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You probably know that the Paris 2024 Olympic Games start today whether you've seen the official Olympics poster design or not. Some might even argue that in an era of mass digital media, the Games no longer need much promotion at all. It was a different story in the past, when the best Olympic Games posters helped establish the event as a major global spectacle.
Below we pick out our favourite posters for the Olympics from the past 120 years. For more on the history of the Games' branding, see our pick of the But by the second decade of the 20th century, the International Olympic Committee had realised that poster design could be a powerful way to promote an event that was originally intended to showcase art as well as sport . Today, each Olympics Games tends to have several poster designs commissioned to honour this historic connection.depict a stunningly detailed"fantasy city" within a stadium, blending famous Parisian monuments with motifs from the games.
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