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Olympics in the air


With the Olympics fast approaching and after the headache (not to mention his heart attacks) mentioned in this previous post about the artist who designed the Beijing Olympics Mascots, lets take some time to enjoy the posters from the previous Olympic Games.

Go to this website to view them all.

This entry was posted on Monday, July 28th, 2008 at 3:55 pm and is filed under Events, History, Illustration, Posters. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

2 Responses to “Olympics in the air”

  1. rodge
    July 28th, 2008 16:17
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    They’re by and large uninspired.
    The ’32 LA poster looks like it’s for a boy scout jamboree.
    Wurbel’s ’36 poster gets the ball rolling, but after that only Munich, Moscow, Barcelona and Atlanta have any flair. They even re-used Finland’s cancelled 1940 poster for the ’50 games, just with new dates! What a bunch of cheapskates!

  2. stephen
    July 28th, 2008 16:35
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    Otl Aicher’s super 1972 Munich Olympics work

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/aicher/

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/tvvork/sets/72157594335169821/

    some posters here too:
    http://www.internationalposter.com/search-results.aspx?keywords=olympics