Comments on: 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics logo. Who designed it, what it means & why some don’t like it.

By: Nils Geylen

Nils Geylen — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 01:23:30 +0000

No prob. Loved it.

By: Steve Douglas

Steve Douglas — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 01:16:56 +0000

@ Petter – very interesting stuff. Thanks for adding this info to the post.

By: Steve Douglas

Steve Douglas — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 01:15:56 +0000

@ Nils – thanks ever so much for your kind and generous comment. Greatly appreciated.

By: Nils Geylen

Nils Geylen — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 19:08:49 +0000

You have an awesome, entertaining and refreshing writing style. A breather from all the other logo and design sites. They’re dry, don’t tell stories, don’t mix in their own feelings about the subject.

In fact, most of them now seem boring.

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By: Von spoonlicks

Von spoonlicks — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 20:52:07 +0000

Certainly isnt great for actually using it because it needs to be on white, its got no borders so unless its on white its very hard to see. So for that reason it effectively has a white box on the design too really or a huge white area.

Also the font looks a little stretched

By: Petter

Petter — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 17:31:08 +0000

I like the general graphics of the Vancouver 2010 profile, but the logo itself is nothing very special. Note that although it has a coloured ring version, it is commonly depicted with light blue rings underneath, in place of the coloured.

Since LA 1984 games multicolour logos has been commonplace, except Calgary 1988 (which logo is only red and black) and Salt Lake 2002 (which like Vancouver has a multicolour emblem, with single colour rings). Also Atlanta 96 has gold rings, but they appear on green background and are then not allowed to be coloured – the first logo to use negative colour rings since Grenoble in 1968.

Fun fact: Before WWII only North American host cities featured multicoloured rings. After WWII only LA 84 of all North American hosts has used colours as far as I know. Lake Placid 1980 didn’t even have rings in the official logo I believe.

Worth noting is that originally the colours of the rings and the white background (of the flag) is reflecting the colours of all the flags of the participating nations at the time.