[Image: Pyeongchang 2018] The iconography of Olympic events, often referred to as pictograms, has a long, historic, and storied past. With every Olympic Games comes a hosting city looking to make ...

With 1,000 days until the Opening Ceremony of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, organizers released the official pictograms for all 41 Olympic sports. The graphics, which are placed in ...

The pictograms have been created and used by each host city of the Olympics ever since. In both paying tribute to the history of pictograms and also introducing what this year’s versions would ...

Instead, at every Olympics, organizers use visual symbols known as pictograms to represent each sport. Similar to icons marking bathrooms or no-smoking areas, pictograms work best when they’re ...

Paris Olympic Games 2024 In Numbers: What Is The Cost Of Medals, How Many Athletes Are Participating - All You Need To Know The pictograms have traditionally served as visual aids for the ...

Pictograms for the 1964 Tokyo Olympic, designed by Katsumi Masaru (image: Virtual Olympic Games Museum) Of all the instances in which graphic communication is necessary to transcend language ...

There is a chance, however, that not everyone knows the fascinating story behind the pictograms and why the 2021 Olympics opening ceremony performance was such a big deal. Let us explain ...

Presentation of the pictograms for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Pictograms are part of the identity of each Olympic event. Its colors and lines are a stamp that endures in the collective memory ...

When the capital of Japan first hosted the Olympics in 1964 — the first time the Games were held in Asia — pictograms, or pictures of the sports, were introduced as a way to help bridge the ...

TOKYO, JAPAN - JULY 23: Dancers perform a pictogram of Olympic sports during the Opening Ceremony of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. (Photo by Cameron Spencer) (Cameron Spencer, 2021 Getty Images ...