I’ve always been quite impressed by how you design a logo for a big event, whether it be a sporting or some other type of event. We might not think much about the logos in our daily lives but the logos are still those small things that remind us about the event. Even if it’s a bad logo it’ll make us remember the event. A lot of time and money is spent on coming up with a great logo but sometimes it just seems like the designers didn’t get any response from the outside world. In these cases it seems like they found something they liked and didn’t give it a second thought or researched it more. An example of a bad choice of logo can be seen in the 2012 London Olympics
Almost immediately after this logo was released it sparked a lot of debate around the world and hundreds of Facebook groups was started. Specially this group became widely popular: 2012 OLYMPICS LOGO LOOKS LIKE LISA SIMPSON GIVING HEAD. Now I’m not going to talk about this logo nor about what it’s supposed to look like. No I’ll try to just show you some of the latest Winter Olympic logos.
Winter Olympic logos 1984-2010:
Sarajevo 1984 // Calgary 1988
Albertville 1992 // Lillehammer 1994
Nagano 1998 // Salt Lake City 2002
Torino 2006 // Vancouver 2010
I think it interesting to see how the logos have changed over this period of time.
Let us know in the comments what Winter Olympic you think was the greatest and why you remember it so fondly.
Personally I remember Salt Lake City 2002 very strongly but I’m not sure why that is. It just seems like that is the Winter Olympics I watched the most and therefore I think that was a great Winter Olympic.
Can you tell some stories about what you experienced at a Winter Olympic?
Edit:
Just found these “10 things you didn’t know about the Winter Olympics”:
1 The 21st winter games take place in Vancouver and Whistler, in western Canada, on February 12 and run for 16 days. It is their second appearance in Canada, having visitedCalgary in 1988.
2 Ireland first competed in the 1992 games in Albertville,France, with a four-man bobsled team and have missed just one games since, in 1994.
3 The event tends to throw up an unlikely hero every so often, with hapless British ski jumper Eddie ‘The Eagle’ Edwards competing in the 1988 games. Ghana’s first Olympic skierKwame Nkrumah-Acheampong, aka ‘Snow Leopard’ is favourite to take that mantle in Vancouver.
4 Fifteen disciplines are competed in during the games across 86 events on the snow and the ice. These range from ice hockey and curling to luge and cross-country skiing.
5 The first games took place in 1924 in Chamonix, France, and they have visited eight countries. They took place in the same year as the summer games until 1994, when the Lillehammergames interrupted the sequence.
6 The closest Ireland have come to a medal came when Clifton Hugh Lancelot de Verdon, 6th Baron of Wrottesley, finished fourth in the Men’s Skeleton event in 2002, at Salt Lake City.
7 Ireland’s 2010 hopefuls include the two-woman bobsled team, skeleton athlete Patrick Shannon and Alpine skier Kirsty McGarry, who will be hoping to improve on her 32nd-placed finish in Turin in 2006.
8 Eighty nations participated in the 2006 games in Turin, a massive increase over the lifespan of the event. Just 16 took part in 1924.
9 Ski cross is making its debut in Vancouver. A variation of motocross, it is a timed racing event that takes in the skills of freestyle skiing.
10 The 2010 games are being organised by Irish emigrantJohn Furlong who hails from Tipperary and played GAA, basketball and handball before leaving for Canada more than 30 years ago, where he became Canadian national squash champion.
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