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Maybe some of you logo branding gurus can enlighten me but to me it looks like the biggest piece of crap I've ever seen.
Of all the things you could do with the London skyline, athletics, olympic rings, this is what they come up with...
http://www.london2012.com/img/logo/s...lue-yellow.png
What do you think, worth £500k?!
Bigger pictures >> http://www.london2012.com/
It looks like an island battlefield from Field Commander.
Looks like a tangram that will form a pile of **** no matter how you place the pieces.
logo, pretty bad.
website (colours particularly), awful.
excellent.
Im no design expert,
But I could definitely make a great game of tetris out of it ;-)
Oh my lord. I went to the site... and it's permanently burned into my retinas. I can see it when I blink.
Do we have to arrange them first into something meaningful??
maybe it's a flash game??
Glad its not just me, bad aint it?
Maybe they're cleverer than we think, if you turn it to the side and squint a little it sort of looks like someone..or something running!
http://img512.imageshack.us/img512/9...titled1px4.gif
Can you imagine the response they'd get if they created a competition to design the logo. They'd have saved £500k and dare say ended up with a much better design.
What a waste.
I thought I saw L O N D and thought it meant something
Perhaps it'll be like the Transformers???
I love this one:
http://www.llrsport.co.uk/images/Lon...ics%20logo.JPG
is it for the 2012 Mardi Gras :P
Whoever is responsible for that abomination should be banned from using MS Paint ever again.Quote:
Originally Posted by SpockBert
it looks a little like a Picasso swastika.
http://www.london2012.com/img/logo/s...ink-yellow.pnghttp://board.flashkit.com/board/imag.../2007/06/1.pnghttp://www.london2012.com/img/logo/s...nge-yellow.pnghttp://www.london2012.com/img/logo/s...een-yellow.pngQuote:
The four standard colours of the London 2012 emblem are shown below.
Dude - this is a joke, no?
oh and it appears we're not the only ones to think this.Quote:
Originally Posted by bbc
Oh, it says 2012.
Classic.Quote:
Originally Posted by BBC
Oh dear...
With Ken Livingstone and Sabastian Coe in charge.
It wasn't worth spending more that 2 bob on the logo.
Any 6 year old could of done a better job..
At least a 6 year old would have more imagination.
I really am not confident about 2012.
Ken, the man who staged a massive firework display and told people
to stay away and watch it on TV.
Holy mother of jaggedness! Is it being electrocuted or something?!
If not then whoever regurgitated it should be...
Quote:
Originally Posted by tidenburg
http://www2.b3ta.com/host/creative/4...091/london.jpg
god bless b3ta
looks like someone in 8th grade trying to be a cool graffiti artist.
Swampy - Classic! Projectile Hurl...love it.
fantastic!
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/image...stayte_416.jpg
from the bbc
Sign the petition guys!
http://www.gopetition.co.uk/petition...2012-logo.html
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Signed #6425
Looks like a very angry character from Dragon Ball Z bumping uglies with a rabbit!
Looks like Zack Morris designed it.
It won't translate to garments well at all. Too many stitches to make embroidery affordable and too ink heavy to make screen printing legible.
on the site there is a create your own design.
It's not for the logo though. It's downloading a template of some random geometric shape(s), using that as a basis for a design, and uploading it to the site. Almost like a battle image to be honest. Look at some of the samples to get the gist.Quote:
Originally Posted by WannaBe_80z
Not a huge fan of the logo, but interested to see what the real plan is from an overall marketing strategy. Seems like they always like to come up with some 'forward thinking' (or so they claim), kooky designs for these things. IIRC the logo and theme for the Atlanta, or maybe it was Seoul, games was somewhat off the wall at the time as well. Not saying this is a good design by any means though.
Previous logos have at times been "kooky", but not out and out ugly as this one is without doubt.Quote:
Originally Posted by clicky2
http://www.aldaver.com/Images/Os/logo2008.jpg
http://www.aldaver.com/Images/Os/logo2004.jpg
http://www.aldaver.com/Images/Os/logo2000.jpg
http://www.aldaver.com/Images/Os/logo19962.gif
http://www.aldaver.com/Images/Os/lg1992sm.gif
http://www.aldaver.com/Images/Os/lg1988sm.gif
I was going to try and edit my last post with the same images (and recall my comments) but couldn't do it in time.
I guess what separates those others is that the text and olympic rings are separated from the logo, identifier, bug or whatever you want to call it.
hip designs and neon colors! the 80's are back!
I read a comment where one of the athletes (backing the organisers of course) described it as "like graffiti". If they wanted something "edgy" and graffiti-like then why not get one of the high profile graf artists to contribute, rather than a corporate design agency made up of 40+ year olds "trying" to be edgy??
The idea wasn't necessarily bad, however the execution is atrocious!
When the 2002 Olympics were first announced in Salt Lake City they designed a pretty ugly (although not as hideous as the London logo).
http://home.comcast.net/~jeffchrz/Ol...slcbidlogo.gif
They ended up getting a lot of complaints about it and ended up changing it to:
http://content.answers.com/main/cont...mpics_logo.png
which in my opinion is tons better. I wonder if this logo/color scheme/website design will stick.
Quote:
Originally Posted by BBC radio 1
"It looks like Lisa Simpson doing something naughty." If they dont change it, that's all I'll be able to see in that logo from now on...
I really like the idea of having something a bit different but this is just an embarrassment. There's plenty of people on this site that could do a better job.
I wonder what the odds are on them changing it? Might have a bet on it..
If they would have held a competition to design the logo i'm sure that they would have gotten some pretty cool entries. There is so much talent out there but it seems that when someone with a lot of power thinks that they are better than everyone else it ends up sucking pretty bad.
One of my favourites that somebody submitted to the BBC:
"Dear BBC, I knocked up this running figure in 10 minutes in my lunch hour. Please may I have my £400,000."
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/image..._walker220.jpg
I'm calling fake. The logo and site couldn't be that bad in real life.
you're in denial.Quote:
Originally Posted by FlashLackey