The set of 35 icons, representing all the Beijing Olympics official events, use the structure of the Chinese seal script as the basic form while incorporating the pictographic charm of the oracle bone writing and the bronze ware script with the simplification of modern graphics.

    "Designers referred to experience of past Olympic Games and were inspired by Chinese traditional culture to work out the pictograms," said Beijing Olympic organizing committee official Zhang Ming, referring to the pictograms entitled "Beauty of Seal Characters".

    "These pictograms are very clear in terms of the sports they represent, simple and of Chinese characteristic," she said at the release, which doubled as one of the activities to mark the two-year counting down of the Beijing Olympic Games.  Full story <<<

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