Olympic Logo

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.
 
Wynonie Harris said:
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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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.
 
Gayle said:
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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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)
 
Less said:
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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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!
 
the funk said:
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 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!
 
the funk said:
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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the funk said:
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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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
 
the funk said:
bbc website has some very good alternatives sent in by members of the public which I think are better
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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:
 
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!
 
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:
 
the funk said:
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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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.
 
the funk said:
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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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:
 
WillowTheWhisp said:
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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Link please ?
 
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