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Shurely 'better blow job'?

Now that Gareth has kindly pointed that out, I'll see nothing else! :D Looks like something from a puzzle book - "name the odd shape out" - and the all-shaking, all-strobing colour changes might prove a bit much for those of a delicate nature.
 
Given a few minutes with photoshop my kids could have done a better job. It's a blooming eye sore.
 
Originally posted by krizon@Jun 4 2007, 11:43 PM
Now that Gareth has kindly pointed that out, I'll see nothing else! :D
:laughing:

Yes I'm afraid Gareth has just ruined the Olympics for me too as I will see nothing else for the next 5 years
 
Very good IS.

Apparently the Olympic Commitee's own animated version has been pulled from their website after causing 8 people to have Epileptic seizures.

Hills go 10/1 that the logo will be replaced by the end of the year. [Source: The Times]
 
Pee - oh, now you've got Matilda, it's cute baby stuff. :D I thought you'd spelled PIZZ rather cleverly there! God, there's going to be some legpulls with this one - wottashambles.
 
:clap: :clap:

On Virgin's homepage there's someone called P. Michell who's also suggesting that it looks like the Simpsons engaged in 'some comical sexual activity'. I eagerly await the next pornographic instalment/s of 'London - the Sex Olympics' in due course!

Wouldn't it have been a better idea to have thrown open the design to all of the UK's Art students in a competition to find the most original, yet still recognisably representative, without inducing migraines, epileptic fits, or bouts of nausea - and have rewarded the winner with payment of their fees? One helluva lot cheaper, would probably kickstart the student's career, and would have been achieved in the spirit of competition (which is what the Olympics is supposed to be about), rather than a purely commercial business. But no, wait! This is about London, so perhaps the logo sums up what modern life there is all about - earning very big bucks for flashy and meaningless tosh.
 
The design agency Wolff Olins are in the Sunday papers defening the logo design. Brian Boylan the chairman has come out with this cracker:

"We have created something original in a world where it is increasingly difficult to make something different."

I am tempted to email that quote back to Wolff Olins with a copy of Griffin's post above attached.
 

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