39 Olympic Logos From 1924 to 2012

That’s a nice collection, but I have to say that the London logo is quite strange.
But I am partial to the 84′ Olympiad, because it was in LA (where I’m from) and had a poster hanging in my parents house growing up.

i lilke the athens 2004 one.
it’s like a handdrawing.

Cool post!

London 2012 isn’t working for me. Pink and yellow are vibrating too much. It seems more like a kids cartoon logo than for the olympic games.

It’s also interesting how about 5 of the more recent ones use an abstract shape of a human figure as part of the logo. So atleast London’s doesn’t copy that same overused idea.

London – Summer 2012
Bad logo. It is a bad logo. Previously, logos have been better.
All logos are good. And this (London – Summer 2012) is very bad.

Good logos, in my opinion.

old:
Cortina d’Ampezzo – Winter 1956
Melbourne / Stockholm – Summer 1956
Innsbruck – Winter 1964
Tokyo – Summer 1964
Moscow – Summer 1980
Calgary – Winter 1988
Albertville – Winter 1992

modern:
Nagano – Winter 1998
Athens – Summer 2004
Turin – Winter 2006

With greetings from Russia )))

I do not like London’s 2012 Olympics logo.
I do not like it with a mouse.
I do not like it in a house.
I do not like it on a train.
I do not like it in the rain.
I do not like it Sam I Am.
I do not like London’s 2012 Olympics logo.

Vancouver… the fatty olympics

London 2012? I dont like it maybe because Im not a logo expert. lol Its just my own opinion anyway. Im sure it is intended to look like it. lol

Atlanta, Calgary and Munich are nice logos. But London 2012 is the ugliest thing I’ve ever seen in my life!

I don’t like London’s either, I didn’t really understand why the committee picked up that ugly and meaningless design. My favourite one is Beijing 2008.

found sth funny about that london logo:

http://www.geordiesport.com/images/london2012_logo.jpg

I don’t like a single on of these logos. To me none of them are particularly timeless. In fact I would say that it is in the DNA of the Olympics to have bad logos!

Great post though!

Barcelona and Athens are the best

Love Turino 2006, nice one.
But hate Berlin 1936…

I like Montreal – Summer 1976 logo because it is simple and it creates an “M” for Montreal. Well I think it creates an abstract M it might not be what it is!

I think the London 2012 is better than Vancouver 2010 logo.

The London 2012 logo must have been chosen to stir opinions and get people talking about it. It certainly has done that!

I’m British and a designer, and I’m ashamed of the 2012 Olympic Logo. It’s simply awful.

Sochi 2014
http://www.1981.ru/pages/img/olympiclogo/28_2014.jpg

Berlin 36, Oslo 52, Munich 72, Moscow 80 & Athens 2004 are saying something about nation branding too in same time

Good collection and a nice research of that!
Very good blog here at depot
Thanks

My Favorites:
Helsinki – Summer 1952
Calgary – Winter 1988

And one of the future ones: Chicago 2016 <3

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_2016

great collection
mexico and montreal are the best
didnt like 2012 london

The upcoming London one was kinda 80’s. It gave that “Yo MTV raps” vibe. Mexico was pretty interesting…. but not pretty.

Nice collection!

I like the Moscow one the best… the London and Vancouver ones are strange and in my opinion not quite nice logo’s.

London 2012 – WTF, that is ugly and stupid looking. My fav’s are Nagano ‘98 and Calgary ‘88

Woooow ….. nostalgic collection

The 2012 logo is a joke and an embarrassment to our nation.

I love the Munich one. Shame those games were marred with violence.

Almost every logo looks terrible! I guess the logo for 2012 made with MS-Paint.

London 2012 looks like a logo for a youth retreat in the early 90’s.

My favorite is Nagano – Winter 1998

I think people need to realise that the London 2012 logo is designed to work as a piece of motion artwork as well as a static piece of artwork. Appearing bold, energised and free the logo encompasses many themes relating to the spirit and ambitions of the Olympics & London. I think that this logo has also been developed to take into account the changes in user interaction and technology by 2012, in particular the development of mobile visual technology.

Check out how the brand comes alive. How many of the other logos / brand could you do this with…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQ85HkWwYCw

By 2012 you’ll all be loving it.

Pity London 2012 is the worse by far.

I agree with pretty much everybody, the London 2012 logo is awful, hurts my eyes to look at it!

I’d say my favorite is the Turin 2006 logo.

The upcoming Vancouver logo is fantastic – love it! London on the flipside is terrible, don’t understand it, doesn’t connect with me and hurts my eyes.

The ‘32 LA logo is sooo American, Berlin ‘36 is tragic given its background, Helsinki ‘52 is innovative as can be especially for its time, and I’m loving Innsbruck for the proximity to my hometown. Cheers!

I like the Lillehammer – Winter 1994, probably because its the first Olympics that I followed. Athens is also great in my opinion.

I thought the London one was a joke but apparently its the real deal – Wow!

Living in Vancouver and actually know the meaning behind to Vancouver logo, i like it. It’s a bit too colorful and the composition are simple enough. My favourite of all it’s the Turino’s logo. It still looks very modern even though it’s designed at least 5 years ago?

I actually don’t like hardly any of these. It’s a great idea for a list, and really interesting to look through, but most of these just aren’t my style.

Calgary is the best

i don’t like vancouver logo..

nice logos, i like turin the best i think London is a big let down. it dosnt seem to represent anything and the colour is way off the scale

Great post! I’m very partial to the Mexico 1968 logo. I think it really set the tone of design for that era, into the 70s. Even now you can see similar typography put on “vintage” style tees.

And as for the London 2012 logo– does it remind anyone else a bit of the Saved by the Bell opening graphics (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHKvruzbWl4)? Maybe it’s just me.

Calgary ‘88 for sure. I really like the monochromatic palette, and the way that the logo uses reuses the classic Olympic rings in such a way that actually recalls the Canadian maple leaf without actually making it a maple leaf. I think that this last point is important because, while it’s nice to have a logo that alludes to or suggests the host country, the iconography shouldn’t be TOO strong, since it IS an global event.

The Vancouver 1010 logo does a nice job of this too, by using the stylized inuksuk, which is or course reminiscent of the native Inuit.

Nagano and Athens are the best for sure. In my opinion at least.

I may not know the best, but I certainly know the worst…LONDON 2012…what a shame.

I like Calgary ‘88, but I’m a Calgarian, so it’s not fair. I like Naganos the best. I’m just reading about the controversy surrounding Vancouver, but I think a few priorities were missed in the planning of the games.

Great research!

Best:

Tokyo;
Moskow;
Athens.

I’ve posted in my blog a website that you can find a series of posters from almost all olympic games.

Please fell free to read:
http://www.designcotidiano.com.br/2009/01/the-olymperials-posters-online-de-todas-as-olimpiadas/

I really like Turin 2006. It has a winterfeel to it, it is futuristic or the font used is great.

Vancouver is a bit funny but the colors seem very traditional-olympics, so it’s ok.

The London one is horrible, the colors are way too extreme and I’m reading “ZOR” out of it what is weird. Also doesn’t like the font.

I liked the Calgary one and the Rome one too, the best summer game one seems Athens, it reminds me of a holiday add.

The Munich one fits very nicely to the time it was used – slightly trippy 70’s

You know, ‘96 Atlanta would be very nice if they would have lost that awful green box in the background. The torch shape that is created is quite nifty, but right now that box just closes everything up. Bummer, could have been really nice (in my opinion).

seems nobody likes London 2012… either do I

The new London logo is simply ugly. What else is there to say..

The 1924 one is the best

Torino 2006 is neat but not really relevant geographically or subject wise. Innsbruck had two olympics and featured two boringly similar logos. Albertville 1992 had a nice clean logo but the two swipes underneath kind of ruined it for me. Not cause it’s Canada, but because it’s really really, well designed – my favorite is the Calgary 1988 logo for combining the circles in a new way to make a leaf AND a snowflake at the same time. This logo nailed it in more ways than any of the other logos and it looks great. I could go on.

And I have to agree with everyone that said the London 2012 logo looks bad. It’s like they’re doing it on purpose, trying deliberately to be misunderstood, like a hipster in a private school.

Its amazing how many people dislike the London Olympics (2012 version). I too find it quite disgusting both in shape and colour. Maybe in another 100 years people will start to appreciate it. But I doubt it!

I don’t mind the London logo, in fact I quite like the way it breaks away from the mould of the drab abstract person throwing/running/jumping we’ve seen it all before type logo, as for the others:

Montreal
Looks like someone giving the finger

Los Angeles
Replace with Olympic text with xyz US airline company name.

Turin
Looks like any generic IT company logo.

My favourites are:

Atlanta
Really nice but wish they had picked a better colour palette.

Salt Lake City
Great mix of the torch and snowflake.

Nice Round-up walter… I kinda like the London – Summer 2012 logo as it’s totally different and attracting attention.

DKumar M.

Barcelona!

With regards to the London 2012 logo, I personally hated it when I first saw it. As a British designer, the logo initially made me cringe with embarrassment, especially as it was created by the influential Wolff Olins.

Now that two years have passed since the logo was revealed to a shocked public, I’ve got to say I really like it now and it’s vibrancy is infectious. I’d even be bold enough to say it’s light years ahead of all the other logos above.

Memorable? Yes.
For the wrong reasons? Hmm, maybe. Art is subjective.
Dull? Far from it!

The only other logos that come close to London 2012 are, in my opinion:

Mexico – Summer 1968
Munich – Summer 1972

I like the atlanta logo from ‘96, although the colors are not good I think, and the font could be better

Great post.

I really like the Torino 2006 logo. Super clean sans font and simple crisp image.

I agree with the rest of the posters, 2012 London UGLY!!

I also love the upcoming Chicago logo:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_2016

Rome 1960 is kind of scary……

I am the 30th guy that I will say that London’s logo sucks.. It was well known that they don’t have taste but this is unacceptable.. I think that after Barcelona’s Olympics, all the countries had interesting logos.. Do they have time to change London’s logo?

I like the one of 2006 in Turin. Great type. Rounded, modern. simply cool. SOme of them are… really… mediocre.
Somehow i cannot believe somebody approved these.

Going to have to say that Olympic logos are NOTORIOUS for bad design, as they are almost always “design by committee.” They didn’t really start to approach decent logo design (see: Saul Bass and his contemporaries) until the 1990’s when they had a string of halfway decent ones. These include Albertville, Lillehammer, Salt Lake, Athens, Turin and Beijing. Unfortunately, the Vancouver logo and the HORRENDOUS London logo are signs of (frightening) things to come. The tradition continues!!

Must agree that the 2012 is very shocking. I watched that promo video for 2012 that someone above link to here… and it still doesn’t explain the madness of the Easter colouring book theme. And the Vancouver logo, well needless to say they would rather open logo design up to the general public by having a contest to pick the logo. However, Vancouver does have some nice mascots. Maybe your next round-up should be of Olympic mascot designs.

Nagano 98 is my fave, followed by Munich 72, Torino 06 and Rome 60. But how on earth did those silly sods settled for that 2012 rubbish? It looks as if it was grabbed right out of a school bathroom graffiti in 1983. Even ugly-album-cover-designers at that time would have done a better job.

Rome – Summer 1960, what’s happening there then!

I never realized that there were so many logos attached to those famous rings. I do think that Atlanta 96 is the best one of all. What a great opportunity to create the Olympic logo. Since it is something that is always changing, there are so many promising ideas in the past and more to come.

A number of people don’t seem to know that the Vancouver logo isn’t necessarily supposed to [blatantly] represent a person, or a fat person, or someone with no knees, but an Inukshuk, which is a figure made from rocks that is seen all over the coast (North, Pacific or Atlantic) of Canada. I think it’s a great representation of Canadian heritage while keeping with the colours of the Olympics. London, however, is horrendous.

Good lord! That London one is atrocious! It’s not the only bad one though. Glad to see these all in one place. Gives me a chance to see the changes over the years, good, and bad.

omg! >.<
London 2012 is terrible. Read how they was thinking when they done this “ambitious” logo…. look like a kid done the logo..

http://www.london2012.com/about/our-brand/

(…)
The brand
We need a powerful brand to help us achieve our ambition. A brand that combines the power of the Olympic rings and the city of London together.

The number 2012 is our brand. It is universal and understandable worldwide

Our emblem is simple, distinct, bold and buzzing with energy. Its form is inclusive yet consistent and has incredible flexibility to encourage access and participation. It can communicate with anyone from commercial organisations to kids playing sport.

It feels young in spirit. Full of confidence, certainty and opportunity. Not afraid to shake things up, to challenge the accepted. To change things.

For the first time, the Olympic and Paralympic Games will be part of the same brand family.

Our brand will have impact across everything we do, there are huge possibilities, but we have a clear ambition.

Our Games will be for everyone.
(…)

I love the London 2012 logo.

i really like the tokyo logo the most, i think! it’s so simple but strong.
and the athens logo. ♥

i think the london logo is TOO much. i was like; WTH is that? i had to look twice to actually see that it said 2012. and its a bit TOO out of the box. almost all logos have like a graphic and under that graphic text, and this one is like; WHERE’S THE TEXT?
; OH IT’S IN THE GRAPHIC ITSELF. ; BUT WHY ISNT THERE TEXT IN THE “12″ ?

but thats just my opinion. maybe im being closed minded ;]

surprisingly, the latest ones are hideous

Good ones! But London? No way!

Tokio and Moscow are the best in terms of graphic design and recognition… http://twitter.com/mluxus

I didn’t actually believe that that london piece of crap was for real, but sure enough… it’s official:
http://www.london2012.com/

Many people don’t like London 2012 logo.
Well, maybe it doesn’t matter that you like it or not ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfU4BUH8p3k

Turin or the Sydney logos are probably my favorite out of this list. I agree about the London logo. WTF were they thinking. I can only think about the mid 80s when I see that design. How much did that cost again? The Vancouver logo, although a somewhat interesting approach, seems to lack in excitement and execution.

The last London summer logo. I hope it’s a logo??

London 2012? Z I O N (decompress image) ZION

Look: http://images43.fotosik.pl/58/315c95582da9b9a8.jpg

My faves are Nagano 1998 and Athens 2004, they just resonate with me.

The athens logo is, for me, the most creative. The effect of hand writting gives the impression of something more humanized, just like the games must be.

i think that new london logo sux;)

This is a very useful post to find the best abd the worst ever Olympic logo.

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YO! check out the LONDON logo on its official webside. Its GIFy and accuallz quite cool. Looks waz better than the one posted here.

GOOD COLLECTION!

All in one page, we can se the typographic evolution, as well as the colours changing over the years, when the printing techniques also evolute!

Amazing!

Igor Saraiva

Wow! Great collections. Thanks for sharing it.

i like the athens logo for some reason, it just has something that the others do not. Great collection, thank you.

They werent very innovative with the innsbruck logo, almost the same logo used twice.

I would have to say that only Italy (Turin) and Spain (Barcelona) have done it again. Great logos, hey the best art in the world is coming from there. The rest are from bad to worse. And London, whatever happened there is the ugliest of them all. Nothing personal.

Don’t like the London Logo at all. I must say the Innsbruck – Winter 1964 was excellent for its time

A friend told me (yeah right!)
that the London 2012 looks like:

Lisa Simpson giving head.

Almost all the logos are great with a few minor exceptions. The first being the 1936 Berlin Summer games, for obvious reasons and the 2012 London games simply for any lack of style and or poor judgment.

Really nice gallery;

I like very much Nagano 1998 and Torino 2006 [ I'm italian ]

London 2012 is incredibly ugly … are they going to change it?!

bye

I love Torino 2006. By far one of the best Olympic logos. Its just clean!

Maybe this is more a reflection of me than the designers but has anyone notices that the London 2012 logo looks like a girl performing a sex act on a guy?

Am i just seeing things!

take another look!

London 2012, the logo says SHIT…but why? I think it’s a joke, it can’t be serious.

I like Lillehammer.

Can i have a permission to use this post on my blog ?
It’s very cool topic

Moscow – Summer 1980 is my favorite

London – Summer 2012
WTF?! Horrible!

Moscow – Summer 1980
Is this the Atari Logo?

Turin – Winter 2006
The best

Athens – Summer 2004——SIMPly SUPErb…………

both upcoming ones are a turn off…and really disappointed with london games….best acc to me is sydney games 2000

good logo a lot

good logos
a lot

http://www.yuga.ru/media/sochi2014_new001.jpg

London 2012 man that one is really baddd !
Looks like its a design by a 9 year old kid man.

I couldn’t actually believe my eyes when I got to the end of the logo’s to see London’s excuse for a logo….. wow….. I can’t believe the colours, the typeface, the shapes……. everything.
Scrolling down this thread, seeing SO many beautiful logo’s, becoming more and more modern, then BAM! vomit on the screen…. bad neon 80’s vomit. What were they thinking? Was a designer even employed to design this mess….

i once saw a lineup of the 2012 London Olympics logo somewhere on the web. search for it and there’s this one particular logo which has a minimalistic design yet it looks perfect. here, i searched for it.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HZw9SxEiAIg/RmbX301lCzI/AAAAAAAAABE/mXA48mPDmNM/s1600-h/newolympics.jpg

it’s pretty unique. what do u guys think?

2012 is so bad I did not even realize it was just 2012 with an extra ~square block in the middle.

I think the ones that imply physical motion (like 2000) are much more effective, as are the ones that use a locally recognized symbol with the olympic circles (like 1984 and 1988).

The most talked about logo in the comments? London 2012.

I would argue this result goes beyond the subjectivity of visual aesthetic. This work has inspired the highest amount of strong feelings in a crowd. This logo wins HANDS DOWN.

I really like the London logo, especially the shape of it, which is strangely fascinating.

Amazing boy!! 2012 is the best for me..

I like 2012…i like how they incorporated the year into the design and it highlights youthfulness that has come back into the games…gone are the days when some countries would do anything to win..GOOD LOGO

My favourites are Beijing 2008, and Helsinki 1952. I think they both really represent their country pretty well.

But the London 2012 logo… oh my god… it looks like something i drew on paint when i was 9 years old.. its absolutely Hideous. They could atleast make the numbers a bit more obvious. And change the colours. then i’d like it. yea.

The Vancouver logo is nice. Not that special, but all in all a good logo

worst logo after the Berlin 1936 summer Olympics
is the dicy.chunky London 2012 absolutely sans
spirit, sportsmanship or any cultural content nor
does it aspire/inspire any graphic creativity

My favourite is Turin, 2004.

Squaw Valley – Winter 1960 Is surprisingly modern

LOVE
Nagano – Winter 1998
Athens – Summer 2004
Beijing – Summer 2008
Vancouver – Winter 2010

HATE
London – Summer 2012

I hate the London 2012 logo. It doesn’t even make sense! I think they were trying to make it a…weird…version of the Union Jack. I love Vancouver’s logo. If you are from another part of the world, other than Canada, you probably wouldn’t get it or like it. I like it because it symbolizes part of Canada’s aboriginal culture, AND it incorporates the Olympics. It looks “non-creative” but for someone to actually think of doing that is VERY creative! I think all of the 2000’s logos are great! But, still, London is TERRIBLE!

Surely the london Logo 2012 needs to be revised it bright ……………for olympics
iwouldn,t love to keep it in my house either .

Thank you for the collection of the logos. We really enjoyed having a look at all of them together, it was like blast from the past. We have professional logo design experience and most of the logos in this collection inspired us but not the last one for London. It really is looking out of the shape, huge, and not good at all. I hope they will modify the logo, can they?

Quickly scrolled through the comments, didn’t see any positives for the London2012. I would take the risk saying it is just perfect! I just love the fact that nobody almost accepts the logo. This is just the way it SHOULD be! The logo was released at 2007 or smth. it had to live additional 5 years prior coming out “live”. This is though. Of course they cannot modify the logo on the course as the design world moves on. Of course they won’t do that. It just has to be on the right line on the 2012. And it will. They will do absolutely everything needed (and they have the power) to teach the world – this is how you will be thinking at the 2012. Take a look at the 10 year old car. What a brilliant piece of design it was back these years, eh? And was it changed a lot since then? Of course, no. People’s mind was changed.

In three simple brush strokes, Barcelona conveyed joy, humanity, vigor, coolness, excitement. Nagano and Sydney came close to repeating that.

Vancouver’s is a bit cold. Just some rocks standing there with a silly grin slapped on its face.

The London logo, however, is just hard to look at. It is an angry design and gives me a headache.

London’s is hideous.

What about the 1928 Amsterdam olympics? I’m missing the logo or a reference to it.

ewww to the London logo, what where they thinking? It looks like somebody made it in Microsoft Paint lol.

Vancouver is cool because it is of cultural significance I don’t remember the name of the indigenous people from that area (I Don’t want to butcher that). But it looks unique.

Love Vancouver’s logo!!!

i love the bejing 2008 however i think that the england 2012 logo is really crap, its a design disaster gone bad and its all boris ‘idiot’ Johnson’s fault, i mean i could design a better logo with my eyes closed, really shameful given they design and art history of Britain…

I think especially the last couple (2010 and 2012) are completely unclear and not resembling the Olympic spirit.. Most of them are great, nice list!

love :
Nagano – Winter 1998
Mexico – Summer 1968

London 2012- weird?

I wonder what they paid for this “logo” for london 2012. It is really bad!

Munich 2018 sounds promising… They think about a whole environment and not only about an ugly separate logo (who said London???):
http://www.muenchen2018.org/

to be totally honest, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with the London 2012 logo. It looks cool; it’s modern; it’s unique; it’s even 80’s retro (my god, we’ve gotten to that point). Anyway, I like them all. the early, early ones don’t get me like the newer ones do, but hey, those were just meant to be classical looking, so whatev. I also just saw what the London 2012 one was: 20-12. for the longest time I thought it was some odd configuration of person with the Olympic logo being in the head/face part. I still dig it though. And no, I’m not color blind, I just have broad tastes.

I love Rome’s! Haha… Romulus and his twin brother Remus being mothered by a she-wolf!

MEOW!

now Sochi 2014 has official emblem (the one listed above is candidate’s emblem):

sources:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/slideshow/ALeqM5gX4ObJW6OzBBtCOH2mo5GntBZcQwD9CAJOVG1?index=0
http://sochi2014.com/106629

Epic olympic fail

The london logo is just not right. It does not transmit any of the games’ spirit. Surprising to see British design loosing its power. They are trying to be modern, but forgot to say anything about people, sports, spirit and London… too bad. Had a chance and lost it!

If you want the truth about these Satanic Logos and what is really in store for 2012 go to youtube and type in Gorilla199. If you only knew the truth!

My congratulations to Wolff Olins, the outfit that designed the London 2012 logo. You’ve successfully created the worst looking logo in Olympic history. Even logos from the former communist block outshine you. The fact you guys got paid 400,000 pounds to create such rubbish makes me want to puke! But thanks anyway for making my logos look great in my clients eyes. I now use your logo as an example to my clients of ‘what not to do’ and it works a treat Cheers.

I am probably missing a lot of hidden meanings in the rest of the logos, but I loved the way they played around with the logo for Sydney – Summer 2000, it was not until i found the opera house, the 3 boomerangs, that i enjoyed and liked the logo, it’s all extremely well done. Munich 72 and Los Angeles 84 are way beyond horrible in my humble opinion

yeah i like the 2012 too, but beijing was the fascinating one for meeee

Poor London!

Taking into account the importance of the event, I think the London logo is one of the worst logos ever “designed”. A logo must “speak” visually, no matter the language or the design explanations behind it. Es uno de los peores logos jamas diseñados.

Wouldn´t it be interesting (just for fun) to make some proposals and post them in some social network? (facebook, flicker)?

1st: Thanks for collecting and posting these logos. A great design study!

Squaw Valley started the trend toward modern design among the Olympic logos. It would be nice to see that in color. I really like Atlanta as well. Nice use of color, type, simple lines and organic shapes. Mexico 68 and Calgary 88 are cool too. Very memorable and fitting. Nagano 98 is nice but would have been better without the grey “shadows”.

I really to like the 2014 Sochi Olympics logo by Transformer Studio (the one that was not chosen). It lives and moves and speaks in context—which is what it should do.

I agree strongly; London 2012 is NOT good! It’s not interesting, there’s no “Ah-Ha”, no relationship to place or sport or anything.

RE: London’s 2012 Logo and everyone’s negative reactions.
Your not supposed to like it. It’s designed for imprint on your mind the staged false flag operation they have planed for it.
Just look at the Munich ‘72 logo and what took place there.
Wait and see.

I love:

Innsbruck – 1964
Nagano – 1998
Sydney – 2000
Turin – 2006

And the London one? aaahhhh……..it’s going to be a strange 2012.

I really like what Vancouver has done with their logo. It is easily recognizable, displays the olympic colours and shows Canadian character well. I think its one of the best logos of all.
the London design is aiming I think too much to young teens with a throw back to wild crazy and loud 80s colours. Its a very of the moment logo which will feel very dated very quickly and I just don’t like it.

Also like: Sydney, Nagano and Calgary.

I’m very partial to the Calgary 1988 winter games and also the Salt Lake City 2002 winter games.

RE: I like the Vancouver winter games for this year.

As for the london games in 2012, I hope they didn’t pay actual money for that monstrosity.

I’ve always been a fan of Otl Aicher’s designs for the 1972 Munich Olympics, especially the logo. There have been some nice ones since, but was Munich’s that made the tide mark.
Nice collection.

It is really a nice collection of logos.Cool stuff!!!

I love the 2012 logo: combining the characters “2012″ and a stylised man dancing – genius.
It’s bold, it’s striking, and it conveys the festival spirit that London is aiming for.

Good – Salt Lake, Sapporo
Bad – is London’s 2012 thing even a logo?

Damn, that London logo still scares me! I’ve avoided looking at it but now that I see it, it still gives me that uneasy WTF feeling. Has anyone seen the NFL’s Superbowl 2011 standardized logo recently done for next year? The Blue Hairs have totally castrated the image with a lack of inspiration and imagination.