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Winning design

Harmonized chequered emblem

Chequered patterns have been popular in many countries around the world throughout history. In Japan, the chequered pattern became formally known as “ichimatsu moyo” in the Edo period (1603-1867), and this chequered design in the traditional Japanese colour of indigo blue expresses a refined elegance and sophistication that exemplifies Japan.
Composed of three varieties of rectangular shapes, the design represents different countries, cultures and ways of thinking. It incorporates the message of “unity in diversity”. It also expresses that the Olympic and Paralympic Games seek to promote diversity as a platform to connect the world.

Designer of the Tokyo 2020 Games emblems
Asao Tokolo

Profile

• Year of birth: 1969
• Place of residence: Tokyo
• Occupation: Artist
• Education: Graduated in Architecture from the Tokyo Zokei University
• Current employment: Tokolo.com
• Awards and exhibitions
• MOT Annual 2010: Neo-Ornamentalism from Japanese Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
• Open Space 2010 and 2011 – InterCommunication Center (ICC), Tokyo
• 2014 Materializing Exhibition II – Chinretsukan Gallery of the University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts
• 2016 TOKOLO Asao x Aomori City Archives Exhibition – Aomori Contemporary Art Centre, Aomori Prefecture

Selected Works

• 2007 – FRP/F town façade pattern, Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture (architect: Hitoshi Abe)
• 2012 – Façade pattern for the 125th Anniversary of the Education Center, Kogakuin University (architect: Chiba Manabu
• Architects, design work with Azumi Mitsuboshi, Hachioji, Tokyo)
• 2015 – BaoBao Issey Miyake bag (Tokolo pattern)
• 2015 – Low-rise part façade glass pattern for the Dai Nagoya Building, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture (Architect: Mitsubishi Jisho Sekkei Inc.)

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The Tokyo 2020 Emblems Selection Committee have launched a design competition for a new emblem for the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Press release:

16 October 2015 – Tokyo 2020 Launches an Open Competition for the Design of the 2020 Games Emblems

The Tokyo 2020 Emblems Selection Committee has today launched the design competition for the new Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games emblems. The competition is open to everyone regardless of previous experience or formal qualifications, and individual or group applications are welcomed.

Individual competition entries are invited from Japanese nationals over 18 years-old and foreign nationals over 18 years-old with the right of residence in Japan. Children and foreigners not resident in Japan can also take part via the group entries system (10 persons max.) as long as at least one person meets the above age, nationality and residential requirements.

The complete guidelines regarding the design competition for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games emblems are available here.

Applications can be submitted online from Tuesday 24 November to Monday 7 December 2015 through a website to be publicly announced at a later date. An official announcement of the winning entry is scheduled for spring 2016.

The entry selected by the Tokyo 2020 Emblems Selection Committee will be forwarded to the Tokyo 2020 Executive Board for final approval. The winning entry will receive an official invitation to attend the opening ceremonies of both the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

The Games emblems should seek to symbolise the fact that the 2020 Games are being held in Tokyo and Japan, and elicit empathy with people across the world. The designs should endeavour to have widespread appeal before, during and long after the 2020 Games are over.

Tokyo 2020 would like all applicants to give full rein to their imagination and creativity, and incorporate one or more of the following key concepts into their design of new Games emblems: “The power of sport”, “Typifying Tokyo and/or Japan”, “World peace”, “Exerting the utmost efforts and striving to achieve a personal best,”, “Inclusivity”, “Innovation and Futuristic”, “Regeneration (ability to recover from the 2011 disaster).

 

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Press release: [TOCOG]

1 September 2015 – Announcement regarding the Tokyo 2020 Games emblems

The Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games today decided to withdraw the current Games emblems. Further information regarding the new emblems will be announced as soon as it is available.

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Tokyo withdraws 2020 Olympics logo after plagiarism allegations [Dezeen]

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— Olivier Debie (@OliDebie) July 28, 2015