This take on the exit sign goes by the informal name "the running man," and looks like this: Fans of Ota's running man point to two key advantages: It's a pictogram, and it's green. The sign's ...

In the late 1970s, the Japanese fire safety commission in a contest for a new national emergency exit sign selected the running-man design by Yukio Ota. He used green, the colour of “go,” as ...

With every new building that gets the go-ahead in Ontario, the familiar red signs that read "exit ... of green pictographs showing a silhouetted person, nicknamed the "running man," making ...