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How the Tokyo 2020 Olympics was designed

Design Week

The Olympics is a major television event – the 2016 Rio Olympics drew in 3.6 As such, networks design significant campaigns around them. Look out for the shop signs and logos that use pictograms originally designed for the Tokyo 1964 Olympics as well as a music video inspired by US gymnast Simone Biles.

Sports 101
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Is It Art, or Is It Type? What We Learn When Language is Built, Not Written

Eye on Design

As Mark Sheerin describes it in his review of Banner’s 2016 show Buoys Boys , Font “combines an old-fashioned ecclesiastical look and feel with an au courant encounter with the computerized glitch.”

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