I not too long ago visited the Pictograms exhibition on the Japan Middle in London. On the coronary heart of this exhibition had been quite a few icons designed by the Nippon Design Middle, Inc., a famend Tokyo-based design studio.
In the present day’s 30DayMapChallenge theme is Icons, and my first thought was: how may I make the most of Nippon Design Middle’s lovely Tokyo tourism icons? I already had an animated map of Tokyo exhibiting a practice touring across the Yamanote Line, with every station’s melody enjoying because the practice arrives. For this problem, I merely wanted so as to add Nippon Design Middle, Inc. pictograms for the practice stations, in addition to their icons for a few of Tokyo’s most well-known landmarks.
These pictograms had been designed as a part of the EXPERIENCE JAPAN PICTOGRAMS venture, a novel set of visible symbols developed to boost the tourism expertise for folks of all cultures and ages. The pictograms are easy and intuitive, making it straightforward for anybody to know every icon at a look. They had been created to type a part of the essential infrastructure for tourism in Japan, combining performance and aesthetics to assist as many guests as potential.
I encourage you to discover the Pictograms in full. There are numerous extra that I may have added to my map of Tokyo – but it surely’s Friday night time, and I’m performed mapping for now!
