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Developing the pictograms for the Olympics is a dream for every designer. A dream that most likely will never become reality. Instead you end up doing toilet icons. This is a brief look into a neglected niche of graphic design.

Read the full post: The poor man’s olympics, by Ralf Metzger

“Twenty-four sport pictograms and a series of sport illustrations for the 2010 Winter Games are revealed in September 2008. Created by Dutch illustrator Irene Jacobs of I’m JAC Design, the pictograms depict the 2010 Winter Games sports using a simplified silhouette with small details depicting the dynamism of the athlete in motion.

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“Aicher’s 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 Aicher’s 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

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Interesting animation with olympic pictograms.
1st. worldOutgames, Canada, Montreal