Editing Pictogram (section)

== Modern uses ==
An early modern example of the extensive use of pictograms may be seen in the map in the London suburban timetables of the [[London and North Eastern Railway]], 1936–1947, designed by [[George Dow]], in which a variety of pictograms was used to indicate facilities available at or near each station.  Pictograms remain in common use today, serving as pictorial, representational signs, instructions, or statistical diagrams. Because of their graphical nature and fairly realistic style, they are widely used to indicate public toilets, or places such as airports and train stations.  Because they are a concise way to communicate a concept to people who speak many different languages, pictograms have also been used extensively at the [[Olympics]] since the [[1964 Summer Olympics|1964 summer games]] in Tokyo featured designs by {{Interlanguage link|Masaru Katsumi|fr}}. Later Olympic pictograms have been redesigned for each set of games.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://pages.uncc.edu/visualrhetoric/projects/illustration-video/olympic-pictograms/|work=Visual Rhetoric|title=Olympic Pictograms|first1=C. Justin|last1=Hall|first2=Zachary|last2=Allen}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://mediamadegreat.com/olympic-pictograms/|title=Olympic Pictograms: Design through History|work=MediaMadeGreat.com|date=16 August 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://1stmuse.com/pictograms/|title=Olympic Games Pictograms|website=1stMuse.com|editor-first=John Jan|editor-last=Popovic}}</ref>

Pictographic writing as a modernist poetic technique is credited to [[Ezra Pound]], though [[French language|French]] [[surrealism|surrealists]] credit the [[Pacific Northwest]] [[Native Americans in the United States|American Indians]] of [[Alaska]] who introduced writing, via [[totem pole]]s, to [[North America]].<ref>Reed 2003, p. xix</ref>

Contemporary artist [[Xu Bing]] created Book from the Ground, a universal language made up of pictograms collected from around the world. A Book from the Ground chat program has been exhibited in museums and galleries internationally.

[[Emojis]] are a type of pictogram.