2012 Olympic Sports Pictograms

Biles

The 2012 sport pictograms have just been released i was just wondering what all the cycling ones are?



Some of them just look like riding at different angles to me :?

AidanR

BMX, XC, road, track, tri

I guess.

fungus_the_muffin_man

1st I bmxing
2nd mtb downhill,
3rd road race
4th velodrome racing

Biles

Ah that makes more sense. I was thinking they'd added cyclocross or something

deptfordmarmoset

There's a 5th one, about 4 rows down. Looks like it might be triathlon to me, but I've no idea really

fungus_the_muffin_man

Yeah triathlon is a olympic sport. I believe we've a good chance of golds in it.

Steve_b77

BMX, XC, Road & Track

There's no way on this planet that DH will make it into the Olympics despite the UK being a hot bed of talent with the last two mens World Champions, and a female World champ or two.

They wouldn't hold the XC racing outside of London, there sure as hell no hills big enough to hold a UCI level DH competition on inside the M25

Chrissz

Where did you find them? They would be good to use in some of my presentations - do you have a link at all?

Cheers

deptfordmarmoset

Chrissz wrote:

Where did you find them? They would be good to use in some of my presentations - do you have a link at all?

Cheers

They're on here: http://www.london2012.com/about/our-bra ... ograms.php

You might find the source from there - I don't know where the OP got them from though.

Chrissz

Cheers mate

Chip \'oyler

I don't know what you lot think but they're rubbish.

Compare them with the design classics from the 72 Munich Olympics

Biles

I quite like some of them.

The Munich ones don't even look like sports

STEFANOS4784

Some interesting things here:
http://creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/200 ... pictograms



Well interesting might be a bit strong lol :arrow:

Biles

Whats the bottom row, second from the left, suppose to be. Just looks like a guy with very out of proportion legs.

soveda

Biles wrote:

Whats the bottom row, second from the left, suppose to be. Just looks like a guy with very out of proportion legs.

The Judo or the Modern Pentathlon?

Garz

deptfordmarmoset wrote:

There's a 5th one, about 4 rows down. Looks like it might be triathlon to me, but I've no idea really

That or they expect an event called "sh!t I have a puncture".

STEFANOS4784

Biles wrote:

Whats the bottom row, second from the left, suppose to be. Just looks like a guy with very out of proportion legs.

What on the Munich ones? Think it's star jumps :?

Biles

Yea on the Munich one. I dont recall ever seeing a sport where you can only compete if your legs are longer than the average giraffe

Monkeypump

6th row down, 2nd from left - dramatic wheel-change in the road race?

Le Commentateur

The Munich ones don't even look like sports

Ours are a sort of dumbed down version for people who aren't comfortable with modernist design. These are more 'picture' than 'logogram'.

The black ones, because of their background shape, can't help but be compared unfavourably to the classics from 68 and 72, but the two-colour versions on white are rather beautiful, vibrant and light -- and above all, don't look like feeble derivatives of Aicher's.



And they have potential for development outside of directional signage context:



Easy to imagine them in animated form as TV graphics too.

pottssteve

The first one's turning me on..... :oops: