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#21 Matt Marshall

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Posted 04 June 2007 - 08:25 PM

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I was actually thinking about mentioning the fact that children will love it, but I didn't think it was supposed to be targeted at children. Since I now know it was, the designer actually did do the proper thing. Children are attracted to bright, contrasting colors that make any adults' head hurt with agony and want to scratch out their eyes.......

In all seriousness though, children should find the colors and "highlighter" background to be colorful and animated. The designer hit the mark -- but it's not really all that difficult to please children. The difficulty is to please children and please the adult crowd at the same time. Personally, I don't think a logo is what should be getting children excited, it should be the emotions surrounding the event(s). That of pride, competition, true strength, and unity. If properly conveyed through the adults around the children, it would induce similar effects to the children. However, a brightly colored blinding logo is definitely easier.

Worth £400,000 for a brand? Remembering the Conservative tree logo was £40,000 I wouldn't expect that to have been any more! I don't see why we need to embarrass ourselves and add to the rise in taxes for Londoners! It's not British, it's not traditional, I could have done better.

Why even bother changing it from the following!

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Posted 04 June 2007 - 09:00 PM

^^ Wow....that one was so much easier to focus on

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Posted 04 June 2007 - 11:03 PM

Oh, I dunno...Rikki found it easy to focus on the perverse portion of the other one.

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Posted 04 June 2007 - 11:09 PM

I don't get why the second '2' is different from the first; it worsens the already poor design.

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Posted 04 June 2007 - 11:45 PM

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Oh, I dunno...Rikki found it easy to focus on the perverse portion of the other one.

Considering that the image I was referring to is no longer listed....I guess that would be easy

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Posted 05 June 2007 - 12:20 AM

at least it got one point across: brand awareness

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#27 .Aaron

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Posted 05 June 2007 - 12:20 AM

Whoever designed that logo needs to be fired.

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Post icon Posted 05 June 2007 - 01:06 AM

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Whoever designed that logo needs to be fired.

Why? Obviously, the committee largely in charge of the Olympics liked it enough to pass it. Besides, it's different, and people are talking about it, whether it be positive or negative. I'm sure that's exactly what they want. I can't remember the Syndey logo or the Athens logo, chances are this one is more memorable in the long run.

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Posted 05 June 2007 - 01:13 PM

Another one submitted to the BBC:

They should pick that straight away, it's brilliant.

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#30 RobertMidd

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Posted 05 June 2007 - 01:16 PM

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Another one submitted to the BBC:

They should pick that straight away, it's brilliant.

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Posted 05 June 2007 - 01:20 PM

Zolzdon lol

Anyway yeah that looks good Rikki!

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Posted 05 June 2007 - 01:51 PM

Sean Stayte has a suggestion for a new 2012 Olympics Logo

was featured in BBC

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#33 RobertMidd

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Posted 05 June 2007 - 01:56 PM

The olympic logo is the last thing we should be concerned about for 2012.

The Mayan calendar ends in 2012 and this could spell the end of the world.

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#34 Matt Marshall

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Posted 05 June 2007 - 05:16 PM

I'm sure there's always a calendar which predicts it's the end of the world every year!

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Posted 05 June 2007 - 06:03 PM

http://newsvote.bbc....don/6724245.stm

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The new logo for the 2012 London Olympic Games could trigger epileptic fits and should not be shown on television, an expert has said.

He said the logo has failed the communication watchdog's Ofcom's guidelines and the flickering version of the logo should not be shown again.

Christopher Filmer rang BBC London 94.9FM to say he and his girlfriend both suffered seizure while watching the logo on television.

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