Please Exit in an Orderly, Well-Designed Fashion

Slate editor Julia Turner explains why American exit signs need to be shown the door.

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Over at Slate, in her epic six-part series on wayfinding, deputy editor Julia Turner explains the exit sign: designed to stand out, but ignored by designers -- at least in the US -- for 75 years. In America, we have the commanding, red EXIT, standardized in the '30s and '40s. But most everywhere else, it's the ISO standard: a green man bounding out the door, developed in the late '70s by the Japanese...