People with intellectual disabilities rely on pictograms in public spaces to circumvent their difficulty understanding textual information. Pictograms in public places are support tools for ...

But at the Paris Olympics, newly designed sports pictograms look less like public signage and more like something you’d find tourists puzzling over at the Pompidou.

The History of the Olympic Pictograms: How Designers Hurdled the Language Barrier Infographic design first appeared at the Olympics in 1948, when the games were last in London Sarah C. Rich July ...

Sound Transit uses "pictograms" to identify transit stations for people who don't read languages that use the Roman alphabet. They're also easier to recall even if you do read printed station ...

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.

Japan's role in progressing this type of visual language is undeniable, from the standards set for sporting pictograms in 1964, to the Japanese term 'emoji' being used to describe digital pictograms.

As we saw in the 2021 Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony and its fun display of these pictograms, Masaaki Hiromura and the other artists who created the pictograms achieved their goal and then some.

His poster series makes extensive use of pictograms to illustrate songs and lyrics of some of pop music’s most memorable acts. Hertz crafted each and every pictogram–234 in all–for the project.

Do you want to create a society through design where people with and without disabilities can live together as they are? Prof Mao Kudo of the Department of Media Design hopes that her research ...

Infographic design first appeared at the Olympics in 1948, when the games were last in London Sarah C. Rich Pictograms for the 1964 Tokyo Olympic, designed by Katsumi Masaru (image: Virtual ...