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Olympics Poster
Munich Olympics
Otl Aicher, 1972
Offset lithograph on white wove paper (reproduction)
Description: A poster with a series of symbols to depict information and instructions. It has a light gray background with white and black icons. There are many different kinds of icons. Some examples include icons for planes taking off and landing, wayfinding directions, telephones, and dining.
An Olympian Feat of Graphic Invention
Otl Aicher's posters for the 1972 Olympics depict people, transport, and objects as simple emblems, rather like emojis. The graphic system he used pioneered a new type of visual communication across language barriers, aiming at universal comprehensibility.
Credit: Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, Gift of Ken Friedman; 1997-19-167 |