Did you know...

... that the standard "emergency exit" sign was designed by a Japanese designer – Yukio Ota – in the 1970s?

One for those trivia moments. Online magazine Slate has the article here.

Update on March 31: I remembered sitting with my mother maybe more than 15 years ago in a museum in London. Perhaps the signs were still fairly new globally at that time. Or maybe my mother was having a (early) "senior moment". She said, "Is that an emergency exit sign?" I said yes. She said, "For a moment I thought there was a meeting of athletes and it was a sign for that."

Just shows, even the seemingly clear in design might take a moment to filter into the consciousness!