Olympic Pictograms Through the Ages

Over at the New York Times they have posted a video on the history of the Olympic pictograms. What is a pictogram? Why it is a tiny symbol meant to encapsulate the essence of a sport (or use of a very important facility).

Designer Steven Heller traces the evolution of the tiny symbols for each Olympic sport since their appearance in 1936.

via Olympic Pictograms Through the Ages – Video Feature – NYTimes.com.

This story written by Paul Adams

Paul Adams leads an award-winning, diverse contractor team that runs a federal high performance computing facility where he has worked for 17 years. He loves getting his hands on the latest visualization and computer hardware, astronomy, aerospace engineering, working with the poor, and ringing cowbells.