Bursting – unmistakable body language

Ever since the modern signs depicting a man and a woman arose from the woodcuts of Gerd Arntz and the ISOTYPE movement, they have been used to direct men and women to public toilets and somehow become synonymous with lavatories.

We wanted to retain the original meaning of these pictograms and design a new set of signs specifically for lavatories.

The series Bursting can be seen as a clarification of the original signs, as they hold a universal body language that vividly captures the feeling of bursting for the toilet.

Materials: aluminium, vinyl
Measurements: 162x130 mm