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 ...
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, ...
The Paris 2024 Olympic Games are fast approaching, and design controversies continue to follow the preparations at every stage. After all the jokes about the logo design and the mascots, the ...
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 ...
The design of materials and handouts is a problem, but Mr. Dayama of Topecon Heroes, the creator of ' Balloon Design ', said, 'If you want to go home early, let's finish the work quickly and go home.' ...
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 ...
Sometimes, how the information is presented is as important as the information itself. Graphics, icons, and pictograms are increasingly popular methods of presenting information to consumers in direct ...
The Opening Ceremony included many memorable moments -- some somber, others inspiring -- but few were as purely fun as the human pictogram performance. What, do tell, is a "human pictogram performance ...