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 ...

The standardised exit sign used almost everywhere in the world ... by this symbol designed centuries later. Ota’s running man has infiltrated en masse these otherwise precisely curated spaces ...

With every new building that gets the go-ahead in Ontario, the familiar red signs that read "exit" in English or "sortie" in French are one step closer to disappearing for good. Those signs are ...