The Milano Cortina 2026 Organising Committee also unveiled the pictograms of the Games. The pictograms, which are inspired by the movement and talent of athletes, combine elegance and vibrance.

A picture is worth a thousand words, so goes the saying. In the case of Olympic pictograms, a single design can tell the story of an entire nation. Originally designed to bridge language barriers, ...

Pictograms: A celebration of winter sports These simple, stylised icons represent each sport and discipline on the Olympic and Paralympic programme and are an integral part of each Games. Designed to ...

Tenochtitlán, the capital of the Aztec Empire, was founded in 1325. Illustration by Meilan Solly / Images: Public domain and Txllxt TxllxT via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 As early as ...

Pictograms are part of the identity of each Olympic event. Its colors and lines are a stamp that endures in the collective memory of sports fans and of the athletes themselves. In addition to ...

The altar dates back to the time after the Spanish conquest of the Aztec capital Tenochtitlán. Experts say it was located in a courtyard inside a home of an Aztec family, who would have used it ...

The 1964 Summer Games were seminal in cementing Japan’s post-war identity and the design of everything from pictograms to posters to uniforms – a modernist vision championed by Kamekura – played a ...

Archaeologists have excavated more sections of an extraordinary Aztec tower of human skulls under the centre of Mexico City. Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH ...

A new mobile app aims to help people with autism spectrum disorders communicate better using a pictogram system, joining a crowded market for digital health tools helping people with the disorder ...

The Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee of the Paralympic and Olympic Games has unveiled the first animated pictograms to be used in the history of the event. The expansive bank of 73 pictograms created ...

As Gen Z navigate what they want from a career in advertising, the industry is starting to wake up to the fact that it needs young talent more than they need it ...