Perus­ing my June issue of Metrop­o­lis, I learned that New York City’s Museum of Mod­ern Art did some­thing clever dur­ing their ren­o­va­tions: they com­mis­sioned a designer (Kevin Dresser) to revisit those tired old “sym­bol signs” that have been so ubiq­ui­tous since the US Depart­ment of Trans­porta­tion issued them in 1974. The results are lovely. The new toilet-people even look like they really have to go:

DOT 1974	MoMA 2005

Even bet­ter, the new wheel­chair man is finally an active human—no longer a motion­less part of his chair:

DOT 1974	MoMA 2005

It’s hard not to like this kind of design.