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WillowTheWhisp 06-06-2007 11:32
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Oh yes, click here for something completely different but here's where if you click on 'home' they apparently don't have one. This link also states that they have 4 offices whereas the previous one says they have 2 and yet the previous one was reached via the Olympic 'interactive animation' - see what I mean about confusing?

There's probably other bits in other places too but they don't seem to connect.

Gayle 06-06-2007 11:44
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Yet if you click on this link you get something different

Wolff Olins

WillowTheWhisp 06-06-2007 11:53
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That was the first link I put on Gayle, in post #99

WillowTheWhisp 06-06-2007 11:58
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Where do they get the silly idea that 'new-thinking consumers' (whatever they might be) want brands to look different? I want to be able to recognise things. I want my bank to look like a bank. (I use that as an illustration because they did the rebranding of lloyds tsb.) If I'm shopping and looking for breakfast cereal I want it to look like breakfast cereal. I do not want to be dazzled by new brand logo packaging all over the place every other week. I want to be able to recognise what I'm looking for, otherwise (and especially if I'm in a hurry as many of us are these days) I am likely to walk straight past it and buy something else which I do recognise.

Gayle 06-06-2007 13:17
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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp (Post 432566)
That was the first link I put on Gayle, in post #99

Ooops, sorry, hadn't see that.

Margaret Pilkington 06-06-2007 13:25
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Ooooh that Wolf Olins site made me feel decidedly nauseous.... a bit like i imagine a bad 'acid' trip would be...not that I know anything about bad acid trips you understand!

jambutty 06-06-2007 13:40
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Since I first saw the logo a couple of days ago I have been speechless. It’s an insult to the Olympic ideal.

If that is an example of the Olympic team’s management skills we can stand by for an even way over budget cost than is estimated now. But then it is easy spending someone else’s money. OURS!!!

Gayle 06-06-2007 20:26
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The only problem is that currently it is a waste of money - if they scrap it, it is a colossal waste of money.

MargaretR 06-06-2007 20:34
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Bad news - giving people epileptic fits
Good news - not paid for yet and wont be if Ken Livingstone gets his way

steeljack 06-06-2007 20:35
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Originally Posted by Gayle (Post 432683)
The only problem is that currently it is a waste of money - if they scrap it, it is a colossal waste of money.
and since when has wasting the publics money ever been a problem for either elected or appointed officials :confused::confused:, the only time you ever hear the words 'fiscal responsibility ' out of their mouths is when they are lecturing pensioners how to save money by turning the heat down and to wear an extra coat ..:rolleyes::rolleyes:

mallard 06-06-2007 21:28
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I think its a waist of money for what it is and i think they could have come up with something better than that,but thats up to them now.

steeljack 07-06-2007 04:35
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from one of the more esoteric websites I occasionally browse
READER: THE OLYMPIC LOGO SPELLS ZION!! - CAN YOU SEE ZION?? *PIC*

US Angel 07-06-2007 06:15
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Dont like it

Eric 07-06-2007 13:33
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I can't see "Zion." But it does seem to spell "Brainf**t".

MargaretR 20-05-2010 11:50
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The latest olympic hype is the mascots
Grotesque:eek:

That's more of our money down the drain

garinda 20-05-2010 11:57
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Originally Posted by MargaretR (Post 816208)
The latest olympic hype is the mascots
Grotesque:eek:

That's more of our money down the drain
Saw them on the news, and though they looked like two rotten teeth, that'd fallen out of some unhealthily diseased mouth.

At least they compliment the 2012 logo, in that both are atrociously bad designs.

garinda 20-05-2010 12:06
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The only other one eyed character I can think of was based on a winky.

This looks like another cock-up too.

garinda 20-05-2010 12:09
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'The criticism of the mascots won't be similar to the complaints about the logo. No, they'll be much, much worse.'

London unveils creepy-looking mascots for 2012 Olympics - Fourth-Place Medal - Olympics - Yahoo! Sports

Tealeaf 20-05-2010 12:13
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Britcliffe and Pritchard would look very good inside those suits.

MargaretR 20-05-2010 12:33
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First we had a logo that spelt Zion
Now we have mascots with the illuminati symbol - eye of Horus

Conspiracy theorists will have a field day denegrating them:D

jaysay 20-05-2010 14:51
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Originally Posted by MargaretR (Post 816214)
First we had a logo that spelt Zion
Now we have mascots with the illuminati symbol - eye of Horus

Conspiracy theorists will have a field day denegrating them:D
The fields yours Margaret :D

Margaret Pilkington 01-03-2011 13:21
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I know this is nothing to do with the olympic signage, but still on the Olympic theme....a newly built swimming pool cannot be used for the Olympic events because it is two inches too short...........what will the world think of us now........? Duh!

gynn 01-03-2011 13:51
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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington (Post 888320)
I know this is nothing to do with the olympic signage, but still on the Olympic theme....a newly built swimming pool cannot be used for the Olympic events because it is two inches too short...........what will the world think of us now........? Duh!
They will think we are stupid! Although it's not actually the pool in which the Olympic races will be held. It's in Portsmouth, and was going to be used for teams to train in for the Olympics. Someone forgot that you need space at each end for touch sensitive equipment to measure times.

They can still use it, but will have to use stop watches instead of electric sensors!

Less 01-03-2011 14:03
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Originally Posted by gynn (Post 888328)
They can still use it, but will have to use stop watches instead of electric sensors!
Surely, some type of overhead scanning device could be used, in fact off the top of my head I can think of a variety of 'off the shelf', pieces of kit that wouldn't take up any room in the pool itself, for less than the cost of the logo, I'm willing to act as 'cock up consultant', and am willing to work within the H&S boundaries that will ensure the minimum of deaths and maimings from my third world choice of machinery.

gynn 01-03-2011 14:09
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Originally Posted by Less (Post 888329)
some type of overhead scanning device could be used,
You mean like a bar code reader? The swimmers would have to wear swimming caps with black and white bars on them. A bit inconvenient, maybe, and they would look ridiculous, but it might just do the trick!

:alright:

Less 01-03-2011 14:21
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Originally Posted by gynn (Post 888330)
You mean like a bar code reader? The swimmers would have to wear swimming caps with black and white bars on them. A bit inconvenient, maybe, and they would look ridiculous, but it might just do the trick!

:alright:
No, nothing so sophisticated, all my designs involve 240v and some waterproof plasters, but please don't press me for the details, or the whole idea may be stolen by a foreign manufacturer.

Margaret Pilkington 01-03-2011 14:54
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Originally Posted by gynn (Post 888328)
They will think we are stupid! Although it's not actually the pool in which the Olympic races will be held. It's in Portsmouth, and was going to be used for teams to train in for the Olympics. Someone forgot that you need space at each end for touch sensitive equipment to measure times.

They can still use it, but will have to use stop watches instead of electric sensors!
Yes, but Portsmouth reckon it will lose revenue as a result of the mistake and everyone seems to be blaming everyone else for the booboo.

gynn 01-03-2011 16:05
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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington (Post 888346)
everyone seems to be blaming everyone else for the booboo.
You mean, 13 years of La.....? Perhaps not!

Margaret Pilkington 01-03-2011 17:01
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Yes....a bit like that :)

jaysay 01-03-2011 17:37
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Originally Posted by gynn (Post 888354)
You mean, 13 years of La.....? Perhaps not!
Well I have kept telling ya:D


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