Almost a quarter of a century after the end of National Socialism in Germany Otl Aicher was commissioned to design the cheerful Olympic Games in Munich 1972. He systematically and scientifically approached this task and liberated visual communication from national pathos by reducing it to the essential in the Bauhaus sense the use. The manual completed in 1967 contains a flexible system of colors forms and fonts on twentytwo foldout sheets that enabled Aichers team and partners to play freely