It was the portion of the Opening Ceremony that many were talking about, and no, it wasn’t the lighting of the torch. Toward the end of Friday’s ceremony to open the Summer Olympics in Tokyo, the ...

Today we look at pictograms, symbols that say a lot without any words. Let’s see how many of these communication icons make universal sense. A pictogram or pictograph is a symbol representing a ...

This post has been adapted from the original. Can you name all 24 events at the Winter Olympics at Pyeongchang from memory? Of course not, nobody can. But I bet you could do really well if I showed ...

The Opening Ceremony included many memorable moments -- some somber, others inspiring -- but few were as purely fun as the human pictogram performance. What, do tell, is a "human pictogram performance ...

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 barriers, ...

The Paris 2024 Olympic Games are fast approaching, and design controversies continue to follow the preparations at every stage. After all the jokes about the logo design and the mascots, the ...