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Olympic Pictograms

submitted by LarsaruS

1 decade 4 years 1 month 3 weeks ago

Via Neatorama:
"Designer Steven Heller gives an overview and critique of Olympic pictograms used over the past 74 years for the New York Times. When you only see these every few years, you don’t realize how different they are for each Olympiad."

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I'd love to see the same pictograms judged by someone who isn't a "designer". These images are made to please the fans of the games, not those with an overactive sense of the aesthetic.

I know lots of people would say the Sydney boomerang style ones were a lot cooler than the rather plain Chinese ones. Same goes for the Salt Lake City ones, which this guy seems to fail just because they had straight lines.

Designers, critics, specialists, etc. rarely seem to have the same tastes as the masses these things were made for.

here's what we have to look forward to in 2012 :

more on that story here:
http://boingboing.net/2007/06/04/london-2012-olympic-.html

ant

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/02/24/sports/olympics/pictograms-interactive.html for the original source.

Lots of images in http://1stmuse.com/pictograms/ ...

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