The offical site

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“The idea would be that a simple application would pull headlines from the BBC News website, or any website, and seperate the headline into individual words. It would then check a database to see if there is a pictogram associated with that word and display it. This would loop for all words until the headline is complete. If there is no pictogram for the word available, then it will just display the word and update an online list that symbols for word ‘X’ are needed.”  Designing the News

Headlines with pictograms
Outdoor pictogram headlines

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Olympukes, designed by Jonathan Barnbrook as an antidote to the hyper-commercialism of the 2004 summer Olympics, is a free download from his site VirusFonts.com.

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“England is an old country. Coming from Southamerica, when most human populations are growing, the common sign on the street is for drivers to be aware of the kids. From a southamerican perspective this old people traffic sign is too weird.”
Origin: Europe, UK, Norwich by elkrusty, (full size)

“A wonderfully weird sign next to a stone lion outside the British Museum.”
Origin: UK, London by secondexpress, (full size)