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How the Tokyo 2020 Olympics was designed

Design Week

These were designed by Ryo Taniguchi and chosen from a public competition voted on by the Mascot Selection Panel and Japanese elementary schoolchildren. This year, following governmental requests for the torch not to pass through public roads, an alternative lighting ceremony will take place. billion viewers worldwide.

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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.” How much of life is coping?” and “How much of love is attention?”—in Chloë Bass, How much of love is attention?

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