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 ...

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 ...

Perhaps the most energetic moment of the ceremonies came from a group of faceless but peppy performers dressed as human pictograms. In a creative, sometimes beautiful display of all the Games have ...

Pierre Gouzou of France competes during the men's trampoline finals, high above the trampoline gymnastics pictogram. (Morry Gash/AP) Warning: This graphic requires ...

For decades, one solution to this problem has been pictograms, a spare visual language capable of explaining everything from where swimming events will be held to how to catch a train. Artistic ...

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 ...

Graphics, icons, and pictograms are increasingly popular methods of presenting information to consumers in direct, memorable, and easily understandable ways. Sometimes, how the information is ...