2012 Olympics Logo unveiled!

as the mother of a gymnast daughter, it gives a female something to aspire to.

 

HUH? I thought the Olympics were every 4 years?

 

every two now. they alternate the winter and summer olympics to maximize profits.

 

the logo is bloody awful! we'll look back on it in history with the same distaste for dodgy colourful 70s tiling under bridges/subways

 

Oh yeah, of course

Totally didn't think then!

 

There's one thing to be sure about. Talent isn't a requirement for becoming a successful commercial graphic designer, either in the UK or Canada. Bloody shameful.

 

most modern design work is shit

 

I was just reading through some of the comments on the BBC website regarding the logo. I haven't read a single positive comment about it yet. There are 15 comments to a page and 113 pages of comments left since today!

 

It will grow on us all - maybe like a rash - but it will grow on us.

 

I was hoping that, if enough people disliked the logo, it would encourage Seb Coe to chane it.

 

Here's one I made in the wake of the 7/7 bombings...

 

Not going to happen -
You would have thought they market tested it before they ''put it out there'' .
If they did they must have had class A idiots onboard - imho it has the seeds of a decent idea it is just badly executed.

To be fair to it - mmmmm ok sorry I can't be.

I just think it will grow on us all after a while - it has too I suppose.

 

It's so very disappointing

 

Fine by me.

 

What WAS wrong with


Clean - fairly elegant and to the point.

 

I hope that is not want we all say AFTER the olympics -

 

Or something that actually represents London/GB?

Apparently, they couldn't use the colourful 5 rings symbol because it's copyrighted, or something like that.

 

Fair enough - remove that part of it - simple.
What represents London/GB ?.

 

I dunno... red white and blue, the Gerkin, London Eye etc etc

 

Like this...?



One of the entries to a competition to design a logo:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/photo_galleries/3242020.stm