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 ...

One of the most striking sequences in the Tokyo Olympics' opening ceremony revolved around pictograms. Tokyo organizers have been touting their "kinetic pictograms," which show figures bursting ...

In the span of less than five minutes, three tireless performers managed to pose as pictograms from 50 disciplines spanning 41 Olympic sports, including basketball, skateboarding, and triathlon.

(ATR) As part of two-years-to-go events, the pictograms for the events of the Beijing Olympics are now public, a set of 35 images based on Chinese seal characters. August 8 will mark two years to ...

"I have no doubt that the pictograms will have particular significance to all residents of Russia, as these new symbols have been influenced by the 1980 Moscow Olympics pictograms, ‘creating a ...

Tokyo 2020 have unveiled the official sport pictograms for next year's Olympic Games to mark the 500 days to go countdown. Organisers said the pictograms are in line with their promise of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...