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 ...

A poster of Aicher’s pictograms for the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich ... and how those things are presented in space,” Lupton says. “Are they centered? Are they flush left?

The Opening Ceremonies of the Tokyo Olympics featured thousands of world-class athletes getting a break from the physical grind necessary to perfection. Friday night in Tokyo featured them ...

But hidden within is the deeper innovation: An unparalleled level of small touches to make the space more accessible ... first country to bring pictograms to the Olympics during the 1964 Tokyo ...

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 ...

(BEIJING) -- The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG) released the Pictograms of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games on the occasion of the 2-year countdown to the ...

Artist Jon Barnbrook redesigned a set of pictograms acknowledging the many contradictions of the modern Olympic games. "Olumpukes 2012" features cheeky reinterpretations that emphasize the ...

One of the main aspects of the visual identity of the 2016 Olympic Games will be its pictograms. The pictograms help to immediately identify each sport on the Olympic agenda, through a small image ...

Tokyo 2020 has unveiled a set of 50 retro-style sport pictograms that pay homage to the icons introduced at the first Tokyo Olympics in 1964. The football pictogram is one of 50 designs featuring ...

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 ...