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 ...

This Aztec pictogram depicts warriors drowning as a temple burns in the background. New research links the scene to a 1507 earthquake. Courtesy of Gerardo Suárez and Virginia García-Acosta A ...

Icons tend to be functional rather than something I warm to. Personally speaking, the only system of icons I regard with fondness were to be found on the beautiful, intricate instructions for Airfix ...

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 names, ...

Fukuoka, Japan - 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 ...

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 ...

There is a new feature on Rottweiler Straße in Stuttgart-Vaihingen: a so-called pictogram chain has been applied to the road surface. It comprises twelve bicycle traffic pictograms and extends a few ...