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The Olympic Logo

Friday August 22, 2008
Olympic logos (of some sort) date back to 1896. I found a full list of them and couldn't help but pick my favorites... Mexico '68, Montreal '76 and L.A. '84 (maybe just because it takes me back). The most recent ones aren't doing as much for me, though London 2012 certainly is different. What are you favorites?
Comments
August 28, 2008 at 2:20 am
(1) Erkan says:

Yes many of those are fine. Atenas 2004 is very good i like that logo too much.
Estocolmo 1912 is so comic for me:)

August 28, 2008 at 5:23 am
(2) Amazing Information says:

Hey dude, thanks a lot, you considered my blog in which I have posted all Olympic logos. Thanks again.

September 2, 2008 at 6:15 pm
(3) Priscila says:

Thank you! I didn’t like the London logo – but I do love the clean Montreal one, the classic russian one, and the amazingly creative and kind of “informal” australian logo!

September 3, 2008 at 6:35 pm
(4) Bob says:

Man, that London logo is BRUTAL.

September 27, 2008 at 1:07 pm
(5) Logo Design Contests says:

The main problem with the London Olympics logo is it cost £400,000 and took 6 months to design! I think it’s irresponsible of the client to use such a large budget and get such a poor outcome.

These sort of projects are perfect for logo design contest format. A budget of that size would get an amazing result through the open brief business model.

Alec Lynch
DesignBay

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