loader

“Disaster Prevention Pictogram”
pictogram design

Independent Research / Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University

The outcome of the design study for Disaster Prevention is the voluntary research project of GK Kyoto started after the Great Hanshin Awaji Earthquake. At the conference of IDNDR (International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction) held in Geneva, Swiss in 1999, Japan proposed Disaster Prevention Pictogram.
After having summarized “Tsunami pictogram system,” proposed it in and out of the nation, the design of “Tsunami warning” pictogram became the prototype of ISO pictogram. (Kyoto)

Tag

Credit

(JA) 共同:京都大学防災研究所

Related Works

Designing for Essential Values