1) I used a snowflake font, along with a faded blue to white color to capture the snow that we receive in Bend, and also to help show that this would be the Winter Olympics, not the summer Olympics.
2) I used the shape tool and the paint tool to alter them and make them 100% original.
3) I like my pictograms because the events are kind of silly, and not just regular events, i.e Snowman building, ice fishing, snowball fighting.