LogoArchive's Logo Histories

Share this post
Extended Content: The first Paralympic logo
www.logohistories.com

Extended Content: The first Paralympic logo

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

Richard Baird
Feb 28, 2022
4
Share this post
Extended Content: The first Paralympic logo
www.logohistories.com
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…

This post is for paid subscribers

Already a paid subscriber? Sign in
Previous
Next
© 2023 Richard Baird Ltd
Privacy ∙ Terms ∙ Collection notice
Start WritingGet the app
Substack is the home for great writing