Gerhard Joksch

Blog posts by Gerhard Joksch

This sporting myth

5 August 2025
Design history, Graphic design, Information design

Who would dare update the Munich pictograms made by Otl Aicher and Gerhard Joksch? Mark Holt, that’s who. Quentin Newark reports

The sports event symbols for the 1972 Olympics are rightly regarded as one of graphic design’s undoubted high points, writes Quentin Newark