With large number of sports and venues, visitors to Olympic Games
from other countries sometime have
difficulty in learning what is taking place where. Pictographs, first used at the Tokyo
Games of 1964, were very helpful in this respect. The pictographs at the Mexico City Games
of 1968 employed motifs borrowed from ancient Aztec writing. Those at the Munich Games of
1978 were distinguished by a laconic geometric style. The organisers of the 1976 Olympics
in Montreal used a slightly modified variation of the Munich pictographs. Olympic stamps
of India and Cyprus reproduced some of these pictographs. Here Nauru's stamp shows such a
pictograph.
er countries sometime have
difficulty in learning what is taking place where. Pictographs, first used at the Tokyo
Games of 1964, were very helpful in this respect. The pictographs at the Mexico City Games
of 1968 employed motifs borrowed from ancient Aztec writing. Those at the Munich Games of
1978 were distinguished by a laconic geometric style. The organisers of the 1976 Olympics
in Montreal used a slightly modified variation of the Munich pictographs. Olympic stamps
of India and Cyprus reproduced some of these pictographs. Here Nauru's stamp shows such a
pictograph.