Winter Olympics *

The XXIII Olympic Winter Games in 2018 will be hosted by Pyeongchang, South Korea after successfully winning the bid against Munich, Germany and Annecy, France and it will follow the 2014 Winter Games played in Sochi, Russia. In early May, the PyeongChang 2018 Organising Committee introduced the emblem for the Games. All of the work is presented in a video included in this post (with some screen captures of the highlights for quick browsing) and a decent press release is available here. The PyeongChang 2018 Olympic emblem is an abstract motif inspired by Hangul, the alphabet of the phonetic Korean language. It is composed of the first consonants of the name of the host city, PyeongChang. The ‘?'(P) is the first consonant of the first syllable, Pyeong. It also symbolises the open squa