The Olympic Games celebrate feats of strenuosity and endurance — but nobody would care about these contest if they were n’t promoted by keen accomplishments in graphical innovation . Check out all the spectacularly designed poster for the preceding 120 years of Olympic Games .
1896, Athens
( viaBritannica Kids )
1900, Paris
( viaAmazon )
1904, St. Louis
( viaStephen ’s Liberal Journal )
1906, Intercalated Games, Athens
( viaWikimedia Commons )
1908, London
( viaAlphabetilatelyandChristie ’s )
1912, Stockholm – the first Olympic Games with an official poster
( viaFashionistas )
1916, Berlin, the first cancelled Olympics
No official bill was issue , but the artwork on the stamp include above would have been the prescribed artwork for the Games .
There was an unofficial 6th Olympiad in Amsterdam , which has a poster , design by Jan Willem Sluiter :
( viaAlphabetilatelyandGraham Budd Auctions )
1920, Antwerp, Belgium, where Austria, Bulgaria, Germany, Hungary and Turkey were banned because of World War I
( viaChristie’sandcolorlib )
1924, Paris, designed by Jean Droit
( viaVictoria and Albert MuseumandChristie ’s )
1928, Amsterdam
( viaWOWWorksandDigital post horse Collection )
1932, Los Angeles
( viaThe Museum of the San Fernando Valley )
1936, Berlin
( viaE - Verse Radio )
1940, Tokyo, cancelled due to Sino-Japanese War in 1938
( viaReport of the Organizing Committee on its work for the XIIth Olympic Games of 1940 in Tokyo / PDF )
1940, Helsinki, also cancelled because of WWII
( viaVictoria and Albert Museum )
1948, London
( viaParag Sankhe )
1952, Helsinki. The poster was the same that they wanted to use on the cancelled 1940 Olympic Games.
1956, Melbourne. Australians had an equine quarantine, so the equestrian events were held in Stockholm.
( viadhubandChristie ’s )
1960, Rome
1964, Tokyo
( viaGurafikuandPink Tentacle )
1968, Mexico City
( viaOlympic Artifacts )
1972, Munich
( viaHeritage Auctions , Universtypeface , Hugo & MarieandDigital Poster Collection )
1976, Montreal
( viaOlympic Artifactsandcatster )
1980, Moscow
( viamr magoos milk truckandPinterest )
1984, Los Angeles
( viamr magoos milk truck )
1988 , Seoul
( viaDigital Poster Collection )
1992, Barcelona
1996, Atlanta
( viaYouTheDesigner )
2000, Sydney
( viaGazeta do Povo )
2004, Athens
2008, Beijing
( viaGazeta do PovoandXinhua )
2012, London
( viaArtatm )
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