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Innovative Symbols of Sport Graphic Designing the Olympic Games
The emoji symbols were first seen in Japan in black and white in 1997, and expanded to a full color set of 176 emoji for NTT Docomo by designer Shigetaka Kurita. This initial set was created with a limited canvas of 12 x 12 pixels per image but were still easily recognized by mobile users. Many of them have evolved over the years and are still seen daily in text messages, emails and social media posts today, such as a heart, martini glass, and smiley face. Emoji A New Visual Language with Japanese Roots
The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games (which was postponed to summer of 2021) introduced pictograms, minimalist visual symbols, for representing not only individual sports but other wayfinding information (i.e., help visitors find a telephone, a first-aid station, a bank, and restrooms.). The pictograms were such a blockbuster success that they became an official part of Olympic policy.
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