The Los Angeles 1984 Olympic Games logo somehow embedded as my platonic ideal of design for sport. It evokes nylon track suits, national pride, and the indefatigable power of motion lines.

2004 was a landmark year for the Olympics as it was the first time the modern Games returned to the land of their birth. And the logo design chosen to represent the event encapsulated that perfectly.

The Paralympic logo is referred to as the Agitos, which means 'I move' in Latin. It shares some of the intended symbolism of the Olympic rings, but it also has it's own story.

It has become the basis upon which logos for the Games are built. With the next Summer Games in Paris in 2024, it’s worth looking at the first city to design its own Olympic logo .

There is no doubt that to create a new Olympic Games logo and visual identity is one of design’s toughest branding challenges. As well as preserving the foundations of the event’s long-term ...

The Art Deco-inspired design combines three images: a gold medal, the Olympic flame and a pair of lips meant to evoke Marianne, the French national icon. At least that’s what Paris 2024 ...

Critiquing Olympic logos can seem as much a sport as the Games themselves. Case in point: This list from the AIGA’s Eye On Design, in which legendary graphic designer Milton Glaser rates every ...

Last week, Olympic organizers presented an earlier version of Sano's Tokyo 2020 design to try to defend him. But now questions are being raised about whether that design, with one triangle in a ...

On July 17, 2019, for example, this image was shared on Reddit under the caption: "The 2020 Tokyo Olympic logo is a masterclass in design." This image is so frequently shared as if it were the ...

Organizers of the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo said they would scrap the official logo for the Games, following allegations that the logo’s design had been plagiarized.