Pictograms
The Olympic Games are gathering for about three weeks in a given place millions of people from all four corners of the world. To help this international public to find its way to the competition venues and the various services (post, restaurants, banks, clinic, etc.), Games Organizing Committees make use of pictograms – graphic symbols which should be immediately understood by anyone.
The first pictograms appeared at the IV. Olympic Winter Games in Garmisch Partenkirchen, Germany in 1936. They were used systematically from the Games of the XVIII. Olympiad in Tokyo in 1964 onwards.
I have chosen the the pictograms of Field Hockey (Summer Olympics) and Ice Hockey (Winter Olympics) for a better comparison of the different designs.
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Garmisch P. 1936 |
Berlin 1936 |
London 1948 |
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Rome 1960 |
Tokyo 1964 |
Grenoble 1968 |
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Mexico 1968 |
Sapporo 1972 |
Munich 1972 |
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Innsbruck 1976 |
Montréal 1976 |
Lake Placid 1980 |
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Moscow 1980 |
Sarajevo 1984 |
Los Angeles 1984 |
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Calgary 1988 |
Seoul 1988 |
Albertville 1992 |
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Barcelona 1992 |
Lillehammer 1994 |
Atlanta 1996 |
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Nagano 1998 |
Sydney 2000 |
Salt Lake 2002 |
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Athens 2004 |
Torino 2006 |
Beijing 2008 |
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Vancouver 2010 |
London 2012
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