Japanese team created nearly two dozen simple, clean, and easy to understand pictograms that helped lead athletes and spectators to events and around the Olympic grounds. Pictograms Have Gone On ...

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 ...

in Japanese, a word used prior to the design of pictograms) were for the first time designed for the Olympic Games, embodying at the same time Baron deCoubertinʼs aspirations of universalism ...

See our ethics statement. The official pictograms for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics were revealed this past week as Japan marked 500 days until the summer games. Designed by Masaaki Hiromura ...

Japan has played an important role in the development of pictograms, with designers from the Nippon Design Center creating the first full set of sporting pictograms in 1964 for the Tokyo Olympic ...

But at the Paris Olympics, newly designed sports pictograms look less like public ... faced with a flood of visitors who wouldn’t know Japanese, designers under the direction of Katsumi Masaru ...

Simple but powerful, the humble pictogram has become an indispensable, global communication tool, visible on everything from maps and street signs to text messages and dashboards. Japan's role in ...

Japan House London announces its forthcoming exhibition, Pictograms: Iconic Japanese Designs opening on Wednesday 30 July 2025. Pictograms are everywhere; on street signs and in text messages ...