebus, as a form of Japanese wordplay or visualpun. Today they are most often seen in corporate logos or product logos. Monograms...
manuscript of his Speculum Historiale, contains an actual convex mirror as a visualpun. French translation by Jean de Vignay, Bruges, c. 1478–1480, for Edward...
Example of a corporate seal. In this case, the word "seal" is also used as visualpun: an image of the marine animal of the same name appears on the device...
television series). He used to wear an Indian feather headdress as a visualpun on Chief, and in later strips wore a hat with a flashing blue light on...
of the show drove a signature Suzuki Esteem with mismatched doors, a visualpun reflecting Jimmy's poor self-esteem. While arriving at and departing from...
did not include it. Its presence in the painting has been viewed as a visualpun on the word "nightmare" and a self-conscious reference to folklore—the...
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