The Summer Olympic Games are returning to Tokyo in 2020! 万歳！We should all be finished with college by then, right? Start making your travel plans; Japan's already got the architecture figured out.

On the more subtle side of design, those of you familiar with the current scandal over the 2014 Olympics in Sochi, Russia might argue that Japan's color choice for the initial logo of the 2020 games has a particular significance... although, to be fair, they're missing the orange, and Japan has used a rainbow theme in their past Olympic designs:

Banzai once more! やった、日本！

From among the displays of hate, terror, and despair that overrun the news these days, it's important to have a reminder of our shared humanity every so often. 

I'll see you all on Monday.