Tokyo 1964 – Sports Pictograms
Designer: Yusaku Kamekura
Pictograms were employed to help get over the language barrier that arises when people from all over the world gather together for the Olympics. There were symbols for the various competition events plus facility symbols for the signs indicating restaurants and seating and so on. The event symbols were by Yoshiro Yamashita, while the facility ones were by ten designers, including Ikko Tanaka, Shigeo Fukuda, Tadanori Yokoo, Aquirax (Akira) Uno, Tsunehisa Kimura, Keiko Hirohashi, and Ryohei Yanagihara. The themes like “restaurant” or “theater” were handed out and everyone drew pictures, and these were then brushed up by Tanaka, Kimura and Hirohashi.
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FENCING
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GYMNASTICS
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BOXING
BASKETBALL
EQUESTRIAN
ROWING
HOCKEY
CYCLING
JUDO
SHOOTING
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