This sign was found on the bathroom door of an event venue in downtown Helsinki, Finland. The sign is a black placard with white being used as the "drawing color". On the top we have one variant1 of the "all genders" sign, combining the female symbol (♀) and the male symbol (♂) in an presumably inclusive way. Below that we have an icon of a urinal, in somewhat minimal style. All of this is implemented in a very professional looking sign vessel.
The main reason it caught my attention because it combines a very strongly symbolic sign with a very iconic sign. The male, female and all genders signs are purely symbolic2, whereas the urinal icon really is a depiction of a urinal. Though in all fairness, it is stylized in such a way that without the context of a bathroom setting I might not understand it's meaning.
For what we see on the indexical side of things the story is also interesting. Both of these signs index the particular bathroom behind the door they are attached on. But since the iconic urinal is hard to understand without this context, the indexicality works a bit different with the symbol and the icon. The all genders symbol signals not only about all genders being welcome in this bathroom, but also the base fact that a bathroom is there to be found. Once that is established, the urinal icon opens up from the context, and feeds back the knowledge that this all gendered bathroom also contains urinals. It's a wonderful dynamical process that happened when looking at this sign.
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I've seen a few different variants, and I am not aware if the variants all mean the exact same thing or have some more nuanced meanings. ↩
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In more ways than one, as my understanding is that the classical gender signs were originally astrological (symbolic) signs for Mars and Venus, later repurposed as gender signs. To the etymological connection is through a chain of symbolism. ↩