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)
Book from the Ground is a novel written in a “language of icons” that I have been collecting and organizing over the last few years. Regardless of cultural background, one should be able understand the text as long as one is thoroughly entangled in modern life. (Xu Bing)
via BB
“Pictograms - those simple signs or icons that relay their information effortlessly. Weâre surrounded by thousands of them every day, and PingMag took graphic designer Kazuhisa Yamamoto a.k.a. Donny Grafiks for a walk around Tokyoâs streets picking up some favourites. After his presentation of pictogram designs at last yearâs DesignTide we knew he was the right man for the job.”
PingMag presents Tokyo in pictograms.
via jeansnow.net
“BOCOG released the Pictograms of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games on the occasion of the 2-year countdown to the opening of the Games.”
