Olympic Posters through History.

By Miss Cellania in Sports on Jul 18, 2007 at 6:55 am

Check out this collection of Olympic posters, from 1896 through 2012! Bonus: click on each poster to go to the Wikipedia entry on the games of that year. Link -via Dump Trumpet

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geoff pedder
Jul 18th, 2007 at 7:57 am
most of them are really nice looking, especially the 1930′s to 1950′s era. Then you see London 2012 and want to cry. Why o why did they think that abomination looked good??
Nick Gisburne
Jul 18th, 2007 at 8:42 am
I thought our 2012 logo was bad (and it is), but seeing some of the older ones I am re-assured that Olympic posters throughout history have been equally terrible. Tokyo and Melbourne rank highly, but the winner has to be Mexico 1968 – some kind of hypnotic mind-warping propaganda tool to lure you into the stadium!
meg
Jul 18th, 2007 at 10:50 am
the mexico one was painful to look at.
A.Non.E.Mous
Jul 18th, 2007 at 11:27 am
OMG…that makes you realize how terrible the London 2012 logo actually is.
Chris
Jul 18th, 2007 at 2:22 pm
London 2012 : Tetris gone bad
ted
Jul 18th, 2007 at 6:38 pm
This poster also doubled as a homoerotic Nazi deodorant ad.
Alex
Jul 28th, 2007 at 9:31 am
Yeah, modern Olympic posters suck! Wherefore art thou graphic illustrators?

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