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The new Olympic Logo has now been revealed, do you like it or loathe it?

London unveils logo of 2012 Games

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That's great, and accounts for at least a couple of the billions of pounds it's costing us.:D

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Anyone want to buy any NYC 2012 keyrings and money clips?:D

Olympic Bid Pins, NYC, Vancouver, Beijing

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At least they have made it easy to copy for the merchandise forgers :)

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like it?- not a lot, its GROSS.;)

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whts it meant to be?

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The figures 2 0 1 2

Cost £400,000 to design, as well. Great value for money! ;)

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it looks like a kids done it, and that cost 400.000, i cud have done one....sorry no my 6 year old could have done one for less:D

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I dont know about you but I think it's fantastic............ly crap. Yet another waste of public money which could go towards worthwhile things such as the NHS etc. I was going to say it looks like it's been designed by a 3 year old, but that would be an insult to 3 year olds the world over.:)

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that is crap what a waste of money

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*LMAO*

i thought it was some sorta lion or something

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Too angular = bad Feng Shui

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Might be a secret message to the men on Mars. :p Cant believe its that bad though and that they paid that much money for it. :eek:

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What you don't understand is the amount of employment it has already provided. A design agency has been employed, probably four or five account handlers plus additional staff, consultation has been held, meetings with key people and one poor young trainee to do all the photocopying. Isn't this what they said would happen - the Olympics would create jobs!





And now here's my real answer - it's crap, looks like crap and is a waste of money! :D It's providing work, yes, but for a London company - none of this benefitting the rest of the country.

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Sorry, forgot to mention - employment for a web designer who hasn't got the first idea about a practical website and who has concentrated too much on being 'designery' and not enough on developing content.

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I think it's super, loverly, GREAT!

Here's a logo we could have had!:rolleyes:


http://comparestoreprices.co.uk/imag...ke-dog-poo.jpg

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Less might not want one.

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Four hundred thousand ponds????

What a friggin' waste of money.

They should have had a competition for school children to design the logo. It wouldn't have cost anything, and would have been a better design.

To me it looks loke the maple eaf, on a Canadian flag.

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I don't often use text type messages but in this case LOL! :)

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Perhaps Peter Britcliffe can find out which design agency was used, so they can also do our new council logo.:D

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I've just fallen off the chair laughing and hurt my back again - I hold you responsible Garinda. :D

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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi..._age_1y10m.jpg

That's very good, and better than the offical one. Which account do you want the £400,000 paid in to?:D

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That would of been the best idea.

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I think it looks quite rude....take a closer look.

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Totally agree, Gayle. A Manchester/North West agency could have done it for one hundredth of the cost and made a much better job of it too.

In fact, it's an almighty cock up and now the great and the good are trying to justify it with meaningless platitudes.

"This is the vision at the very heart of our brand. It will define the venues we build..." Seb Coe, organising committe chairman

"When people see the new brand, we want them to be inspired to make a positive change in their life." - Tony Blair

"This is an iconic brand which sums up what London is all about -an inclusive, welcoming and diverse Games that involves the whole country." - Tessa Jowell, Olympics Minister

"The new Olympics brand draws on what London has become - the world's most forward-looking and international city." - Ken Livingstone

A collection of third-rate marketing cliches that would shame the most wet-behind-the-ears junior account executive. In other words, a load of bull...and there's more of it to come! :mad:

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It's like when you used to be given months to do a project at school, forgot all about it, and knocked it up the night before. The artist must have laughed himself senseless on his way home thinking "how the hell did I get away with that?" :)

What makes it funier is that when it was first shown to the Olympic lot somebody must've gone "Oh, that's brilliant, let's use that!" :D

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But hey, if you were that designer wouldn't you just charge the top whack. If everyone else is ripping of the olympic committee you wouldn't want to miss out would you?

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Gulp.. well, I sorta' like it. Growing on me and does come in lots of colours.:rolleyes:

Bit solid maybe for reproduction on t-shirts,trinkets, etc., however, extremely striking, unforgettable and obviously controversial and futuristic. Think they could have given London a capital 'L' though .. don't approve of that.

Sorry comrades, give this the thumbs up .. :thumbsup:

Would love myself to see the breakdown of the cost, but would have been the same if we had all liked it I suppose .. would you have questioned it then??

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Definitely. £400,000 is a rip-off, whatever the quality of the finished product.

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Let's face it, the Olympic committee is there for the taking. They even "forgot" to allow for the 17.5% VAT rate on construction work. No wonder the costs are spiralling out of control.

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They should have got Damian Hirst to do a diamond encrusted logo.:D

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/grap...bahirst101.jpg

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I don't know ... it looks kind of, like, symbolic of .... of what it means, to be ... like a metaphor for all that sport means ... in a sort of Londonish way. Or it harkens to past images, of what it might mean for the future, if there is one. Yes, I think that clears it up.

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How much did they say that was worth Garinda ?.. forgotten.

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I also agree it's pretty lame (or should I say "nice":rolleyes:). However, if the public has too much of an outcry it'll give em an excuse to scrap it and spend 500,000 for a "really really good design"!:p

Brian

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looks a bit doggy to me ....sorry bad spelling dodgy

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the origin of the logo..

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/image...ham_coe416.jpg

nad that skull is worth i think 50m

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It's not terrible, but I a 5 mins job at the most.

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Well, I've just redesigned the logo:

http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/4...donlogopm0.jpg

It took 7.58 minutes.

YouTube vid coming up...

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Just done a quick one for the new Accrington and District Borough Council ;)

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YouTube - London 2012 Logo in 7.58 minutes

London 2012 Logo in under 8 minutes.

That's £952.38 per minute. I really need to go into logo design... :p

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For sale at 50 million pounds, and the most expensive art work ever created.

Peanuts for the Olympic Committee though.:D

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BBC NEWS | In Pictures | Your alternative Olympic logos

Looking at the bbc website being nosy theres some different ones people have sent in.

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Reminds me of one of the Idiot tests that our HR dept. now do at job interviews , just before they ask if you love your Mother or if you still wet the bed . Supposed to weed out the psychos :confused::confused:

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A complete & utter waste of money.Just like the games will turn out to be.:mad:

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That'll be for the gay (pink), Dutch Protestant (orange), green (ecological), and Tory (blue) games.

See, value for money after all.:D

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a 3 year old could do better

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Absolute and utter trash......the people responsible should be ashamed of this effort that cost us, the tax payer so much of our hard earned cash....which could have gone to better causes.

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I think its horrible gee nursery kids could do better for a lot less!!

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not difficult i know, but you completely lost me.:confused:

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Can anyone spot the similarity between this logo and that of the Waffen SS ?

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Lost me to cashy was bored stiff with this thread till this one came up, I wonder if this mon's on't Olympic Logo Design Committee.:confused:

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I know what you mean Uncle Mick.

Vision On - kids art programme with Tony Hart

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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

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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?

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

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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

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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:

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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.

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

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Found this one on BBC site

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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They could have used the Tories old torch logo, now they are no longer carrying it, and are no longer conservative.:D

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/...ages/torch.jpg

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I think the epileptic seizures took place when it was being designed.

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Here's the creator's website where you can play with the logo! WOW! ;)

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Just like those jigsaws for under 5s

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Ok i just clicked on that link you put up willow - no wonder there should be a warning on that for people who are photo sensitive. Im not photo sensitive but i got the warnings for disco's etc not to look into the lights and i ended up shutting the site down.

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Factually incorrect. The issue with the VAT was between 2 different Government departments, the Treasury and the DCMS. In theory its all Government money so the charging (or not) of VAT is purely a paper exercise, but like everything else in this Country, the press and public are very quick to knock down whatever they can.

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Factually incorrect. It's actually all OUR money.

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So the Olympics won't benefit the rest of the UK?
Is the football going to be played at Old Trafford? (answer - yes)
Are athletes and spectators all going to stay in London?(answer - no. They will stay in various parts of the UK, athletes will need facilities to train on and get used to English weather', spectators and tourists will not all be able to stay in London. I am sure many will enter the country through Manchester or Liverpool and stay in the North West and travel down to see the games)
Will all the jobs go to people in London? (answer - no - A North West firm has won the tender to supply all the toilet roll for the Olympics, they will need extra staff to meet the demand.)
Is the logo any good?(answer - in my opinion its not that good, bbc website has some very good alternatives sent in by members of the public which I think are better)

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Ok, yes. But at the point I am referring to it is in the Governments hands. The point was more aimed at the fact it is not the mistake of Seb Coe and his bid team, but the Government.

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The creation of the brand is to generate cash! we are going to see it plastered on t-shirts, keyrings, and anything you can think of, and without the cash being generated through the sponsorship there is no show!

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The bid organisers put the budget together. They were the ones who put in an initial estimate of £2.38 billion for the construction of Olympic facilities, while rashly assuming that there would be no VAT to pay on it. If they had done their homework more carefully, they would have realised that EU laws make VAT payment on projects of this nature mandatory. No wonder that a trendy design outfit have just relieved them of £400,000 for a dodgy logo!

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[QUOTE=the funk;432455]So the Olympics won't benefit the rest of the UK?



Don't forget the Weymouth and Portland sailing events.

When I did a catering exhibition in Bournemouth couple of months ago, the hotel owners were already predicting full occupancy and buying from UK companies, which will have a huge knock on effect to other industries. e.g. crockery, cutlery, food , linen/textile , furniture, entertainment, you name it, it was there.

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And which part of this quango do you represent? I am all for the games, and the possibility that they may help create an extra boost to our economy, however there is no way I could come on as a new member just to defend such an obvious mis-use of funds as this logo.

The original principle of the games is for nation to compete against nation (for the honour of competing), not to see who is daft enough to be ripped off by buying a really naff baseball cap with a stupid logo on it.
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why has this been done now?, we have four years to go, chavs might not be still around then! OMG just realised i will be nearly 40 then:o!!!!(well 39)
and my kid will be 18 and 10...NOOOOOOOooooooo

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That's one point I will agree with you on. All of them beat the official logo hands down and one in particular, which quite cleverly combines the '2012' into the 'Lon' lettering in London is, in my opinion, outstanding.

All of which begs the question, why didn't the Olympics committee simply organise a competition for a new logo? They would have saved a lot of money and ended up with a much better logo in the long run. But, of course, that would show that ordinary people have just as much, if not more, ability than the so-called 'experts' and that would never do, would it? :rolleyes:

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the Olympics these days are nothing more than just another oppertunity for money grubbing sponsors (Coke, Pepsi, McDonalds etc) and for sleazoid politicians to boost their own egos .
IMO the summer games should have a permament site in Greece and winter games in Innsbruck or Sarejavo(sp?) just get rid of the money and get back to the Olympic ideal of sport , as for the theme music stick to either "Ode to Joy" or the "Chariots of Fire" thing , .........and while I'm on a rant get rid of the syncronized swimming/diving, ballroom dancing and snow boarding/moguling rubbish, anything judged on 'artistic merit " has no business being described as a sport ....first/fastest over the line wins.

;););)

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The ad video for the olympics have come under fire for failing photo sensitivity test, 12 people at least have suffered seizures as a direct result of it, others suffered migraines & other effects of photo sensitivity.

Personally i dont know why its been allowed to represent the olympics, its horrible something right out of a drug induced trip worse than something out of the 60's hippy power jobbers. What a waste!

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It's beginning to look like public opinion is so much against this excuse for a logo that it might end up being scrapped.

Has anyone had a serious look at the designers own website? Whoever created that wants locking up! It is impossible to negotiate your way round it. The Home Page is not linked to all pages and in some cases where it is linked the link doesn't work! I could go on but I think I may not have even managed to find all the pages yet - and we thought HyndburnLite was bad. :rolleyes:

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The short term injection of a bit of cash into other regions might be fine but the whole thing is basically a huge marketing exercise for London. Plus, you have to factor in the amount of money that these regions will lose - government and lottery funding has been slashed throughout the country to pay for it. Extra people might get taken on short term for low wages in some manufacturing roles (mostly jobs that are being taken by immigrants), so people from eastern european countries will flock to these jobs and then be dumped back onto the job market straight afterwards. These are not strategic benefits.

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So if Seb Coe had have been running this as a business, with his own money he would still have been trading, would he?:confused:

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Link please ?

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Any news on a new logo. I just wonder what i have paid tax for - utter tripe

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