is a "human pictogram performance"? It's kind of hard to describe, but you'll definitely want to see the video for yourself. In the span of less than five minutes, three tireless performers managed to ...

Japan has a strong connection to Olympic pictograms: they were first used at the Tokyo Games in 1964 as a language-free way of helping people navigate the events. The idea was so successful that ...

For the first time the logo will be the same for both the Olympic and Paralympic Games. The next phase of the visual identity, along with a series of pictograms, has just been launched and it ...

(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 ...

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 ...

Perhaps those who bore the greatest burden were the three individuals who danced and performed for five minutes or so to show all 50 pictograms being used for the various Olympic events.