Olympics

Design critique of the Chicago 2016 Olympics logo

Mayor Daley and Chicago unveiled their logo for the bid to have Chicago host the 2016 Summer Olympic games. VSA Partners’ Chicago office designed the logo. Here’s my critique of the logo: Flame It’s said that the skyline seen in the olympic flame represents how Chicago rose out of the ashes of a fire. That’s …

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2006 Winter Olympics Mascots: Neve and Gliz

From the olympic site: “Neve”: she is a gentle, kind and elegant snowball; “Gliz”: he is a lively, playful ice cube. They are the two symbolic characters of the XX Olympic Winter Games. They complement each other and personify the very essence of winter sports. The mascots were born from the pencil of Pedro Albuquerque, …

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299 more days until the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy

The Olympic countdown is on! Here’s a stickie note cartoon based on an IM conversation with MrBilly. I will be posting more stickie note cartoons on this blog. They are just quick fun things that might develop into a comic strip. But for now, they are just capturing different dialog ideas in a comic strip …

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Athens 2004 torch relay

Athens torch is a pen

The 2004 Olympic torch looks like a pen. Is there some significance to this?