A Look Back – Summer Olympic Logos

1924 Summer Olympic Games – Paris, France

1932 Summer Olympic Games – Los Angeles, U.S.A.

1936 Summer Olympic Games – Berlin, Germany

1948 Summer Olympic Games – London, Great Britain

1952 Summer Olympic Games – Helsinki, Finland

1956 Summer Olympic Games – Melbourne, Australia

1960 Summer Olympic Games – Rome, Italy

1964 Summer Olympic Games – Tokyo, Japan

Tokyo 1964 wins the gold for minimalizm, with its entry of a great cicrle over the Olympic rings, rendered in gold.

1968 Summer Olympic Games – Mexico City, Mexico

Top honors for psychedelic yumminess go to Mexico 1968, which embraced the percepts of op art to full dizzying effect.

1972 Summer Olympic Games – Munich, Germany

1976 Summer Olympic Games – Montreal, Canada

Call me a jingoist, but the Montreal Olympic logo from 1976 is one of the best. It shows the rings of the Olympic logo moving toward each other, reinforcing the unity and the brotherhood of nations that the Games are meant to promote. Well done Montreal. (Is there a best in show award I can hand out?)

1980 Summer Olympic Games – Moscow, USSR

1984Summer Olympic Games – Los Angeles, USA

1988 Summer Olympic Games – Seoul, South Korea

1992 Summer Olympic Games – Barcelona, Spain

The 1992 Games in Barcelona have a Matisse-like quality to them (during his ripped-up-construction-paper phase) that roughly suggest a man in forward motion in a very Spanish palette. I like this one a lot.

1996 Summer Olympic Games – Atlanta, USA

2000 Summer Olympic Games – Sydney, Australia

2004 Summer Olympic Games – Athens, Greece