“Icographic (The review of International Visual Communication Design) was founded by John Halas in 1971. It was designed / edited by Patrick Wallis Burke and released quarterly, well atleast for the first year. The journal addressed the broader areas of visual communication such as semiotics, communication theory, ergonomics of visual communication and the psychology of perception.”
Icographic Journal - Isotypes, Icons and Pictograms
Olympukes, designed by Jonathan Barnbrook as an antidote to the hyper-commercialism of the 2004 summer Olympics, is a free download from his site VirusFonts.com.
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“Aicherâs pictograms for the town of Isny contrast sharply with those he developed for the Munich Olympic games some ten years earlier - while many share the same constructional grid, the speed, grace and pose of the athlete makes way for the slower pace and peace of the rural countryside and country folk. Mountains, hillsides, farms, lakes, skiers, cows, ducks and cyclists are visually rendered in Aicherâs pictographic style. The book is printed black throughout, the images are beautifully paced, either black on white or white reversed out. Written by Katharina Adler, this is a book requiring no words.” DavidMcFarline
The book: Otl Aicher: das Allgäu (bei Isny), Isny, 1981.
More about Isny: A pictogram of the Allgäu city Isny by Otl Aicher
“BOCOG released the Pictograms of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games on the occasion of the 2-year countdown to the opening of the Games.”
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Interesting animation with olympic pictograms.
1st. worldOutgames, Canada, Montreal