Comments on: Olympic pictograms through the ages

By: Paul Charles Fisher

Paul Charles Fisher — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 07:59:29 +0000

Love the two you mentioned, but I’m partial to the Greece pictograms. I’ve been to Greece twice, and was more fascinated with the ancient art than anything else. The Greek meandering design, for instance, has been in Greek art and architecture since as far back as 3500BCE. You can see this design in the Knossos Palace on Crete, which dates back to the Bronze Age. Hope my designs last that long!

By: Gunnar Andreassen

Gunnar Andreassen — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 14:01:30 +0000

The munich 1972 pictograms are classic.

By: Webtwist

Webtwist — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 12:49:58 +0000

My favourite pictograms are the ones of munich 1972: clear structured and kept simple

By: Robert Keniston

Robert Keniston — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 04:48:45 +0000

I loved this retrospective of the olympic pictograms, however, disappointed that the pictograms from Torino where not included.

Torino has a great identity system and feel they should be included at the top. It was all about energy and motion and looked beautiful.

Here is a link: http://images.beijing2008.cn/20070505/Img214050907.jpg

By: Stephen Carr

Stephen Carr — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:12:02 +0000

Great stuff here, design can never be to important. Its the first thing people see and we are living in a visual world. Its also usually what sells clients, if they like what they see they will hire you!

By: Tjeerd van Sas

Tjeerd van Sas — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:39:27 +0000

To be honest: I’m not that fond of those two post-1984 “good” pictogram sets either.

This is going to sound harsh, but the Athens and Chinese icons give me the feeling both organisations found a caveman and gave him a crash course in Illustrator. Granted, they’re both better executed than the caveman design of Lillehammers pictograms, but the first is too over-the-top wannabe-classical and the second are too much of squiggly lines to me.

Might be a nice contest/research: ask graphic designers to create they’re own vision of Olympic pictograms.

By: Daphne

Daphne — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 23:05:06 +0000

Loved this post.
Your a great designer.

By: Matt Symes

Matt Symes — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:18:51 +0000

Thanks for adding this…great to see the good, the bad, and the ugly…

By: David Airey

David Airey — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:43:28 +0000

Some beautiful animation work in that video, Mark. Cheers. Some of the athletes seem a little fake (like the hurdler at the end), but overall it’s great.

By: Mark McCorkell

Mark McCorkell — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 10:35:34 +0000

This is the moving image artwork I was referring to - Youtube video. Loved this.