[stealthcow]

i didnt make that blow job animation

[sean_r]

I agree with this guy

[kiteflyer]

lord it sucks.

[steveb]

Let's assume that our petition doesn't get the logo revoked. That would mean that this particular design will always be associated with the London Olympics because other rip-offs will be instantly recognizable as just that - rip-offs. So there probably won't be many of them and we won't need to see this in other contexts ever again.

I can live with that.

When the Munich games were held in 1972, the typography, logos, iconography and ideagraphs revolutionized graphic communication all over the world very much for the better. Thirty-five years later, we can find our way around foreign airports and stations with ease thanks to the graphic standards set in Munich.

I doubt if London's revolutionary design will live past September 2012.

[stealthcow]

well, they didnt listen to 1 million people about iraq and that cost billions of pounds, doubt theyre going to listen to thousands over a measly 400k

[funkyprem]

no one picked up on this yet?

BBC NEWS | England | London | Epilepsy fears over 2012 footage

First thing i said to someone at work after seeing this was exactly this.

[d*d]

Originally Posted by sean_r

I agree with this guy

Sounds like he got hold of the WK rationale that was given to the olympic commitee.

[Andy]

Originally Posted by steveb

Aren't they [epileptics] in the Paralytic Olympics?

We know time travel will be impossible for all eternity because otherwise time travel tourists from the future would be with us all the time and we'd have always known about them. Unless they're in a parallel universe, in which case they probably can't see us either. QED!

they probably are all around us, in the loony bins LOLOLOLOLOLOL!!LOL!!!1

[RaelRode]

Originally Posted by EmmaPhlema

WTF?!
Whoever made that logo should be kicked in the head. It's the biggest pile of shite I've ever seen. It burns me up that someone handed a check over for £400,000. If I was the agency that did that, I'd cash the check and get the fck out of dodge!

Its funny no-one else had the bollocks to say it as bluntly as you. Ace. :p The John Titor stuff is wierd, but it's also a load of bollocks. But yes the logo is crap but now theres more things adding to it making it more and more complex.

[d*d]

Originally Posted by steveb

We know time travel will be impossible for all eternity because otherwise time travel tourists from the future would be with us all the time and we'd have always known about them. Unless they're in a parallel universe, in which case they probably can't see us either. QED!

or, it could be the case that you would only be able to travel back as far as the when your time machine was invented

[RaelRode]

Originally Posted by d*d

or, it could be the case that you would only be able to travel back as far as the when your time machine was invented

Yea but the John Titor conspiracy is crap, since his "Time machine" was made in 2034 but he came back all the way to 1975. So, meh.

[Dusteh]

You can only go forward, not backwards - fact.

[steveb]

Good point. And as you go north from Euston towards the Scottish border, it looks like you're going further and further back in time.

[R1gM]

As a forienger I am quite disgusted at your "london" southern cunt attitude....!!!

[Dusteh]

Hes from London.

[SamyChelly]

they dont grow up

my sister can make it

[fetusface]

Hate it.

Here is another example of a pitch and design that isn't working. You cant just apply a nu-rave style treatment to a logo because its 'what the cool kids' are designing these days. This totally doesnt suit the target audience or the message the Olympics are about.

Imagine if you applied pop design from the mid 90s to something like the food network , you'd have a abstract angled, techy comp with bitmap text. does that fit?

[arktos]

OK, here goes an opinion from Mexico. When I first saw it I thought it was awful, then I kind of like it a bit when I saw its aplications to motions and posters, but then I realized that I could appreciate some features because I'm a designer, and yet is hard to get it. I'm sure is bold, ahead of time, etc. But what about the rest of the world who is not a designer, do they get it? even young people?

I've always said that the best graphic design in the world come from two places: the superb, elegant and sophisticated Japanese design. And the contemporary, revolutionary and tasteful design from england.

I admire the work of studios like Why not?, Stylorougue, Designers republic, etc. But in my personal opinion I would've liked to see Attik working on this project. I really expected more from the graphics of this olympics.

[sean_r]

Agree with you arktos (welcome by the way, nice first post). British design historicly has a reputation for leading the world, I think this could be one of these examples. We just can't see it yet.

I see you're from Mexico. Now, Mexico 1968 Olympics' branding rocked, it's stuff of ledgend! But in it's day (I read anyway, I wasn't alive then) that it was badly recieved by it's public. That branding was ahead of it's time, and was the bollocks. It was original, it didn't use a mexican cliche, but went for bold typography, and bold graphics which even today beats seven lumps of shit out of recent Olympic brandings (Munich Olympics, Otl Aicher, 1972 on par in my opinion).

I really believe that we've not seen all that this 2012 brand has to offer. 5 years is a long time, who knows where we're going to be seeing this mark, and what it's going to be doing. I'm quite exited about this brand, I don't know what the fuck to expect from it. Which is quite refreshing, to be honest!

I just hope we look back in fondness to the 2012 branding as we do the 1968.

[H.Yates]

Oh come on. It's trash crap. And you know it.

Once again a major London project is being run by some half-witted Daily Mail committee (cue: the Dome).

Don't embarrass yourself.