OT 2012 Olympic Logo...

Funny you should say that Tom, I've just heard on the news that they have had to remove an animation from the web site as it may trigger an epileptic fit. The genereal response has been negative, to put it mildly.

Regards Kevin

Never mind epileptic fits, what about the fits caused by the horrendous tastlessness of the logo. I reckon we need a simple image of a London icon like Tower Bridge with a pole vaulter jumping over it.

AWEM

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Where can I find the logo?

Do you REALLY want to :)

think the white is supposed to be part of the logo, but then the press release has that as yellow and lots of different main colours doubt someone has taken a big fat pay check for that crap :(

In article , Andrew Mawson writes

What about a chap tipping sacks of (our) £50 notes into a furnace.

David

£400k was the figure I heard on the news this morning.

David

That's good. Cut the logo out of sheet metal and beat the designer with it until he repents! :-)

Glad I won't have to see it everywhere!

Cheers Trevor Jones

£400,000 --

Chris Edwards (in deepest Dorset) "....there *must* be an easier way!"

Thee BBC news site has already got a lot of alternative logos on display:

Personally, I prefer the first logo on the second page.

G.

Chris

If the official logo is worth £400,000 the the one that uses 2012 t

spell out Lon in London must be worth £4 million. I dont know wh designed it but very good graphic design, give him the money. If the had held a competition for a logo the official one would not have bee considered. MB

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I'm glad you warned me.

Now I need to find out how to forget what I just saw :-(

There have been some pretty bad Olympic logos over the years. That one is bloody horrible! I will have to find out what my relatives in darkest Suffolk think of it!

Steve R. In western Canada.

Your welcome

What is even more annoying is that SOMEONE thinks that is worth the best part of half a million pounds! No wonder the Olympics cost so much to put on :( That money could have been put to much better use, but now they are trying to justify it by suggesting that organising a contest to produce it would have cost MORE. I know people complain about 'open source', but sharing and cooperation should be the norm these days - not ripping the customer off for as much as you think you can con out of them :(

Typical Wolf Olins graphic design ripoff.. In the early 1990's BP paid him £250K to come up with a new logo, which turned out to be the same one they had in the 60's. I think the ony change was a sighty different serif on the letters.

peter

In article , Peter Neill writes

IIRC, the shape of the shield was also very slightly different.

David

Chris Edwards suggested a fee of .........

I wonder if I might have a try ..........

Mike

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My vote is on you :-)

Do not forget how much will be spent trying to convince you that is was worth it.

Why the 5 rings in a W pattern, London 2008 and a back ground of something pleasant isn't enough escapes me. It is supposed to be about the athletes isn't it?

The first one is excellent.

Wes