Olympic Games

Far in advance of every Olympic event, the logo for the Summer or Winter edition of the Games are designed.

Even before a city is chosen, it has become a tradition to design a logo and branding for every city that's in the bidding for hosting the games. Because of huge competition and because when the logo is chosen it will appear just about everywhere for at least half a year and the 5 to 6 years awaiting the Games, the quality of these logos is very high.

Also most logos hold some same ingredients. First of all the logo of course should have something unique regarding its host, secondly the Olympic rings should be in it and optionally most times a person or persons figure in the logo displaying the joy the Olympics bring.

Because logos are designed so long in advance of the actual games on goodlogo we try to list logos based on their creation year, not their operational year.

For more history on the Olympics please also see: http://en.beijing2008.cn/spirit/symbols/emblem/

Olympic Games logos by year of the games or when known by year of design:

** tagged logos are/were candidate logos used in the bids of the host cities. These are no official logos, but are only listed because they make an interesting 'good' logo.