3rd international conference on typography and visual communication

In June 2007 the University of Macedonia Press, with the support of the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication at the University of Reading (UK) and the Association Typographique Internationale (ATypI), in collaboration with alterVision, and with the co-operation of Redfish and the Thessaloniki Design Museum, will be hosting the 3rd International Conference on Typography and Graphic Communication with the general theme From Verbal to Graphic.

The Conference is part of a programme that has been on the cards since the end of the eighties, aiming to develop education and research in typography, as well as advance typographic practice in Greece. This effort has exceeded the modest boundaries of Greece, culminating in the two international conferences of 2002 and 2004, which put Thessaloniki on the worldwide typographic map.

Olympic Games visual-corporate identity

KEYWORDS:
Olympic Games visual identity, Olympic Games corporate identity, Olympic logos, Olympic emblems, Olympic mascots, Olympic sport pictograms, Olympic sport pictographs, Olympic information pictograms, spectator signs and symbols, Olympic typography, wayfinding system, Olympic signage, Olympic marks, Look of the Games, Olympic posters, Olympic medal, Olympic torch

On 2002, I did my MA on Olympic Sport Pictograms and ever since then I try to collect as mush info as I can regarding all the visual elements of Olympic Games. My aim is to create an educational web site, in which there will be all the info for Olympic Games visual identity. Everything that is related to Olympic Games’ visual elements and you happen to know or heard about it may be very valuable to my research.

The final web site will present for every modern Olympiad the following:

a) the basic visual elements

• Emblems (bid, main, secondary ones for: environment, culture, volunteerism, torch relay)
• Mascots (in sport action, variations)
• Sports and information pictograms
• Pattern (in http://www.athens2004.com is called ‘secondary graphics’ and in http://www.torino2006.org is called ‘Look of the Games’)
• Typography
• Colours

b) design applications, such as:

• Wayfinding
• Posters
• Medal
• Torch
• Web site
• Print items

So, any help is welcomed. You could help me by giving me reference for: an article that you have read concerning Olympic Games visual identity, a book that contains similar data, digital files and anything you may think off. If you want to send me digital files, please use my e-mail: pkoutsod[at]gmail[dot]com.