ooh, look - a halfway decent olympics logo

What they never tell you before you become a designer is that the whole business is based upon the 'feast or famine' principle. Well I've already had my share of this year's famine, but fate determines that it now wants to pile it on from every possible direction. So I've got my nose to the grindstone: don't expect much from me this week as a result. You lot will just have to wait, I'm afraid.

But here's something to keep you happy in the meantime. A wonderful flickr set of mid-70's logos (via the always-reliable O.K. Blog).

Comments

[wez]

Excellent logo. Love the logo work produced mid-late 70's. Type at the top of its game as well!!

[Alistair Hall]

You can read more about the Montreal design over here: http://wemadethis.typepad.com/we_made_this/montreal-olympics-1976.html

[davidthedesigner]

Thanks, Alistair. Interestingly enough, I see that you could have come up with that same link if you'd dug around in my archive: http://www.davidthedesigner.com/davidthedesigner/2007/07/some-more-about.html

[Pete]

I'm not sure when they set out the new guidelines but current logo submissions aren't allowed to show the Olympic Rings or torch until they're chosen as the final logo.

It's a bit of a shame because the Olympic Rings are a pretty spot on piece of logo design and, as you've just proven with the Montreal design, a great foundation to start from. The 2012 logo is a great example of Designers working to a brief that has very little to do with the final brand, making the end result look a little out of place...

[company logo design]

Well don't know whats going on but its not a Good way to do this. in my opinion we have to look again about this issue