Developing the pictograms for the Olympics is a dream for every designer. A dream that most likely will never become reality. Instead you end up doing toilet icons. This is a brief look into a neglected niche of graphic design.

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Japanese pictograms for chinese food chain. Works of Masaaki Hiromura. View the rest of this entry »

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Pictogram Channel is a japanese pictogram collection from Yoichi Kobayashi a Tokyo based web director. Enjoy!

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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