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garinda 05-06-2007 10:24

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Originally Posted by cashman (Post 432247)
not difficult i know, but you completely lost me.:confused:

Children's arts programme from the seventies.

It was aimed primarily at deaf children, and was the first mainstream programme to have sign language. It was co-presented by Tony Hart.

The woman pictured always used to say 'we are sorry we cannot return your pictures, but for all those we show, we'll give a prize', before the camera panned to the art work in the 'Gallery'.

I thought it was rubbish at the time, and never wasted a stamp.:D

garinda 05-06-2007 10:26

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Vision On - Tony Hart & Pat Keysell - Programmes For Deaf viewers

Tealeaf 05-06-2007 10:31

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If someone was to make a big model of this logo and stick it say, on top of the Coppice....what would it be called? And would it be popular?

accymel 05-06-2007 10:39

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Originally Posted by Tealeaf (Post 432257)
If someone was to make a big model of this logo and stick it say, on top of the Coppice....what would it be called? And would it be popular?


A Panopticon & ......................errrr NO!:D:D:D:D :rofl38:

garinda 05-06-2007 10:45

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I'm lucky enough to own one of the artist's earliest works.:D

http://www.robotswillkill.com/graffiti/red_repo.jpg

Ianto.W. 05-06-2007 10:53

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Originally Posted by garinda (Post 432260)
I'm lucky enough to own one of the artist's earliest works.:D

http://www.robotswillkill.com/graffiti/red_repo.jpg

That's a early piece of neo-criptistte script surrounded by a cubists oblong, in short a masterpiece compared with the new Olympic Logo.:cool:

Gayle 05-06-2007 11:08

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Originally Posted by Tealeaf (Post 432257)
If someone was to make a big model of this logo and stick it say, on top of the Coppice....what would it be called? And would it be popular?

Even we wouldn't be interested in putting that pile of rubbish up there!:D

But if we had it would have been an eighth of the cost.

panther 05-06-2007 12:03

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and whats wrong with this one?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...x-London-2012-

WillowTheWhisp 05-06-2007 12:10

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That one was obviously too attractive.

MargaretR 05-06-2007 14:32

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Found this one on BBC site

garinda 05-06-2007 17:11

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Today I heard Sebastian Coe defending the logo on the radio.

He described it as 'street' and 'happening'.

Err...no, it isn't.

Maybe graffiti art was street and happening in '76, or at a push 1980, for the Olympics in Montreal, or Moscow respectively, but not now.

The design of this logo is equivalent to 'Dad dancing' at weddings.

WillowTheWhisp 05-06-2007 17:16

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Tell me it isn't true that it was inspired by a 'TISWAS' logo!!!!

Eric 05-06-2007 17:29

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Originally Posted by panther (Post 432275)

Nah ... it's too good, makes too much sense, and won't be controversial. If this was accepted all kinds of crazy things would start to happen. People would elect intelligent and honest politicians etc. ... sanity would break out in all the wrong places.

Actually, the logo looks a lot like a map of Canada with the Great Lakes in the wrong locations.

katex 05-06-2007 17:30

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Must admit Panther, did rather like that one which they used for the bid and wondered why was not carried into the actual logo. One that nobody could dislike I suppose, maybe that was the point .. too banal .. and have to think 5 years from now. Our 13-year olds will be 18 then and have a different perspective of design likings as technology advances and bombarded with more geometrical-type images.

Guess the younger ones in the main will be the buyers of all the souvenier off-shoot products.

Less 05-06-2007 17:39

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Originally Posted by katex (Post 432364)
One that nobody could dislike I suppose, maybe that was the point .. too banal .. and have to think 5 years from now. Our 13-year olds will be 18 then and have a different perspective of design likings as technology advances and bombarded with more geometrical-type images.

Guess the younger ones in the main will be the buyers of all the souvenier off-shoot products.

None of us are clever enough to second guess what will be 'in', and what will be 'out', by the year 2012.

The Olympics is supposed to be based on a tradition of fair and equal sport for all, so what is wrong in this case instead of trying to be 'trendy', why could we not have just had a logo that reflects the high principles of the games themselves?

Or are we just doing this for the money????;)


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