Next year will see Japan take up the mantle again at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Japanese designer Masaaki Hiromura, who specialises in branding and signage design, has been tasked ...

Japan has a strong connection to Olympic pictograms: they were first used at the Tokyo Games in 1964 as a language-free way of helping people navigate the events. The idea was so successful that ...

is a "human pictogram performance"? It's kind of hard to describe, but you'll definitely want to see the video for yourself. In the span of less than five minutes, three tireless performers managed to ...

to the forthcoming competition in Tokyo 2020. Each chapter details different design elements, from logos to colour palettes to pictograms, shining a spotlight on the work of 160 designers from all 57 ...

The tentatively titled “Tokyo 2020 Olympics,” an official documentary of the Games held at the height of the novel coronavirus pandemic after a yearlong delay, will be released in June.