Artefacts

Reference record. Tokyo 2020, artistic poster for Olympic Games «Harmonized Chequered Emblem Study for Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games [Even Edged Matters Could Form Harmonized Circle with "Rule"]» by TOKOLO Asao.

Physical description

Poster featuring a study for the Olympic Games emblem.

Created

Created: Asao TOKORO Created: Comité d'organisation des Jeux de la XXXIIe Olympiade en 2020 à Tokyo

Materials

paper

Colors

blue, white

Dimension

103 x 73 cm

Literature

Le Centre d'Etudes Olympiques. Les affiches des Jeux Olympiques d'été d'Athènes 1896 à Tokyo 2020 . Le Centre d'Etudes Olympiques, 2021 The Olympic Studies Centre. Olympic Summer Games Posters from Athens 1896 to Tokyo 2020. The Olympic Studies Centre, 2021 Summer Olympic Games. Organizing Committee. 32, 2020, Tokyo. TOKYO 2020 OFFICIAL REPORT / THE TOKYO ORGANISING COMMITTEE OF THE OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC GAMES. 2020

Type of item

Posters -> official Olympic Games poster

Reference number

160777

Original title

Étude sur l'emblème à damiers harmonisé pour les Jeux olympiques de Tokyo 2020 [Même les questions pointues pourraient former un cercle harmonisé avec une "règle"]

Keywords

artistic poster Tokyo 2020, Olympic Games visual identity Olympic emblem

Notes

Tokyo 2020, art posters created for the Olympic Games and the Paralympic Games “Harmonised Chequered Emblem Study for Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games” by Asao TOKOLO. Asao Tokolo explains how he worked: “My designs for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic emblems are circles in ai (Japanese indigo), both composed of equal numbers of rectangles obtained by connecting the middle points of rhombuses, a pattern I named Kumi-ichimatsu-mon. The original drawings for the designs were executed by hand, with their visual guidelines, tentative lines and traces of erased lines acting as projections of physicality.” Donated by the OCOG