1968 Mexico City Summer Olympics
1968 Summer Olympics - Olympic Memorabilia
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- Category: 1968 Mexico City Summer Olympics
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Images Copyright © by Ulf Ström
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 Twelve proud horseman await the presentation of medals by Prince Philip at the conclusion of the Three-Day Event. All-around excellence and exceptional performances in the endurance test gave the British the top spot. The U.S. team took its second silver medal in a row, while Australia, winner of the event in Rome, was third at Avándaro. (1968)
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 Presentation box |
 Participation Diploma 1968 Mexico City |
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| Posters were probably the most popular publications in the Olympic Identity Program. They not only served to promote every aspect of the Games and the Cultural Program of the XIX Olympiad, but became coveted souvenirs. Alltogether, 2,120,000 copies of 159 posters were printed in 1968. 18 sports posters totaling 287,000 copies. (Source document: Official Report 1968, Vol. 2, page 298 + 318) |
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Pictograms |
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Graphic designers: Lance Wyman, Eduardo Terrazas
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Tickets |
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| Symbols replace dozens of words on Olympic tickets and along access routes. Created by a group of Identity Program designers, these symbols enabled visitors from more than 120 countries to arrive at the designated hour and locate their seats through correlative symbology at the installation. |
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Picture Postcards |
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The look of the 1968 Olympics |
Designer L. Wyman |
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The look of the 1968 Olympics was described by
"Graphic design became an important visual ambassador for the 1968 Mexico Olympic Games, It was the first time the games were hosted by a Latin American nation. In planning for the games, Mexico, an emerging third world nation, could not afford to make the extensive architectural statement made in Tokyo four years earlier. Graphic design contributed to the ambiance of the Mexican games and helped to make a meaningful visual impact for fewer pesos. I first went to Mexico from New York in November, 1966 with British designer Peter Murdoch to participate in, and fortunately win, an international competition to design the graphics for the Games which would be held in October, 1968. The team that formulated the design program was headed by Pedro Ramirez Vázquez, Chairman of the Organizing Committee and an important Mexican architect. Along with his responsibilities for the entire Olympics. Vázquez took special interest in the design program, enabling rapid development of ideas, keeping everything on track and making sure things were implemented as designed. |
 Lance Wyman Photo: Jonathan Posnett |
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His team of design directors included: - Eduardo Terrazas, for urban design; We were a multi-disciplined, multicultural team that worked efficiently together to design and direct the basic program." As I recall there were only two mandatory requirements; that we use the official five ring Olympic symbol to identify the games, and that we use three languages, Spanish, English and French, for all written communication. The Mexico 1968 logotype, based on traditional forms from the Mexican culture as well as being Sixties Op-art kinetic typography, set the tone for the entire graphics system. It was designed by integrating the official five ring Olympic symbol into the number 68 to create a parallel ine typography that suggested imagery found in Mexican preHispanic art and Mexican folk art. The logotype powerfully expressed a sense of place and culture and visually exclaimed the Games were in Mexico. |
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| Applications ranged from postage stamps to a two ton stadium entrance sculpture. An important kinetic application of the logotype was created by radiating its parallel lines outward, creating an image of Mexico as an emitting or expanding centre. The image was applied as painted wall murals throughout Mexico City, as a cast pattern on the Olympic torch, as film titles, as a postage stamp, as the fabric used for the uniforms of the Olympic guides, as helium filled balloons that identified the Olympic venues from the roadways and as large scale patterns of pure parallel lines painted directly on the plazas of the sport venues radiating outward from the pedestrian entrance portals. It became the Look of the Mexican Olympics. |  |
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The parallel line typeface based on the letter forms of the logotype was used for official inscriptions on coins and medals, for titles in Olympic publications, and to identify each of the sport venues by name on site signs and entry tickets. Written messages in the parallel line typeface were easily recognized as part of the Olympic program. In designing our icons we were lucky to have the icon systems designed four years earlier under the direction of Katzumi Masaru for the Tokyo Olympics as a guiding light. A major difference between Katzumi`s icons and ours is that the Tokyo sport icons were bold stick figures that incorporated the entire human figure. Our sport icons focused on an expressive detail, a part of the athlete`s body or a piece of equipment, creating images similar to glyphs found in Mexican preHispanic cultures. We relied heavily on the sport icons as communicators that could cross cultural and language barriers. |
 Last, but by no meansleast, is colour. Colour and Mexico are synonymous. We used bright colour to code the sport events, the motor routes, the entry tickets, and the seating sections in the venues. We applied colour liberally to postage stamps, publication mastheads, souvenirs, and stadium plazas. Colour helped transform the 1968 Summer Olympic Games into a Mexican fiesta." © 1996, Published by Quon Editions Images: © Lance Wyman; Design: Julia Murdoch, Peter Murdoch & Lance Wyman Thank you very much to Mr. Lance Wyman and Mr. Wei Yew for their friendly support. |
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