“The Natalie and James Thompson Art Gallery located within San Jose State University is hosting an amazing exhibition of graphic design by the office of Otl Aicher for the 1972 Munich Olympics. The exhibition features, posters, books, brochures and signage conceived for the 1972 Olympic identity program”  Dave

The exhibition runs August 26 to September 26, 2008
For more information: visit the exhibition website.

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“The visual identity set in place at Cologne Bonn Airport presents a recognizable and specific airport.  It is more than just a surface signature - it is a visual echo of the airport’s own individuality.” Toan Vu-Huu

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Cool Japan is a TV show about Japanese culture from the view points of foreigners living in Japan. In these clips they talk about their favoutites of japanese signs and it’s “mascot culture” . (mostly in Japanese)

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“French researchers have developed a new iconic drug information system inspired by road signs. This icon system is named VCM, short for ?Visualisation des Connaissances Médicales? in French, which means ?Visualization of Medical Knowledge.? Like road signs, the VCM graphical language uses a small set of graphical signs. The current dictionary contains about 130 pictograms displayed in 5 colors.”

A new iconic drug information system inspired by road signs
Road signs for physicians
via infosthetics