[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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A poster of Aicher’s pictograms for the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, part of the Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum’s collection in New York City, shows 166 pictograms, mainly ...

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 ...

"The Phryges" represents revolution via sport. The pictograms were originally used at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. The initial set of pictograms stayed unchanged from the 1960s until 1992 ...