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 ...

Today we look at pictograms, symbols that say a lot without any words. Let’s see how many of these communication icons make universal sense. A pictogram or pictograph is a symbol representing a ...

Fukuoka, Japan - Do you want to create a society through design where people with and without disabilities can live together as they are? Prof Mao Kudo of the Department of Media Design hopes that her ...

It was the portion of the Opening Ceremony that many were talking about, and no, it wasn’t the lighting of the torch. Toward the end of Friday’s ceremony to open the Summer Olympics in Tokyo, the ...

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 ...

The Codex Telleriano Remensis, created in the 16th century in Mexico, depicts earthquakes in pictograms that are the first written evidence of earthquakes in the Americas in pre-Hispanic times, ...

The 16-month project began with designers researching each sport before creating the first strokes by hand. These were then reconstructed on a computer, fitting the contours of the letters. The ...

A 50-page codex of colorful, complex pictograms that dates to the early 16th century includes the most complete — and one of the oldest — written chronologies of early earthquakes in the Americas.

Pierre Gouzou of France competes during the men's trampoline finals, high above the trampoline gymnastics pictogram. (Morry Gash/AP) Warning: This graphic requires ...