mattygs Posted January 31, 2015 Report Share Posted January 31, 2015 With the recent reveal of the Rio torch relay and relay logo, thought it might be a good time to head back and look at some of the different logos used for their part of the look of the Games. Favourites? Barcelona 92 Lillehammer 94 Atlanta 96 Nagano 98 Sydney 2000 Salt Lake 2002 Athens 2004 Torino 2006 Beijing 2008 Vancouver 2010 London 2012 Sochi 2014 Rio 2016 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victor Mata Posted January 31, 2015 Report Share Posted January 31, 2015 Some are cooler than their respective Olympic Logos, IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotguy Posted January 31, 2015 Report Share Posted January 31, 2015 My personal favourite is Barcelona, as it is a simple deviation from the main Olympic logo which I think was the games that began the modernised Olympic logos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattygs Posted January 31, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 31, 2015 As nice as the Sochi and London graphics are, I do prefer the runner based logos of the Sydney era. I think Athens and Lillehammer would have to be my favourites. As far as Rio goes, I've loved their look of the Games so far, but this one is a little bit of a miss for me. It seems very static. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob2012 Posted January 31, 2015 Report Share Posted January 31, 2015 Have to say most of these have passed me by, but looking at them all lined up like that SLC and Beijing stand out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TorchbearerSydney Posted January 31, 2015 Report Share Posted January 31, 2015 Torino is just soooo stylish.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ikarus360 Posted January 31, 2015 Report Share Posted January 31, 2015 Sydney, Torino and Atlanta were my fave ones. I also liked their uniforms (then again the overall look of Atlanta and Torino were memorable). The Rio relay logo is ok, simple but i feel its missing something, for some reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baron-pierreIV Posted January 31, 2015 Report Share Posted January 31, 2015 Sochi and Salt Lake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Usa2024olympics Posted January 31, 2015 Report Share Posted January 31, 2015 Salt Lake 2002 and Athens 2004 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intoronto Posted February 1, 2015 Report Share Posted February 1, 2015 Athens stands out, while London's is the worst imo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olympiaki-agones Posted February 1, 2015 Report Share Posted February 1, 2015 Torino and Barcelona Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TorchbearerSydney Posted February 1, 2015 Report Share Posted February 1, 2015 The Rio Torch Logo is a bit of a 'lump'...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olympiaki-agones Posted February 1, 2015 Report Share Posted February 1, 2015 O logo do Rio é chato Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
afiqnadzir Posted February 1, 2015 Report Share Posted February 1, 2015 yeah.london worst..vancouver& athen look cool..unique n original Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baron-pierreIV Posted February 1, 2015 Report Share Posted February 1, 2015 This thing is getting overblown. It's merely an ID for a much larger event. It's NOT like this is the badge of the whole Games -- which is why some of them are kinda clunky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ikarus360 Posted February 1, 2015 Report Share Posted February 1, 2015 London was the worst on the aspect it was lazy, they just colored the logo (which was something that already sucked) gold. Sochi was also somewhat lackluster since it just reused things which were done already in the brand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob2012 Posted February 1, 2015 Report Share Posted February 1, 2015 London was the worst on the aspect it was lazy, they just colored the logo It wasn't "lazy" at all - that was the whole point of London's logo, it was a shell that could be used across many applications giving instant recognisability, and it worked. You might not have liked it, but you don't need to deliberately miss the point! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TorchbearerSydney Posted February 1, 2015 Report Share Posted February 1, 2015 London's relay logo was totally uninspiring ...I don't think the supposed ever changing 'shell' motif was very evocative of London, the Olympics, the modern world or anything else.... and polls showed people generally didn't like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMarkSnow2012 Posted February 2, 2015 Report Share Posted February 2, 2015 London was the worst on the aspect it was lazy, they just colored the logo (which was something that already sucked) gold. Sochi was also somewhat lackluster since it just reused things which were done already in the brand. The thing was though, during the 2012 relay itself, the logo was almost irrelevant. What was shown on TV was the torch itself; and "live" what was more noticeable was the sheer size of the accompanying convoy- nobody was looking at the logo. Overall, it's noticeable that the relay logos shown here with sponsor logos included tend to suffer by comparison with relay logos which are shown on their own. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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