What I found most fascinating is how pictograms vividly reflect social change, with their forms evolving dramatically over ...

The easiest solution, Bauer and his team realized, was to design a set of icons that could be easily understood across cultural lines: a pictogram language. Instead of producing a single permanent ...

Pictograms: Iconic Japanese Designs is the latest exhibition at Japan House London, investigating the integral yet often ...

For example, there were some IQ groups (21 to 35 versus the 36 to 50) that were found to differ in their preference of pictograms as the position and directions of “stand in two lines” and ...

Researching modern pictograms on a worldwide basis, the team produced 34 distinct pictograms. By 1979, 16 more symbols were added to the system, which brought the total to 50, where it remains today.

The new pictograms, locally called chizukigou, are reminiscent of the symbols you see in public places like airports, malls, or zoos. Among the new symbols are a knife and fork to denote 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 ...