London Unveils 2012 Olympic Logo. . .

[TaylorMade]

LONDON'S 2012 OLYMPIC LOGO REVEALED

Monday June 4,2007
By Polly Buchanan
express.co.uk

EXCERPT:

THE dramatic new logo for the 2012 Olympics was unveiled today - in a series of very bright shades of pink, blue, green and orange as a modern take on the Olympic colours.

But already the public are pouring scorn on the new design. More than 4,500 people had already signed an online petition calling for a new logo within less than five hours of the logo been unveiled at a high profile London press conference.

Claire Allen, 29, a jewellery designer in London, said: "I think it’s a a weird choice. Why didn’t they use the national colours? I think it looks a bit immature and a bit homemade, like someone’s just knocked it up in about 10 minutes.

"It’s a bit weird. Some people wouldn’t even recognise it as saying 2012."

Aranza Gayosso, 21, an art student in London, added: "The colours remind me of McDonald’s.

The Rest Of the Story (http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/8827/London's+2012+Olympic+logo+revealed)

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My English brothers and sisters. . .how the hell did you let THIS happen?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/graphics/2007/06/04/uolympics.jpg

Just... DAMN. It looks like bad 1980's graffiti.

I even said as much on the graphics department blog (http://sedtstudents.blogspot.com/) at my college.

*Taylor*

[darkeyes]

LONDON'S 2012 OLYMPIC LOGO REVEALED

Monday June 4,2007
By Polly Buchanan
express.co.uk

EXCERPT:

THE dramatic new logo for the 2012 Olympics was unveiled today - in a series of very bright shades of pink, blue, green and orange as a modern take on the Olympic colours.

But already the public are pouring scorn on the new design. More than 4,500 people had already signed an online petition calling for a new logo within less than five hours of the logo been unveiled at a high profile London press conference.

Claire Allen, 29, a jewellery designer in London, said: "I think it’s a a weird choice. Why didn’t they use the national colours? I think it looks a bit immature and a bit homemade, like someone’s just knocked it up in about 10 minutes.

"It’s a bit weird. Some people wouldn’t even recognise it as saying 2012."

Aranza Gayosso, 21, an art student in London, added: "The colours remind me of McDonald’s.

The Rest Of the Story (http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/8827/London's+2012+Olympic+logo+revealed)

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My English brothers and sisters. . .how the hell did you let THIS happen?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/graphics/2007/06/04/uolympics.jpg

Just... DAMN. It looks like bad 1980's graffiti.

I even said as much on the graphics department blog (http://sedtstudents.blogspot.com/) at my college.

*Taylor*Is ratha orrible Taylor...but since wen do we hav ne say in wot crap the English get up 2??? tee hee. Whoeva came up wiv it shud find a spade dig a hole an jump in..me help pile the earth up ova him... :bigrin:

[mindfinding]

Now thats why we left the motherland and came to North America.................and we left because of oppression too. But the logo sucks.

[anne27]

It sux, and not in a good way. Blech!

[onewhocares]

Well, so say that this is the most attractive logo, would be a lie. What were they thinking? There are such wonders in the world, why not start with that as a base.

Belle

[Dagni]

Well maybe Bernie Ecclestone was involved in all this about logo. Looks very very "modern".

[Azrael]

An eyesore at best.

[mindfinding]

Az, yeppers.

[JohnnyV]

I hate to strike at raw nerves here, but I have to admit.... the French could have come up with better ideas if they had gotten the 12 Olympics.

J

[*foxy_roxy*]

Wow seriously is that our logo?! That sucks! I think my 10year old cousin could have come up with better?! But then, we never really got a chance to choose, those power hungry morons chose it, ah well, their problem, not ours, we all know that the olympic village wont even be finished by 2012, so its all going to be an embarrassment anyway!
x x x x

[CuddlyKate]

It seems the logo is not only awful it is also unoriginal being inspired, if that is the correct word by a childrens television series of long before I was born called Tiswas. I spoke to my father about it and all he would say was it was very infantile, but that Sally James had large breasts, had a silly fool called Chris Tarrant presenting and also starred Lenny Henry (who is Sally James??? and I prefer to forget Chris Tarrant, although Lenny Henry is funny).

Now I do know about art and design, and this is not the former and a very poor example of the latter. It does seem however that this travesty will contribute £2billion pounds to the games so I suppose it must have something.

Personally I would not pay the designers in washers, and they should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves for spending a whole year coming up with a logo which a small child could easily produce to come bottom of a school art competition.

[TaylorMade]

It seems the logo is not only awful it is also unoriginal being inspired, if that is the correct word by a childrens television series of long before I was born called Tiswas. I spoke to my father about it and all he would say was it was very infantile, but that Sally James had large breasts, had a silly fool called Chris Tarrant presenting and also starred Lenny Henry (who is Sally James??? and I prefer to forget Chris Tarrant, although Lenny Henry is funny).

Now I do know about art and design, and this is not the former and a very poor example of the latter. It does seem however that this travesty will contribute £2billion pounds to the games so I suppose it must have something.

Personally I would not pay the designers in washers, and they should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves for spending a whole year coming up with a logo which a small child could easily produce to come bottom of a school art competition.


I have a feeling even the bottom entry of a school art competition would have come up with something better, foxy. It's just bad all around.

*Taylor*

[CuddlyKate]

I have a feeling even the bottom entry of a school art competition would have come up with something better, foxy. It's just bad all around.

*Taylor*
Foxy? Taylor do you not half have the wrong girl. hahahaha.

[dibbspixie]

i appologise to the world for that logo. it makes me ashamed to be english. how that got picked i will never know, probably a load of government officials picked it after 1 or 2 drinks. all i can say is let me hide my head in the sand.

[meteast chick]

Taylor I'm gonna have to go with you in saying it looks like 1980's graffiti, and not very good graffiti to begin with. Yikes! The most I can muster is saying "I only have English ancestry, really!"

luv and kisses,
xoxoxoxoxoxox
meteast

[Enoll]

I hate to strike at raw nerves here, but I have to admit.... the French could have come up with better ideas if they had gotten the 12 Olympics.

J


...must not make joke about surrendering.... :tong:

[TaylorMade]

Foxy? Taylor do you not half have the wrong girl. hahahaha.

Oh, MY GAWD... Kate, I am SOOOO sorry! That post was made pre-morning coffee...LOL

You know how us septics need a cuppa just to function.

*Taylor*

[darkeyes]

Foxy? Taylor do you not half have the wrong girl. hahahaha.
Keeps schtum...

[matterinhand]

God I'm glad other people think the same as me about this.
The moment I saw it, and more importantly saw that it had cost £400,000 to produce, I wondered why the hell they didn't do a "Blue Peter" art competition and give the winner more than the usual badge and certificate?
(For the benefit of the colonies, Blue Peter is an educational childrens programme.)

[darkeyes]

i appologise to the world for that logo. it makes me ashamed to be english. how that got picked i will never know, probably a load of government officials picked it after 1 or 2 drinks. all i can say is let me hide my head in the sand.
Makes me glad me Scottish... tee hee... betta nip an c if me mum as gud englishwoman has decided to hav the gall 2 show er face yet... :bigrin:

[TrimBeardHairyBod]

And here's the latest:

The 'animated' version of the logo shown on television has been found to trigger off epileptic seizures in people with that condition.

Things can't get any worse. Surely.

[kinky_matt]

I'm ashamed at that my artistic abilities stop at stickmen but I couldve done it better

[ukmale32]

I think this sucks. But that said, its a bit like the job of England Manager or PM of UK. Everyone thinks they could do it better!!

[TrimBeardHairyBod]

And what was wrong with the old logo - the figures 2 0 1 2 with the coloured, parallel lines through them representing the twists and turns of the river Thames? It was simple and straightforward but rather elegant, I thought.

[julie]

And here's the latest:

The 'animated' version of the logo shown on television has been found to trigger off epileptic seizures in people with that condition.

Things can't get any worse. Surely.

and heres the link to that story http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6724245.stm

...my jury is still out on whether i like the logo, though i'm rather saddened by such blanket negativity!

[TaylorMade]

and heres the link to that story http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6724245.stm

...my jury is still out on whether i like the logo, though i'm rather saddened by such blanket negativity!

I'm figuring the negativity in this way - - when compared to the logos of previous Olympiad. . .

http://www.girlstalksports.com/images/userimage/torino2006.gif

http://www.mapsofworld.com/olympic-trivia/images/olympic-emblem/athens2004.gif

http://perso.orange.fr/pingcollec/images/atlanta1996.gif

http://www.eok.ee/est/olympiamangud/1994_lillehammer_logo.gif

It comes away as a inferior design.

That's just my theory. You don't have to hate the 2012 logo, but...

*Taylor*

[Solomon]

in the words of the penguins of the movie Madagascar "well, this sucks"

[flexuality]

They're keeping that??

....amazing.....lol!! :tong: :rolleyes:

[julie]

...oh dear ): ....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6727029.stm

[creach]

Absolutely hideous!!!

And epileptic inducing!

Looks like vomit on a page YUCK YUCK YUCK!

We get shamed often i mean take a look at Eurovision...

[TaylorMade]

...oh dear ): ....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6727029.stm

Heh... not often I find myself in agreement with "Red Ken" but, he may have a point.

*Taylor*

[vittoria]

I hate to strike at raw nerves here, but I have to admit.... the French could have come up with better ideas if they had gotten the 12 Olympics.

J



AMEN brother... AMEN..


in my words... WTF were they thinking? were they having a "say it with Krylon" moment?
were they drunk?

no wait..heres a better one for ya..

the person responsible for this atrocity did this crap at the last minute after an all nighter binge drinking, smoking pot and collaborating with friends--got up late for work..dashed out the door, mussed up hair and all, flying into the office all disheveled and since no one else had a good idea, it stuck
and it

STINKS!!!

lord i despise PINK!!

[ForbiddenWindow]

wow thats sad, i'd happily make one for free! L4,000 wow, i mean what were they thinking?

I'd say have all the preschoolers design one and send in the best one
that way it would be cute to look at and everybody would be going like
awww......