Over 50 years since pictograms were first used at the Tokyo 1964 Olympics, Japanese designer Masaaki Hiromura has created 50 new symbols ahead of next year’s event In 1964, Japan took to the world ...

A pictogram uses pictures or symbols to represent data or information. Each picture represents a number of items, making the data clear and easy to read. The title of the pictogram tells us what ...

Understanding the construction and interpretation of pictograms. Gordon the Crow is in charge of the bird table. One day he runs out of nuts. The stock is low and he cannot work out what is needed ...

The pictograms for the Glasgow Commonwealth Games in 2014 were unveiled last week by studio Tangent Graphic. Using the concentric rings of the 2014 logo, the symbols reference the “decisive moment” of ...