Otl Aicher’s Pictograms

 - Kai Gehrmann

An homage to the creative intellectual and generalist on his 100th birthday, and to the "language without words," that he developed for the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich.

Otl Aicher’s Pictograms
Munich 1972: The design concept for the Games helped ensure that, despite the terrorist attack, they would be called the “smiling Games”. © Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München/Bildarchiv