Fans of Ota's running man point to two key advantages: It's a pictogram, and it's green. The sign's wordlessness means it can be understood even by people who don't speak the local language.

The pictogram exit sign at the Sinclair Centre in Vancouver on Tuesday. Arlen Redekop/PNG Photo by Arlen Redekop / PNG. Article content. It may be Canada’s second-most iconic red sign, ...

Earlier this month we mentioned Mies Hora’s pictogram set for the MTA (featuring a new, international exit sign). Well, bad news for those, like Slate’s Julia Turner, hoping for the makeover ...

The standardised exit sign used almost everywhere in the world was designed by Yukio Ota in the 1970s. ... not run to the exit, signified by a pictogram of a figure evidently in the act of running.