Olympic Posters through History.

Posted by Miss Cellania in Sports on July 18, 2007 at 6:55 am


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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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7 comments to "Olympic Posters through History."

  1. geoff pedder
    July 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??

  2. Nick Gisburne
    July 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!

  3. meg
    July 18th, 2007 at 10:50 am

    the mexico one was painful to look at.

  4. A.Non.E.Mous
    July 18th, 2007 at 11:27 am

    OMG...that makes you realize how terrible the London 2012 logo actually is.

  5. Chris
    July 18th, 2007 at 2:22 pm

    London 2012 : Tetris gone bad

  6. ted
    July 18th, 2007 at 6:38 pm

    This poster also doubled as a homoerotic Nazi deodorant ad.

  7. Alex
    July 28th, 2007 at 9:31 am

    Yeah, modern Olympic posters suck! Wherefore art thou graphic illustrators?


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