Stylogeny combining Cobi and Mariscal's Barcelona '92 Mascot Graphics × Munich 1972 Olympic Design

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Cobi and Mariscal's Barcelona '92 Mascot Graphics × Munich 1972 Olympic Design

The rational pictogram grid against a single drawn mascot; mixing them shows how much a hand-drawn character loosens an institutional system.

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HelloCobi and × Munich 19721987 · 1966
A sample layout drawn from the recipe: shapes from Cobi and Mariscal's Barcelona '92 Mascot Graphics, their arrangement from Cobi and Mariscal's Barcelona '92 Mascot Graphics, the finish from Munich 1972 Olympic Design. Not a real work, and not an image of either style.

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What each style brings

Each part of the design comes from the style with the stronger say in it, and each style gives at least two.

Cobi and Mariscal's Barcelona '92 Mascot Graphics Munich 1972 Olympic Design (Otl Aicher)

Type from Munich 1972 Olympic Design
Colour from Munich 1972 Olympic Design
Form from Cobi and Mariscal's Barcelona '92 Mascot Graphics
Composition from Cobi and Mariscal's Barcelona '92 Mascot Graphics
Surface from Munich 1972 Olympic Design

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The type

Open fonts standing in for each style’s own type, which is often hand-drawn or commercial.

Display · Munich 1972 Olympic Design

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Inter Tight, standing in for Univers (Adrian Frutiger, 1957), the only typeface of the Games' official communications, with Univers 55 as the house weight

Text · Cobi and Mariscal's Barcelona '92 Mascot Graphics

A mascot-led strand of the Barcelona '92 Games, narrowed here to the character and not the emblem or pictograms. Javier Mariscal's Cobi, an orange Catalan sheepdog in a Cubist manner after Picasso's Las Meninas, brought a cartoon grin to the Games, then spread to statues, a fountain and a cartoon series. It was initially criticised by Catalans who felt Mariscal was less worthy than Miro or Gaudi to represent them.

Archivo; Cobi and Mariscal's Barcelona '92 Mascot Graphics used Hand-drawn lettering and Generic rounded hand-drawn comic caps

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The colours

The ground and leading colours come from Munich 1972 Olympic Design, with a counter-accent from Cobi and Mariscal's Barcelona '92 Mascot Graphics. The ink reads on the ground at 4.5:1 or more.

Cobi and Mariscal's Barcelona '92 Mascot Graphics Munich 1972 Olympic Design (Otl Aicher)

  • #9ccf7c ground · 36%
  • #141414 ink · 14%
  • #49aa76 accent · 18%
  • #f28c1c accent · 14%
  • #8a96c4 accent · 10%
  • #e63027 accent · 8%

As CSS

:root {
  --ground: #9ccf7c;
  --ink: #141414;
  --accent-1: #49aa76;
  --accent-2: #f28c1c;
  --accent-3: #8a96c4;
  --accent-4: #e63027;
  --font-display: "Inter Tight", sans-serif;
  --font-text: "Archivo", sans-serif;
}

Use it with care

Munich 1972 Olympic Design (Otl Aicher): The Olympic rings are a protected IOC mark and the Munich posters, emblem and pictograms are the work of named designers: borrow the method (one grid, a light landscape palette, grid-drawn figures), not the artefacts. The 'cheerful Games' are also bound up with the Munich massacre of 5–6 September 1972, when Black September gunmen killed 11 members of the Israeli team; use the identity's optimism knowingly.

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The two styles

An orange cartoon cat in a white shirt, red shorts and blue sneakers rides a red skateboard along a waterfront, with a sailboat, blue buildings, a palm tree and a yellow sun behind it. Large blue and red lettering above reads “MOVE TOGETHER.” 1987–1992 · Southern Europe Cobi and Mariscal's Barcelona '92 Mascot Graphics A mascot-led strand of the Barcelona '92 Games, narrowed here to the character and not the emblem or pictograms. Javier Mariscal's Cobi, an orange Catalan sheepdog in a Cubist manner after Picasso's Las Meninas, brought a cartoon grin to the Games, then spread to statues, a fountain and a cartoon series. It was initially criticised by Catalans who felt Mariscal was less worthy than Miro or Gaudi to represent them. A sports poster reading “open together” shows three overlapping, differently coloured images of a runner above a tent-roofed stadium and a curving athletics track. A vertical strip of six sports pictograms runs down the left, with a large orange circle at the upper right. 1966–1972 · Central Europe Munich 1972 Olympic Design (Otl Aicher) The visual programme Otl Aicher's department made for the 1972 Munich Olympics, the 'cheerful Games' meant to show a democratic, modest West Germany. One grid and one typeface, Univers, governed tickets, programmes, uniforms, signs and posters. The colours were the blues, greens, silver and oranges of the Bavarian landscape, with red, black and gold kept out. Sports pictograms drawn on a 45-degree grid and posters made from photographs reduced to flat bands of the official colours became a model for event and wayfinding design.

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