A poster of Aicher’s pictograms for the 1972 Summer Olympics ... In 1937, Aicher was arrested after refusing to join the Hitler Youth. After being drafted into the army to fight in World War ...

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 ...

But while a lot of people are thirsting over Tonga’s shirtless flag bearer or the next great Olympic story, a lot of the attention throughout the games has been on the amazing pictogram ...

Graphics, icons, and pictograms are increasingly popular methods of presenting information to consumers in direct, memorable, and easily understandable ways. Sometimes, how the information is ...