Logo Histories

Logo Histories

Extended Content: The first Paralympic logo

How Sung-Chun’s Seoul 88 logo led to the first official Paralympics logo.

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Richard Baird
Feb 28, 2022
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Logo for the Seoul '88 Paralympics
Logo, Paralympics, 1988

Yang Sung-Chun’s proposal and winning design for 1988’s Summer Olympics (read the Logo History here) was derived from the tri-coloured taegeuk, a South Korean variant of a traditional, symbolic and widely-used motif in Korean culture. The two colour Korean version was made up of two interlinked spirals of red and blue. This repres…

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