Ah yes, the three seasons: Summer, Winter, and Horse.

@janmamu8721

2 жыл бұрын

🐴

@orionliketheconstellation3003

2 жыл бұрын

tag yourself im horse

@Insert-thing-here-Fan

2 жыл бұрын

H o r s e

@jackdubz4247

2 жыл бұрын

People sleep on Horse season far too much.

@requiem6465

2 жыл бұрын

Hbomberguy: *TRIGGERED*

I mean, I can’t blame the England 1948 emblem designer for wanting to show off one of the 3 buildings we had left tbf

@KariIzumi1

2 жыл бұрын

Is it wrong that I laughed at this? 🤣

@DavidWsTrainVideos

2 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@Gemmabeta

2 жыл бұрын

the 1948 London Olympics was nicknamed the Austerity Games because they spend no money on it (not that they had any money to spend). Then ended up housing the athletes in various army barracks and college dormitories around London.

@livispuzzled

2 жыл бұрын

@@KariIzumi1 i shouldn’t have laughed at this

@pirukiddingme1908

2 жыл бұрын

@@KariIzumi1 hey I’m English and I laughed. But then again I hate London so take it with a pinch of salt

Opening the Sydney 2000 discussion by saying "I love you Australia" after misspelling Sydney is a bold choice.

@fntthesmth423

2 жыл бұрын

don't worry he corrects it to Slippery in the next video ^_^

@LlamasAtMidnight

2 жыл бұрын

@@fntthesmth423 Squiggly

@fntthesmth423

2 жыл бұрын

@@LlamasAtMidnight The Great City of Spaghetti

@jacksea3814

Жыл бұрын

As someone from a state other than Newcastle, Sidney, Wollongong I'm for it. In fact, I'm never spelling it any other way now, no matter what the Sidneysiders want to say about it.

@forivall

9 ай бұрын

There's also a municipality on Vancouver Island near Victoria BC called and spelled "Sidney"

As a Mexican Graphic Designer, the emblem and the overall branding created for Mexico City '68 is an absolute must in our college education, haha. Happy to see it well-received in this.

@bfure1

9 ай бұрын

I love that they kept the text for the 1970 world cup as well

@louiseogden1296

8 ай бұрын

Stare at it long enough and you start hallucinating despite not taking anything. It is a classic of psychedelic art :).

@CM73878

8 ай бұрын

Mexico 1968 was the absolute peak of olympic logo design. So very clever. I am amazed at how poor the US efforts are - the US has some great graphic designers but their attempts are simply not up to standard.

@CM73878

8 ай бұрын

Interestingly, the Mexico logo was reflected in a local tv station ident in the U.K. available on KZread - it was for Harlech Television from 1968. Worth a look but could only be broadcast in black and white.

@boredross

3 ай бұрын

Just don't research what happened to some protesting students before the games started

I'm very much here for "Graham talks about graphic design for 45 minutes"

@matpk

2 жыл бұрын

compare 1930s Nazi Germany Vs 2020s Communist Chinazi IN YOUR NEXT VIDEO Project.

Please never hesitate to produce content that is just "forty minutes of Graham talks about something he is interested in." I am here for this sort of content, and the Baxter cameo was an excellent bonus.

@DanteTorn

2 жыл бұрын

This feels like a condensed Talking Simulator stream.

@RentonBrax

2 жыл бұрын

Wife just asked why I was watching something on Olympic logos. "Because Graham talks good."

@paulmurgatroyd6372

2 жыл бұрын

A cat is always worth extra clicks, Baxter knows this.

@traviswrigg5158

2 жыл бұрын

This was rad and I want more of it. Moar. Moar! MOAR!!!

@TuesdaysArt

2 жыл бұрын

I've never even watched this channel before, but this kept appearing in my recommended and I'd totally subscribe if he made more stuff like this.

fun fact about mexico city 68 they even made hats and dresses, so you could go full 60's fashion craze WITH the olympic logo

Also the logo for Mexico 68 was inspired by the patterns of the Huichol, an indigenous people of Mexico. ♡ ♡ ♡

Looking forward to the followup videos of "Graham discusses every Olympic bid logo chronologically" and "Graham tears apart every Olympic mascot, from least-to-most terrifying"

@thebreckify

2 жыл бұрын

oh yes pealse

@TheJohtaja

2 жыл бұрын

Bartleby et al. discuss the mascots, hmm?

@DomenBremecXCVI

2 жыл бұрын

Surely he'd tear them apart from least to most recent.

@lisaedwards6621

2 жыл бұрын

I'm british and a graphic designer. The 2011 London Olympics mascots were.... a choice!

@mona-mo3sd

2 жыл бұрын

omg YES i'd love to see a ranking of the mascots

"It's Athens, you know, it's where the games started" Olympia: "...and I took that personally..."

@MrDelvoye

2 жыл бұрын

maybe hes referring to the modern one

@aegisofhonor

2 жыл бұрын

you're right, it never actually took place in the actual city of Athens, as a matter of fact, it took place a good ways from the city (at least by foot), a good 50 miles away.

@wdwfanatic1394

2 жыл бұрын

He's talking about the modern games, which DID begin in Athens

@nils0a

2 жыл бұрын

@@aegisofhonor What the hell are you talking about

@graysonbyass-rascoe4326

2 жыл бұрын

Mj: that's when I took it personally

Besides subtly showing the letters R-I-O, the Rio 2016 logo also resembles one of the city’s most iconic landmarks: the Sugar Loaf Mountain.

For Barcelona 92, it's worth keeping in mind the yellow and red are also the colours on the Catalonia flag so I wouldn't be surprised if it was a sly reference to the independence movement of that region.

@DanideLouro

9 ай бұрын

But that are also the colors of the Spanish flag, and considering blue is the royal color in Spain, it might be actually the opposite: The Spanish government forcing a "national" logo instead of a more regional one.

@rin_etoware_2989

8 ай бұрын

​@@DanideLouroyou say that, but the official Catalan flag is also just red and gold. the Catalan independence flag though? red, gold, and *blue.* (plus a white star)

@DanideLouro

8 ай бұрын

@rin_etoware_2989 Yeah, it could be a nod to the independence movement, but with a nationwide effort involved in it, I think that the opposite is more likely.

This is the most Graham content you've ever made, Graham. Please make more.

@zimmercj

2 жыл бұрын

Now we need Beej and Ian to critique the mascots.

@Brainthought

2 жыл бұрын

Yes!

@darth_prentiss

2 жыл бұрын

I could not agree more.

@praetorianmerchant

2 жыл бұрын

I agree- keep Graham'ing it up and I'll be here forever.

@zfjosmadhen1212

2 жыл бұрын

Production is so good too! I love this

“It’s no Tokyo ‘64” is now a phrase I shall integrate into my normal conversations.

@marycanary86

2 жыл бұрын

i saw a (spoof??) suggestion for a tokyo 2020 logo that had the oplympic rings all normal, except that the red ring was the japanese sun and honestly, that would have been some tokyo '64 stuff, if it had happened

Mexico 68 is my favourite one: thick and kind of hypnotic, iconic from a crazier time

when i was like 8 years old (2008?) i had a folder on my pc that i would download every single olympics logos, world cup logos etc. in it. when i had nothing to do and was bored, i would just open those folders and scroll thru them commenting on them by myself. i feel like i just did the exact same thing but with someone else this time. thanks for making me go back in time, it was a fun 45 minutes.

The content KZread needs, but not the content it deserves

@nuggetstheunicorn1592

2 жыл бұрын

Hey I definitely deserved this

@empath69

2 жыл бұрын

@@nuggetstheunicorn1592 oh *we* do deserve it, but not KZread™

The Rio logo of the three figures also subtlety hides the letters R I O.

The image that they gave to the Olympic Games in Mexico '68 with that branding was titanically incredible, beautiful, it was the first country brand that Mexico had and with it the Mexican Department of Tourism was founded. That branding left a great mark on Mexico City, the metro stations have the aesthetics of the icons of Mexico '68, the same for the Central de Abasto, the largest market in the world, many of its stores are marked with icons that preserve the aesthetics of Mexico '68. The Olympic Games gave another face to the most important capital of Latin America.

As a Sydneysider, mispelling "Sydney" renders everything you said irrelevant. Joking aside, we all disliked the Sydney 2000 emblem: see the blue zig-zag (meant to represent the Opera House) as hair, the red boomerang as lips, and the middle yellow bits as an eye and moustache, you get the face of a man with a painful, constipated expression. We loved the bid logo though.

@benstaude101

2 жыл бұрын

Well that is how Juan Antonio pronounced it 🤣. The bid logo was so much smarter than the one we went with.

@HF-dv5vv

2 жыл бұрын

The Sydney logo is the best one! It’s boomerang limbs to give it a distinctly Australian take on the running, each a distinct colour to reflect the colours of Australian environments. Plus he’s running beneath the shape of the opera house so we know where in Australia this is and the angle of the blue can also be the Olympic flame as well. Unlike any of the other designs the meaning in the logo is layered and nuanced. It’s perfect.

@jasonstray9582

2 жыл бұрын

I also loved some of the branding that was done for the Sydney 2000 games, especially as seen on Ansett Airways special liveries leading up to the games. And who can forget Syd, Millie and Olly (The real best Olympic mascots). Moreover I hate how graphic designers obsess over the phrase Its very dated..... when everything we look at as cool now will be considered "dated" in the near future. I quite like designs from the late 90's to the early 2000's as it showed a time of optimism and looking forward to the future with bright colours and shading, a lot of things now just seem very bland or looking to the past for "inspiration"

@ARCtheCartoonMaster

2 жыл бұрын

I was, like, 3 or 4 when the Sydney Olympics occurred. I remember seeing that logo everywhere, but I had no idea what it was for. I also remember getting the Happy Meal plushies of the mascots - Ollie the kookaburra, Syd the platypus, and an echidna whose name escapes me - but again, having no idea what they were for. I think it was when the Beijing Olympics came around 8 years later that it finally clicked for me. Also, I just Googled it, and the echidna's name was Millie. There was also a frilled lizard mascot named Lizzie, though I have *no* memory of her, so I'm guessing she got sidelined a bit. It's funny, because there was 90s childrens cartoon called _Blinky Bill_ that also had a frilled lizard character, named Ruff, who also got Chuck Cunningham'ed early on, so I'm guessing frilled lizards aren't particularly popular despite their iconic appearance.

@TheLoopyTiger

2 жыл бұрын

I always thought the Sydney logo looked like a cheap piece of knock-off Ken Done tourist tat.

Personally, my three favorites Olympic logos are Mexico City, Barcelona and Rio de Janeiro. The Barcelona one reminds me my teen ages and a turning point in the world history. Mexico City logo is vanguardist and reflects the intensity of 1968. Rio logo is pure energy and tropical environment.

@wetasspaddington

3 ай бұрын

absolutely the correct opinion yes !

A lot of those unsuccessful bids were gorgeous logos. Shoutout to the Beijing, Sydney, and Madrid bids in particular, but all the ones you showed looked really nice.

@CleverCrumbish

9 ай бұрын

The Denver one in particular gives me pause because I think it looks ugly but I totally get what they're going for with it nonetheless and it's really clever.

The "Nagano" name in the 1998 Winter Olympics logo is in the font Basilea-same font used in the Sega Dreamcast logo.

The Tokyo 64 logo has aged incredibly well. I could totally see a different logo in that exact style being used today.

@clorox1676

2 жыл бұрын

Did it aged well or we got suck into the same kind of asthetics again?

It would be neat to see a breakdown of Olympic mascots!

@TARDIS915

2 жыл бұрын

As someone from Atlanta, I kinda hope he'd just skip past ours which was literally drawn by a kindergartner, if I was told correctly.

@RaymondHng

2 жыл бұрын

Or an analysis of the design Olympic torches for each Olympic Games. One of them looks a stylized fly swatter. Another looks like a candy dish.

@marguskiis7711

2 жыл бұрын

Moscow80 wins again

@angiepaige19

2 жыл бұрын

I would watch the heck out of those kinds of videos. (Both mascots and torches) I’ve kind of been hyperfocused on the Olympics and there’s surprisingly not much content that’s informative out there.

@magg0t_zz

2 жыл бұрын

@@TARDIS915 wdym Izzies got the drip

i like how he says "Mexico 68 just flexed it's machine guns and the others just looked down before it"

I love the london bid for 2012. The subtle tracing of the ribbons imitating the river thames was simple yet unique conpared to a lot of the other logos

MEXICO’68 🇲🇽 definitely one of the best logos in Olympic history!

We need a series of these where Graham rates random things like movie posters and album covers.

@MarlaDesat

2 жыл бұрын

I would watch that!

@WarPenguinDude

2 жыл бұрын

If he wants to stay on the topic of the Olympics for a bit, I’d love to hear his thoughts on the mascots!

@LlamasAtMidnight

2 жыл бұрын

War Penguin yes. Just yes

@FrankiePeanuts

2 жыл бұрын

@@LlamasAtMidnight Good news. Mascots are next.

Seoul 1988 is a stylized tri-color Taegeuk, which is a symbol related to the two-color Taegeuk that appears on the South Korean flag

The Munich design suite- especially the posters and pictograms are seen as one of the high points of clean, modern graphic design, and a game changer The 'wreath thing' is the 'bright sun'... I think you under value it immensely.

@beomkyu0730

7 ай бұрын

Yes!!! I agree 1000% He should explore Munich in more detail! I love the design of Munich 1972

@ryanking6422

4 ай бұрын

Munich's branding is easily the most impressive total work

37:33 correction. Denver was actually a successful bid city. The city, after local voters objected to it, opted out of hosting after already being awarded the games.z that’s why Innsbruck hosted in 1976, so soon after having previously hosted

@maxnyc212

2 жыл бұрын

I was going to add that correction as well. 😊

@janetracer

2 жыл бұрын

I was hoping someone would mention this.

@AbiGail-ok7fc

Жыл бұрын

Which makes the reuse of the logo very fitting, as the whole reason Innsbruck was picked in 1976 was to be able to reuse what was already there.

It took me half of the video to realise that he’d been changing the music along with the decades. Nice touch.

The Athens logo isn't just a symbol of peace, an olive wreath was the prize you won at the ancient games. There were no medals etc, the wreath from an olive tree was the ultimate prize.

A bit of correction on 37:37 Denver '76 isn't an unsuccessful bid. It's a bid that won the right to host the winter olympics of that year, but the city voted against the games funding in 1972, therefore Innsbruck was rushed to host the games just 12 years after they did it first time, hence the logo of 1964 games being reused.

Fun fact, the 1970 FIFA World Cup used the same logo font that they used for the '68 Olympics

this guy pronouncing melbourne correctly makes me so so happy

@wollo6

2 жыл бұрын

and you calling that grating pronunciation "correct" makes me cringe

I LOVE the Mexico City one and the Munich one because they looked so good in printed materials. Maybe they're not as nice to look at today when it's mostly screens that make the branding work, but at the time they fit really well the purpose they were intended for.

I always liked the Athens 2004 emblem, the olive leave. So simple yet so posh and elegant and symbolised the ancient reward the olympic champions would get.

@Vaxeri

2 жыл бұрын

I like it too. I just wish the olive branches were drawn more elegantly.

33:00 if I'm not mistaken (and I'm not Greek nor Athenian), the Olive Branch does pertain to Athens specifically because of one of its founding myths, that is, the time Poseidon and Athena competed for being the patron god of the city; Poseidon offered a salt-water spring, and Athena offered the Olive tree. You can guess which olympian became the patron of the city of Athens (Sorry for butchering the myth)

@Jsdo1980

8 ай бұрын

Isn't it supposed to be a laurel?

@trillaco1

8 ай бұрын

@@Jsdo1980 no, olive tree is correct, back then it was one of the most important crops that existed in the mediterranian area, that produced both food and oil (which is also food but has other uses)

@Jsdo1980

8 ай бұрын

@@trillaco1 Sorry, mixing up the terms in laurel wreath. I'm not a native speaker, so I didn't know that laurel was the plant. It's a wreath made from olive.

My wife worked at the 2012 London games and I have nothing but good memories from the games. So I actually really like the logo because of the feelings it evokes. It is demonstrably terrible but I can’t bring myself to dislike it. That said it does look like adult Lisa Simpson doing something very rude. Once that’s pointed out you can’t unsee it.

@castafiorept7309

2 жыл бұрын

Noooooooooooooooo now that's going to be stuck in my mind forever....

@LucyLive91

2 жыл бұрын

I worked London 2020 also and liked the logo but in the pink that it actually was in not the white

@Matt-zd3wt

2 жыл бұрын

I saw that Lisa meme once in 2012 and it's still all I can see when I look at that logo

@ezlu77

2 жыл бұрын

NOOOOOOOOOOO

@quinhoprimeiro1049

2 жыл бұрын

... but, can we all agree to stop sex-chaming? oral sex is a valid part of human sexual activity no need to be called rude...

The 1972 Summer Olympics emblem may leave much to be desired, but the mascot for the games was a dachshund named Waldi and I think his design is pretty cute!

I really love the RIO one, because it has so many references!, the theme for the games was respect of diferences, so each person being a different color and all of them being connected, represented that, but also! it represents a land mark of Rio, the sugar loaf mountains! I found it very cute and clever all around!

@JulioTheSilva31

2 жыл бұрын

also the logo itself spells "Rio", each person is playing a different sport (green: volleyball, yellow: handball and blue: diving), it's 3d (!!!!!!) and the font is AMAZING! that "16" achieved something I thought it was impossible: to overcome the "!6" from the bid logo. it's brazilian, it's carioca, it's sporty Am I biased, since I am myself a carioca and worked for the olympics? maybe! but just like graham said, it's just my opinion! hahaha

@emimonsterlicious

8 ай бұрын

100% agree the Rio one was great

The 2016 Rio's logo also shapes the Sugar Loaf, a well known landmark in the city

@yorkshireball_mapping

2 жыл бұрын

That sounds yummy

Graham: Spells Sydney as Sidney, Also Graham: "I love you Australia"

@JayJay-dp8ky

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah. Sydney's wasn't that good, but all I remember from Sydney Olympics was the wombat mascot with the massive arse.

@TinaTissue28

2 жыл бұрын

@@JayJay-dp8ky Everyone I know keeps on talking about how great Sydney olympics was (I was too young to remember), but I do remember the three mascots vaguely. I just know they wouldn't have aged well at all from my memory

@IBrowneeI

2 жыл бұрын

@@JayJay-dp8ky There wasn't a Wombat among them. Was a Platypus, Echidna and Kookaburra. Syd, Millie and Olly. Also a Frill-Neck Lizard for the Paralympics named Lizzy... cause apparently they used their symbolism up with the main three. As for the games, I mean... I was ten years old at the time, I remember it reasonably fondly in the sense that the Torch looked cool and damn near every Australian Athlete they hyped up got a medal of some sort. Kinda one of those scenarios where it was nice to watch your home country win a decent amount in their own country. _Course the absolute best moment in the Olympics for Australians ever didn't come until the next Winter games in 2002 with that legendary speed skating gold from Steve Bradbury,_ but hey, plenty of medals at home was good to see too.

@hardcoreharro

2 жыл бұрын

@@JayJay-dp8ky Fatso the Wombat was actually a parody mascot, from Roy & H.G.

I started this video looking at the runtime and was like "ehhh, I'll watch the first 2 minutes of it"... what felt like 2 minutes later Graham says "ok bye" and I was completely entertained without realising the time passed. Very nice video!

i honestly really love seeing the emblems change over time! i like the 40's london games logo with the clock tower! it is very wood carving-esque but it's beautiful!

Stumbled upon this and I loved the deep dive. Here for any more deep dives into design of things

This is basically the only Olympic content I'll consume this year

@ericmarquis319

2 жыл бұрын

This, and the clip of the one guy doing Franky's pose from One Piece

@audreyodonnell166

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah this was just really easy and relaxing to watch

@wannabehistorian371

2 жыл бұрын

@@ericmarquis319 Wait, context?

@ericmarquis319

2 жыл бұрын

@@wannabehistorian371 kzread.info/dash/bejne/n2qgkq5pnMSaf7Q.html

You realise of course this means we'll be chasing your opinion for all the upcoming Olympiads

@StefanWB

2 жыл бұрын

The one for Paris already exists, and raises an obvious question: why does that Olympic torch have lips? EDIT: Also the Beijing 2022 logo is going to have the same font issue that Graham had with '08, but the actual logo is pretty fresh, IMHO.

I remember watching the 2010 Vancouver Olympics live, and that combined ski-snowboarding slope was possibly the best thing I've ever seen in a sporting event. I've never been so on edge as I was watching everyone fall over and dogpile almost immediately out of the gate, it was amazing.

I didn't realize that the London 2012 logo had 2012. I thought it was just a collection of shapes until now.

The brush strokes for Barcelona '92 were evocative of the work of Joan Miro. They did all the event pictograms in the same style. This was the start of the move away from the old standard pictograms to having them integrate with the overall brand.

You are very correct on the Vancouver mascots being the best. I was a kid when the games happened and I remember huddling around my moms laptop to watch the little animations they made about them. My dad volunteered at the Vancouver game and brought home me and my brother plushes of them and I keep them on my shelf to this day

I've always loved the little suggestion the Montreal 1976 logo is meant to represent the 3 peaks of Mont-Royal, the mountain in the middle of the island that gave the city its name. So simple and yet it may contain the most meaning of any logo (M, maple leaf, podium, running track).

@emiriebois2428

2 жыл бұрын

La majorité des montréalais ne savent même pas l'existence des 3 sommets .

2 жыл бұрын

@@emiriebois2428 c’est pour ceux qui le savent 😘

@egemensentin

8 ай бұрын

I thought the top part of the logo looked more like a stylized fleur-de-lys than a maple leaf, but what do I know?

tokyo 64 looks like something that could even be used nowadays

Getting to chill and hang out for a while with Graham as he gets nerdy about stuff he likes? Why yes, I liked it.

Very cool video!! The Barcelona 92' one is reallly loved in Spain by graphic designers because represents the transition of the Spanish design to a new modern era

@ecannon9507

2 жыл бұрын

I love it too!

33:05 In the logo it wasn’t the olive branch, symbolising peach but the Laurel leaf crown that was the awards of the winners! Back in the day, the award to the champions were the Laurel leaf crown and the respects of his city. When Romans discovered the Hellenic culture and adopted the Olympic Games they introduced the cash award!

You hits vein of one of my favorite hobby - graphic design for olympic posters.

"Graham talks about graphic design" is my favorite genre

Love the video Graham, fyi there is a whole 99% invisible podcast about the graphic design of the 68' Mexico City games logos and motifs.

Great video. The Rio 2016 is shaped like the Pão de Açúcar (sugar loaf) mountain, so it's more clever than it looks.

The Inukshuk used in the 2010 Vancouver Olympic emblem is actually in Vancouver on a point between Sunset Beach and English Bay. It was located there after Expo 86 where it was used in front of the Northwest Territories pavilion.

As a resident of London, you cannot possibly hate the 2012 logo more than we do.

@StefanWB

2 жыл бұрын

Seconded. It was a joke before the Games, it was a joke during the Games, it was a joke ever since the Games, it's been mocked by every angle of British culture. It's pretty much objectively horrid.

@JulioGA14

2 жыл бұрын

At least you remember what it looks like haha

That was really neat! I don't think I'd actually seen a lot of the logos before. Yeah Innsbruck 1976 was in a rush because that was the year Denver won the bid and then backed out because nobody in Colorado wanted to pay taxes for it. Looking at Barcelona 1992's logo I think it was inspired by Joan Miro, one of the surrealist artists from Barcelona. He has a period where he did that kind of minimalism.

Your pronounciation of Garmisch-Partenkirchen was actually awesome! And the Baxter cameo was really cool!

I know Albertville 1992 is supposed to be the flag of Savoy...but the resemblance to the Super Smash Bros symbol is uncanny Also, you were right to say the Vancouver one was based off an Inukshuk in Vancouver. It was based off one built by Alvin Kanak for Expo 86 that has since been donated to the city and now on English Bay Beach. The one in Whistler that you showed was built AFTER the logo was unveiled to further promote the Games

@realhawaii5o

2 жыл бұрын

Hello Avery, I see you everywhere.

@ARCtheCartoonMaster

2 жыл бұрын

The first thing that came to my mind was the flag of Denmark.

@mattburke1869

9 ай бұрын

I was thinking Denmark

i'd love to see you review the submitted but unused logos and compare them to the official logos! like comparing the london 2012 submitted logos to the one they chose to use (why!) and which they should've gone with!

Today I learned my favourite Olympic snowflake logo is that of Sarajevo '84. What a delightful way to spend the better part of an hour stuck at home sick. Thanks Graham!

Your explanations are awesome. I think You know the meaning of what each nation intend to imply in their logos...which is great.

I like how you skirted around the fact the Montreal logo is clearly someone flipping the bird.

I enjoyed the parade of logos and your commentary. As a stamp collector in my youth, I enjoyed seeing all those old graphics again. Having been born and raised in Montreal, I certainly liked the simplicity of the 1976 logo. I remember reacting to the 2012 London logo - expecting something historical and elegant. "What!!! That can't be right!? C'mon!" (by the way, the locals just call it "Garmish")

Japan adding a snowflake to the 1972 logo to make it look different from 1964: Sometimes my genius is...it's almost frightening Rest of the world: Hey, I've seen this one! Japan: What do you mean, you've seen it? It's brand new! When we do host the games, we will do the ceremonies in our world's largest stadium, Rungrado May Day Stadium, and put on a display the world will never forget. Just like we do with our Arirang Mass Games

@KyeThePie

2 жыл бұрын

Pyongyang 2036 and onward !!! It shall be the only new Olympic city for eternity

@LlamasAtMidnight

2 жыл бұрын

Kye Dalgleish isn't that supposed to be Brisbane?

@KyeThePie

2 жыл бұрын

@@LlamasAtMidnight Brisbane is 2032 but PYONGYANG WILL BE 2036

15:10 These 1964 Tokyo graphics are all absolutely stunning.

One of the better “random subject” KZread videos I’ve come across. Many thanks!

The music is so good: changing to match the period, attentions to detail down to the music cutting out at awkward moments. Graham continues to astonish me with his editing skills.

The Albertville Logo reminded me of the smash ball.

@GrahamStarkVlogs

2 жыл бұрын

YES!!

The logos of Mexico 68, London 2012 and Los Angeles 2028 are so far the ones I like the most from the Olympic Games.

I love this please do more of these types of videos! Maybe like evolution of company logos? Country flags? Anyways I love this it makes me happy, calm, and I’m learning!

What?? The whole Munich Olympic design was outstanding! You can't just stare at a single element by itself!

@Braun30

8 ай бұрын

I loved the symbols used to indicate the competitions.

Man I loved the Rio one. The colours are great - the way the gradients were done really help make the colours not clash, and the font is evocative and ties into the movement of the logo too - finally there are the stories you can make up about what’s happening in the logo itself. For me that one is A+, easily in top 3. And this is good content, Graham 🙂

@camomila5156

2 жыл бұрын

Essa logo também tem o formato de um dos pontos turísticos mais famosos do Rio de Janeiro: o Pão de Açúcar. Além disso, forçando um pouco, dá pra ler "Rio" ali, mas é se esforçando pra abstrair. Sem falar que é tridimensional. Algumas curiosidades só

@ecannon9507

2 жыл бұрын

It’s also meant to depict Sugarloaf Mountain.

Randomly came across this video and recognized you immediately from LoadingReadyRun. I was a little disappointed not to find a whole channel of videos like this, you should definitely make more content commenting on graphic design for logos etc., I found it really interesting!

Graham whether you admit it or not you are a dream and a half and I appreciate your effort and hard work.

This was very enjoyable. I'd love to see a similar video with you ripping apart the visual styles for the Eurovision Song Contest, which is a live television show that has been held yearly (*) since 1956. There's lots of visual identities and progress in those, while also having a similar theme of peaceful competition and getting to know eachother! (* Covid kind of ruined that streak in 2020...)

You have this talent at making a subject one might not be terribly interested in, and making us actually-very-interested in. I could watch you talk about things like this all day. (And kinda do rewatching Loading Ready Live so much)

Munich 72 is inspired. It is taught in graphic design classes around the world. It’s a fantastic, all encompassing design system, not just a logo.

I kind of like how the Barcelona 1992 emblem is evocative of Joan Miró's art. Fitting for the city. Koreans were underwhelmed by the Pyeongchang 2018 logo, and it emerged that Choi Soon-sil, a daughter of a cult leader and confidante to the disgraced President Park Geun-hye who was impeached and removed from office a couple of years before the Olympics, was heavily involved in pushing for the five colours used in traditional Korean art (obangsaek). Everything Choi touched seemed to use this colour scheme, so when the political scandal broke out there was a huge backlash against it, but it was probably too late to change the emblem. The emblem probably would have worked better with a cleaner colour scheme and less spindly lines, though I'm not in love with the overall concept.

38:05 London's logo has actually been one of my favorites for a reason I haven't been able to confirm was intentional: the logo itself looks like the UK and Ireland - the 2 is in the position of Northern Ireland, the 0 is Scotland, the 1 is Ireland, the dot is Wales, and the other 2 is England

@clopec

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe the small one is Island of Man...

@yorkshireball_mapping

2 жыл бұрын

@@clopec isle of man*

@anthonyalzamora4566

2 жыл бұрын

I never thought of the logo that way, I’m currently comparing this logo to the map of the UK and Ireland and I can kind of see it

Please analyze the mascots, that would be fun

The logo for the 2016 Rio Olympics is the shape of the Sugar Loaf, famous landmark there.

I'm Canadian and I always thought the Montreal games logo was just a 3D version of the Olympic logo turning the 2D loops into 3D cylinders

Extremely sleep deprived from moving apartments this week which resulted in a split second where my brain tried to figure out what D&D/fantasy map was behind Graham before quickly realizing it is a map of Europe -_-

@blade6321

2 жыл бұрын

I'm trying to figure out what year it is from!

@Vaderi300

2 жыл бұрын

@@blade6321 circa 1910s I'd guess, it looks pretty similar to the older Diplomacy boards.

For Sarajevo, I think you might have missed a design element of the snow crystal, they also form a ring of 4 people with their arms up.

Thank you. I enjoyed the logos the history... would be interesting to have you do the mascots

I live in Chicago, and while I've got some real ambivalent feelings towards our bid for the Olympics, by the gods was our proposed logo *great*. Chicago, knocking out of the park in graphic design as usual.

Graham, the amount of editing and sourcing you did for this is incredible. Wonderful job, wonderful commentary. Thank you!

I do like in the Atlanta one how the 100, the rings, and the little line above it make sort of a brazier for the flames, that's very clean. And the green background is because of all the trees and greenery in Atlanta.

@robadams42

2 жыл бұрын

That shade of green with the gold border is very late 90's to me for some reason

@trishayamada807

2 жыл бұрын

I liked Atlanta’s the best overall but I loved the so called boring winter ones from the 30s.

@JulioTheSilva31

2 жыл бұрын

all the ideas in this logo are clever, but they shouldn't be used at same time.. it could be just the flame-to-star (different color scheme, PLEASE! and don't you dare say "red, white and blue"), typemark and rings (in gold)! oh, and a white background!

Montreal's also looks a lot like a fleur-du-lis as well. Great series of videos!

I'm from Grenoble and i forgot we had the Winter Olympics once (despite it being pretty much the only thing we're known for internationally as far as i'm aware) so seeing that city name in a canadian video gave me whiplash. Glad to see the logo was cute :^)