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Monday, 4th June 2007

No go with the logo

1:58pm

I am a big fan of the London Olympics but I am not a fan of their new logo. It looks like one of the puzzles from the Krypton Factor c.1977 or a very bad local authority advert for a Festival of Fitness. Apparently it is meant to appeal to the “Google Generation”. Dear me, no.

                                                                                                                                                                                   

             

                               

 

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hogarth zombie

June 4th, 2007 2:31pm

I imagine it cost the taxpayer an arm and a leg

Og

June 4th, 2007 4:11pm

I expected an ironic offering including a syringe and a bottle of pills.

martin riley

June 4th, 2007 4:40pm

Trivial.

Rafal H-M

June 4th, 2007 5:05pm

This logo is the sort of thing my 14 year old cousin used to draw on the covers of her secondary school note books back in the mid-1980s. Very Tiswas and Swap Shop!! Read my blog: http://www.bloggingyoungfogey.blogspot.com

EyeSee

June 5th, 2007 12:54pm

It looks like a partially complete building, so is likely to be very London Olympics.

Lynda Plum

June 5th, 2007 5:17pm

It looks like it could be the site plan for where they're building the Olympic Games, or an exploded swastika or SS symbol. It's hideous

Patrick Briggs

June 6th, 2007 11:24am

A misunderstanding being perpetrated by some in the media about the London 2012 logo is that the "logo" is the "brand" - that the two words are interchangeable. A "brand" is the summation of all aspects of something (usually a product or service) as perceived and experienced by observers (usually the consumer). A "logo" is merely the visual identity symbol that stands for the values of that brand. So for London 2012 the test of the logo must be whether it truly represents the brand values of the event. London 2012 is about the city of London, about the nation and about sport. So the logo should similarly be immediately identifiable as being of London, of Britain and about sport. The chosen design fails on all three counts.

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