For the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Osterwalder said, for the first time, the pictograms told a story, since they were based on a 4,000-year-old rock carving found in a cave, representing ...

For example, the speed lines in Radomir Vukovic’s take on Aicher’s classic pictogram forms for the Sarajevo Winter Olympics in 1984 create an unmistakably ’80s iconography. Pictograms of the ...

Decoding The New Olympic Pictograms At the Olympics ... South Korea, for the 2018 Winter Olympics, and if you don't have time to watch it all on NBC—or stream it online The company knows ...

this visual language will be displayed to millions of viewers worldwide to engage and familiarise with the winter games. And for the first time in Olympic history, it introduces a new graphic element ...

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 ...

At the Tokyo Olympics Opening Ceremony this summer, three artists clad in blue and white deftly brought all 50 official sporting pictograms to life, seamlessly transitioning from one to the next ...