Designers and asylum seekers collaborated on the pictograms, which help ease communication in refugee camps. Last October, when refugees were arriving in droves in European cities from places like ...

This summer, Japan House London opens its doors to a new exhibition centred around pictograms and Japanese design. Building on a project initiated by the Nippon Design Center in 2019 called Experience ...

Say you're in Tokyo and need to find a police station. If you weren't raised in Japan, you probably wouldn't know to scan your map for an "X." The symbol, meant to resemble crossed police batons, is ...

It was the portion of the Opening Ceremony that many were talking about, and no, it wasn’t the lighting of the torch. Toward the end of Friday’s ceremony to open the Summer Olympics in Tokyo, the ...

As the Olympic Games begin in Tokyo, participants face a familiar challenge. Athletes, officials and staff arriving from all over the world need to be able to find their way around without a common ...

The sports showcased in an Olympiad rarely change, but the pictograms depicting them do. The symbols, designed to instantly communicate the essence of a sport, are in some ways quite literal. Cycling ...

Pictograms for the 1964 Tokyo Olympic, designed by Katsumi Masaru (image: Virtual Olympic Games Museum) Of all the instances in which graphic communication is necessary to transcend language barriers, ...