Over 50 years since pictograms were first used at the Tokyo 1964 Olympics, Japanese designer Masaaki Hiromura has created 50 new symbols ahead of next year’s event In 1964, Japan took to the world ...

In one of the biggest standout moments, a group of performers acted out each Olympic event based on pictograms, rapidly changing from one sport to the next. Back in 1964, when Japan last hosted ...

1964 Tokyo Olympics official poster. Courtesy of Prince Chichibu Memorial Sports Museum 1964 Tokyo Games Art Exhibition Poster (Photo Exhibition), designed by Hara Hiromu Pictograms, photographed ...

Hashimoto, who herself has represented Japan in seven Olympics ... to show all 50 pictograms being used for the various Olympic events. Pictograms for the sports were first introduced at an ...

(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 ...

Pictograms have been part of the Olympic Games since Tokyo 1964. They were born as a simple way of identifying sports in a country like Japan, whose syllabary of hiragans and katakanas ...