Living in Vancouver, Canada, I’ve been seeing the logo of the upcoming 2010 Winter Olympic Games more and more around the city as the date draws closer.

I thought it would be interesting to take a look at how the design trends in Olympic logos have evolved over the years.

Noticeably, the logos seem to have changed from a monochromatic trend to a more multicolor approach in recent years.

Logo design seems to have been streamlined to simpler and cleaner shapes. This article features every logo from the summer and winter Olympic games from 1924 to 2012.

Paris – Summer 1924

Lake Placid – Winter 1932





Los Angeles – Summer 1932





Garmisch-Partenkirchen – Winter 1936





Berlin – Summer 1936







St. Moritz – Winter 1948





London – Summer 1948





Oslo – Winter 1952





Helsinki – Summer 1952





Cortina d’Ampezzo – Winter 1956





Melbourne / Stockholm – Summer 1956





Squaw Valley – Winter 1960





Rome – Summer 1960





Innsbruck – Winter 1964





Tokyo – Summer 1964





Grenoble – Winter 1968





Mexico – Summer 1968





Sapporo – Winter 1972





Munich – Summer 1972





Innsbruck – Winter 1976





Montreal – Summer 1976





Lake Placid – Winter 1980





Moscow – Summer 1980





Sarajevo – Winter 1984





Los Angeles – Summer 1984





Calgary – Winter 1988





Seoul – Summer 1988





Albertville – Winter 1992





Barcelona – Summer 1992





Lillehammer – Winter 1994





Atlanta – Summer 1996





Nagano – Winter 1998





Sydney – Summer 2000





Salt Lake City – Winter 2002





Athens – Summer 2004





Turin – Winter 2006





Beijing – Summer 2008





Vancouver – Winter 2010





London – Summer 2012

Which is your favorite logo and what do you think of the logos of the upcoming Vancouver and London games?