Guo Chunning (born 1958) is a Chinese

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and the vice president of the Beijing Armstrong International Corporate Identity (AICI). He is internationally known for designing

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, the official emblem of the

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, held in Beijing in the People's Republic of China.

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Guo was born in 1958 in the city of

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province in

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. Since 1975, he studied

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at Tianjin Arts and Crafts School (). In 1980, he was accepted to study

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at Decoration Department of Central Academy of Arts and Crafts () which is now Academy of Arts & Design of

Tsinghua University Tsinghua University (THU) is a public university in Haidian, Beijing, China. It is affiliated with and funded by the Ministry of Education of China. The university is part of Project 211, Project 985, and the Double First-Class Constructio ...

. Upon his graduation from the school in 1984, Guo worked at advertisement department of

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until 1988 to establish Beijing Shichuang International Design Co., Ltd () In 2002, his logo design based on Chinese seal was selected among the 1,985 entires contributed by about 1300 designers from China and overseas.

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1958 births Living people Chinese graphic designers Chinese designers 2008 Summer Olympics Tsinghua University alumni Artists from Shenyang {{China-artist-stub

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