stampdesigns:

postage stamp designs by Lance Wyman for 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico

(above “Juegos De La XIX Olimpiada 1968” commemorative sheet features some of Wyman’s Olympic sports pictograms and a line pattern design with Mexico68 logotype) 

new Banksy street art honoring Olympics

Street artist Banksy unveils two new pieces of graffiti art featuring Olympic athletes unofficially for the London 2012 games. There’s a a slight twist for the pole vaulter and javelin thrower)

(via designkuma / design:related)

Team GB LEGO Minifigures

In honor of the London 2012 Olympics games, LEGO is releasing 9 special edition figurines just for the UK market in July. The athletic characters include the Brawny Boxer, Stealth Swimmer, Relay Runner, Judo Fighter, Tactical Tennis Player, Flexible Gymnast, Wondrous Weightlifter, Horseback Rider, and the Agile Archer.

(via Toysnbricks)

vintage stamps for the Olympic Games

“Designing the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics”

“The Vancouver Olympics begin this Friday. It’s true, they won’t be quite the design extravaganza that London 2012 will be—but there’s still going to be hundreds of millions of dollars in design on display, everywhere from the uniforms to the buildings to the branding…” —Cliff Kuang for Fast Company

(slideshow via Fast Company, above Victory Ceremony podium designed by James Lee and Leo Obstbaum)

“…A nine-year-old girl has become the first child to design a British coin…”

Girl, 9, wins silver with her Olympic 50p coin
(discovered via Times Online)

The Olymperials is a great archive of original Olympic posters from around the world (over 3,100 images in collection!). I wish that there were illustrator and designer credits included for all posters, but as many of these are so rare and old it’s probably very difficult to track them all down.

above poster c.1948

(first discovered via a time to get)

benjaminf:

Two months from now the International Olympic Committee will name the host city of the 2016 Summer Olympics. If the decision were based solely on identities, which candidate would win?

(via Race for the 2016 Olympics on idsgn (a design blog))

proposed posters for the 2012 Olympics by Alan Clarke
(discovered via kottke)