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Stepping into Do Ho Suh’s exhibition at Tate Modern feels a bit like walking into a memory made of air and colour. Walls become sheer fabric, doors glow in soft pinks and greens, and everyday objects, door handles, light switches, radiators, hover like ghosts of all the places we’ve lived in but never quite left behind. For those of us who’ve left home and rebuilt our lives elsewhere, his work hits very close to the bone. Who is Do Ho Suh? Do Ho Suh (b. 1962) is a South Korea

If you geek out over clean, clever design, this one’s for you. Japan House London’s new show, Pictograms: Iconic Japanese Designs , traces how simple symbols evolved into a shared visual language — from early sign systems to the game-changing sets created for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, and right through to today’s signage and emojis. It’s a crisp, hands-on look at clarity, consistency, and why Japan leads the way in pictogram design. What you’ll see inside The exhibition steps