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July 20, 2012 12:57 pm PDT

History of Olympic pictograms

Smithsonian traced the history of the Olympic pictograms. Illustrations to represent the Olympic competitions were first used in 1948 to communicate across languages. (The pictograms above were designed by Lance Wyman for the 1968 Mexico Olympics.) From Smithsonian: The 1948 London pictograms were not a system of communication so much as a series of illustrations [...]


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