What do you think of the 2012 Olympics logo?

[Guest olla666]

Shit, IMO. There is no way that looks "modern", and if they were going for that, they should done something sleek and structured.

[stokeriño]

The best description I've read has been "It looks like a transfer for sticking on a BMX bike in the 1980s. A free one from a cereal packet."

Also, they've pulled the animated version because it's got complaints from people suffering epileptic attacks. There's a machine which is used as a matter of course by broadcasting companies etc. that will check a piece of footage for potential epileptic harm, but apparently their £400,000 bill couldn't be stretched that far.

Edited June 6, 2007 by stokeriño

[Legend_Killer33]

This should go in the Sports Bar, really. But I think it looks like shit. plain and simple

[alldaws1]

It has a very Japanese feel to it :\

[stokeriño]

Nah, it's too lame for the Japanese. Take their World Cup 2002 logo as evidence:

And you think the UK one looks shockingly outdated now...think what it'll look like when we actually get to 2012.

[Momo]

The 0 resembles the shape of Australia.

Clearly this England's way of conceding to our awesomeness.

Edited June 6, 2007 by The Laughing Man

[Marsh]

It looks awful.

At first I was looking at it hard, expecting to be missing something obvious. But there doesn't seem to be any clever reasoning behind the shapes (such as the outline of the British Isles), it just looks like a mess. I like the comment about the BMX stickers, stok. Good find.

[Ignition]

That looks shit.

End post.

[AJ]

As a design-minded type person I should be more bothered about this but I'm really not. It's not a good logo, but no-one will care about the logo once the games get underway. On the other hand, the fact that 400 grand was spent on it is a bit rediculous. I would've made them one for half that >_>

Also, I understand the 2012 numbers, but what's with the dot in the middle? I can only assume it's so that there's 5 shapes, as there are 5 olympic rings, 5 continents, etc.

[(həd)]

If you look at it right, the dot in the middle is just the top of the '2'. With that said, it looks really really shit.

Oh and yeah, 2012 - the end of the world. Think about it.

Edited June 6, 2007 by Evil Empire

[Guest olla666]

I think the dot is part of the 2.

[Ignition]

Defiantely. When you think of the amount they spent. Give me like £100 and I would of done one.

[sirdavinator]

The pic doesn't show now, but I saw it in the paper anyway. Shit it is.

EDIT: It showed right after I typed this up. Meh.

Edited June 6, 2007 by sirdavinator

[Vilge Duin]

http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=105194

^ Found that amusing. People these days...

It does look like a decal of some kind. I didn't notice it was 2012 until someone pointed it out. It looks like some nonsensical blotches. Rather horrid it is.

[Momo]

Could it be a combination of the main commonwealth countries. As I said earlier, the 0 looks like Australia, and the 2012 look kind of like New Zealand and the last 2 might be England. :ohwell:

I really doubt it, but yeah, I can't see any other reason why they'd make it look so unattractive.

[Ruckus]

I'm guessing they spent most of the time and money and hookers and drugs, then made this logo at last minute.

[YI]

Small Blue said that on the radio he heard someone say it looks like "Lisa Simpson sucking a guy off"....I agree with that statement.

[alldaws1]

Could it be a combination of the main commonwealth countries. As I said earlier, the 0 looks like Australia, and the 2012 look kind of like New Zealand and the last 2 might be England. :ohwell:

I really doubt it, but yeah, I can't see any other reason why they'd make it look so unattractive.

You could be right, the last 2 does look like a simplified Britain.

[(həd)]

I tried... I guess. AD where are you?

[stokeriño]

The BBC's got a selection of alternative logos readers have sent in, the first batch being here and the second lot here. Yes, some of them are made in MS Paint.

I kind of like this one, even if it is somewhat bland (take out the tag line though, obviously).