Designers and asylum seekers collaborated on the pictograms, which help ease communication in refugee camps. Last October, when refugees were arriving in droves in European cities from places like ...

On February 12, 2026, JAPAN HOUSE Los Angeles will open Pictograms: Iconic Japanese Designs, an immersive exploration of how the beauty and precision of Japanese design has shaped the art of visual ...

This post has been adapted from the original. Can you name all 24 events at the Winter Olympics at Pyeongchang from memory? Of course not, nobody can. But I bet you could do really well if I showed ...

Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd been a scientist, but he realized he wasn't very happy sitting at a lab bench all day. Science writing, ...

This summer, Japan House London opens its doors to a new exhibition centred around pictograms and Japanese design. Building on a project initiated by the Nippon Design Center in 2019 called Experience ...

At the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics, it became a hot topic that performers wearing special costumes expressed the competition in pictograms. A web app that anyone can become as ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Daigo has considered the history of the pictogram, tracing their origins right back to cave ...

Say you're in Tokyo and need to find a police station. If you weren't raised in Japan, you probably wouldn't know to scan your map for an "X." The symbol, meant to resemble crossed police batons, is ...

Today we look at pictograms, symbols that say a lot without any words. Let’s see how many of these communication icons make universal sense. A pictogram or pictograph is a symbol representing a ...

One breathtaking performance just transcended all language barriers at the Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony. When the capital of Japan first hosted the Olympics in 1964 — the first time the Games were ...