Olympic Posters

The Olymperials is an cool collection of original Olympic Games posters, housed in Annecy, France, and now available to view online. The site has been getting some press on non-cycling blogs, so I thought I'd do a post and focus on the cycling posters.

Mexico 1968

Munich 1972

Montreal 1976

Moscow 1980

Los Angeles 1984

Seoul 1988

After 1988, the posters get a bit, well, crap. Some of the designs are, frankly, feckin' woeful. But the earlier posters, like the ones above, are great. It's interesting how the variety of posters produced for each Olympics really explodes in the 1960s, from one or two per games before that, to over two hundred produced for the 2004 Athens Olympics. It really is a great collection, I recommend checking out the page here.