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
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??
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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!
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the mexico one was painful to look at.
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OMG...that makes you realize how terrible the London 2012 logo actually is.
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London 2012 : Tetris gone bad
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This poster also doubled as a homoerotic Nazi deodorant ad.
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Yeah, modern Olympic posters suck! Wherefore art thou graphic illustrators?
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