terry foster Posted June 5, 2007 Share Posted June 5, 2007 This logo has just been released in UK. This 400,000 GB Pounds logo is for the 2012 London Olympics, critics branded it "hideous and uninspiring". What do you think? i am sure most of you on here could do a better job, for a lot less money too.<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ellis_vener_photography Posted June 5, 2007 Share Posted June 5, 2007 Cool brittania! Be a brit different! Mother Knows Best! Are you really surprised? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dzeanah Posted June 5, 2007 Share Posted June 5, 2007 Funniest quote: "it looks like Lisa Simpson is doing something Marge wouldn't approve of...." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terry foster Posted June 5, 2007 Author Share Posted June 5, 2007 I am surprised at the cost (i would do them one for a 1000) and also this logo took nearly 2 years to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terry foster Posted June 5, 2007 Author Share Posted June 5, 2007 Yes that quote was a gem Derek. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john_macpherson Posted June 5, 2007 Share Posted June 5, 2007 It's a load of bollocks. But it accurately reflects the fractured state of the UK.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike_stemberg Posted June 5, 2007 Share Posted June 5, 2007 Hehe Terry ...I hope the cost will STOP at ?400.000 GBP.... ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terry foster Posted June 5, 2007 Author Share Posted June 5, 2007 Like the bollocks bit, so long as all the Londoners are paying for it all! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terry foster Posted June 5, 2007 Author Share Posted June 5, 2007 It will go up more just like wembly, the above statment did not apply to you Mike :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William Kahn Posted June 5, 2007 Share Posted June 5, 2007 From the point of view of a Yank, maybe it was the only thing they could come up with that wouldn't offend some ethnic minority group? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terry foster Posted June 5, 2007 Author Share Posted June 5, 2007 True you always offend someone with anything nowdays,i may have offended someone just by posting this :-( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terry foster Posted June 5, 2007 Author Share Posted June 5, 2007 Sorry about the spelling (just looked) i am doing other things too, thats my excuse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven_clark Posted June 5, 2007 Share Posted June 5, 2007 It's positively hideous. Why orange of all things? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobatkins Posted June 5, 2007 Share Posted June 5, 2007 From USA today: "...LONDON (AP) ? An animated display of London's jigsaw-style 2012 Olympics logo, which has drawn an unfavorable public response, was removed from an official Web site Tuesday following concern it could trigger epileptic seizures..." Not quite sure what any of this has to do with photography though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnw436 Posted June 5, 2007 Share Posted June 5, 2007 Well, true- but this IS 'Casual Conversations' after all. This logo is terrible, but there was a worse one once upon a time. Anyone remember the logo from the Atlanta games? I'll have to do a search for it. (If all copies ever archived haven't been destroyed for the sake of posterity.) The same uproar went across the US at the time. Let me go see if I can find it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnw436 Posted June 5, 2007 Share Posted June 5, 2007 His name was "Izzy" http://www.awn.com/mag/issue1.4/articles/kowalskizzy1.4.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ken_jeanette1 Posted June 6, 2007 Share Posted June 6, 2007 Here we call it money laundering. There has to be a place you say you spend sums like 400,000 GBP as you use it for off budget projects, graft etc. To paraphrase a line from a recent movie in the US, do you really think a toilet seat could cost $30,000? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven_moseley1 Posted June 6, 2007 Share Posted June 6, 2007 ...the thick end of half a million squid...and all it achieves is several epeleptic seizures.... ...welcome to Blairs Britain. WHAT A PILE OF CRAP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alec_myers Posted June 6, 2007 Share Posted June 6, 2007 I think it's excellent. And sooo much better than the dull, boring, corporate Olympics logos of the last 40 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geoff_foale Posted June 6, 2007 Share Posted June 6, 2007 The official answer is:- If people are talking about it then it is a success. If only we could have spinners like this in our cricket team! We just can't win - and we are still paying for the Millennium Dome fiasco. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtwhite Posted June 6, 2007 Share Posted June 6, 2007 <p>If this is their attempt to appeal to the young media-saavy generation, then (speaking as a young media-saavy person) they blew it big-time. I didn't even recognize those disjointed shapes as numbers until it was specifically pointed out to me. <p>Here's some <a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2007/06/04/london_2012_olympic_.html">additional hilarity</a> on the whole mess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terry foster Posted June 6, 2007 Author Share Posted June 6, 2007 Thanks for the response. The bbc have had some logos sent in by veiwers, this is my number 1, it only took 30 mins to make too.<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geoff_foale Posted June 6, 2007 Share Posted June 6, 2007 Suppose I shouldn't really criticise without offering an alternative. The main text font is Crazy Loot in gullible green with a melting pound symbol and the date in the red is Vagabond, which we will all be shortly afterwards. ps. this took me 15 minutes so how much an hour is that.<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnw436 Posted June 6, 2007 Share Posted June 6, 2007 NUMBERS YOU SAY? The logo is made up of numbers? Where? Does that half million pounds include glasses for everyone to see more clearly, or at least a pair for the artist? I thought it was one of those prints that hang on a wall where if you stare at it long enough you see dinosaurs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike_stemberg Posted June 9, 2007 Share Posted June 9, 2007 An <a href="http://www.gopetition.co.uk/petitions/change-the-london-2012-logo.html"> online petition </a> calling for the logo to be scrapped gathered 48,615 signatures by the time its organiser announced on Thursday he had decided to close the petition for fear of causing further damage to the London Games reputation. <br><br> Full text is :<a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/11716ff6-1457-11dc-88cb-000b5df10621.html"> London Olympic logo row goes global......</a> from FT.com. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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