The 2020 Olympic committee ditched the logo following accusations that Kenjiro Sano’s design was heavily based on a piece of work by Belgian designer Olivier Debie, which was created for the Théâtre de Liège in Belgium in 2013.
Japanese officials originally rejected claims that Sano was guilty of plagiarism, arguing that the emphasis on the “T” bore no resemblance to Debie’s theatre design, which they pointed out was not a registered trademark.
However, the 2020 Olympics organising committee decided on the logo’s future at a crisis meeting on Tuesday attended by Japan’s Olympics minister Toshiaki Endo and the head of the Japanese Read full story ›
Source: The Drum
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