Lately I've been working on a pictographic system, i.e. a writing system using symbols to describe words.
This system isn't designed for any language in particular; idelaly, it can suit any language.
This is an example:
Woah, bigger than I thought. Also, ignore the watermark (from an Italian insurance company), it was on the other side of the sheet I wrote/drew this on.
Here's some sort of explanation about what's written (drawn?) in it:
-The parentheses actually represent shaking, and they enclose a hand. Thus, that symbol means "hello".
-The upside-down T has its flat part oriented towards who's speaking, thus it means "I" or "me".
-The <= indicates possession.
-The stickman is... well, a man, and the symbol next to it is supposed to represent an ID-card, so it means "identification for a man", or rather, "name".
-The equal sign means "equals" as well as "is"; it's only used when it's actual equivalence though (not when something is placed somewhere, for example).
What follows is a featural phonetic alphabet where a square with a dot in the middle represents a vowel, everything else is a consonant, and the signs below add further information about the symbols. Basically, I spelled my name, Alessio /a'lεssjo/. The 2 over the symbol for S indicates gemination; it can be a 3 for languages that use overlong consonants (or vowels).
-The plus sign means "and".
-What follows is then again "my", then you have a heart plus a building - thus, home.
-The part in the circle is quite interesting. Circling something has the same function of the prepositions "at" and "by", but what's in it is the real deal. The upper part represents a person near to a flag (representing a state), so that means "Republic". Below that, you have the symbols for "long" and for "shoe"... a boot. The Boot Republic... Italy.
I could go on forever, since this text is quite long, but why don't you try to figure out the meaning yourselves?
Here it is for those of you who don't feel like it:
Spoiler:
I got the idea from an old iOS messaging app that was entirely based on pictograms/emojis, although I can't remember the name now.
If you have any suggestion, go ahead and write them!