For more information about this research, see "Graphic Design of Pictograms Focusing on the Comprehension of People with Intellectual Disabilities – The Next Step in Standardization: Pictogram ...

In 1964, the Tokyo games took pictogram design to the next level by creating a complete system of typography, colors and symbols that would be applied across Olympic communications platforms.

Joachim Roncin, director of design at Paris 2024, said the design team deliberately took a different approach to the symbols.“With the phone, I mean everybody knows where to go,” he said ...

Sep 03, 2010 20:00:01 Pictogram of the Olympic Games from 1964 to 2012, which is a reference for design. Since it was a situation at that time that it was difficult to communicate in English at ...

Playing off the design and philosophy of the Tokyo 1964 pictograms, designer Masaaki Hiromura and his team spent two years trying to achieve this, and as you can tell, they pulled it off beautifully.

Not surprisingly, Allen was inspired by the grandfather of pictogram design, Otl Aicher, who designed the 1972 Munich Olympic icons and inspired a veritable revolution in visual communication.

Help design pictograms for new Sound Transit stations By AUBREY COHEN , SEATTLEPI.COM STAFF March 31, 2014 Pictograms representing Sound Transit Link light rail and Mexico City Metro stations.

30 July 2025 – 9 November 2025. Mount Fuji from Experience Japan Pictograms (c) Nippon Design Centre. Simple but powerful, the humble pictogram has become an indispensable, global communication ...

With her paper published in Visual Language, she set out to clarify the elements of graphic design in pictograms that make them easy for people with intellectual disabilities to understand.