June 06, 2007

• there's an online petition, if you want your voice heard in support of changing the logo.
• Epilepsy-inducing video here, so you Ian-Curtis-types stay away. (Scroll down a wee bit.) It looks like they hired the animator who did all those A-Ha videos...
• Wow. Even in comparison that's bad.
• thanks for the link Capt, I can't watch it m'self...
• Reminds one of the japanese or hebraic alphabet, and the 'london' seems close to the dreary Comic Sans. 2012? Mh... well if one squints... The future's going to be ugly (designed).
• I must be a Philistine or something, 'cause I really like it.
• Quiet or you'll get more demerits.
• More dermatitis? Better stock up on the Gold Bond™...
• Please see me in my office.
• The BBC had suggestions, and one of them was really nice (it was a round, modern font of London, with the olympic rings going thorough the O and the D or something) - very modern, London looking, like a tube map. Another one was goatse, but they took that down. (linked in mefi thread).
• You know i JUST realized that the logo is supposed to be a blocky 2012. I don't know what the hell I thought it was before... It took me like six web pages full of this logo until I started wondering what the hell the blocks were to represent. Then, and only then, is when I realized what it was. Wow. that's bad.....
• As has been mentioned elsewhere - it looks like it was designed by committee. The designer actually has an impressive portfolio of work - I wonder how much he winces at this himself.
• Compare this piece of trash with the Beijing 2008 logo:

  

  Me, I'm with Chairman Mao.
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• Parenthetical bananas! Brilliant. TUM, I am in awe of your logo.
• Debaser, I still didn't realize it was a 2012 until you mentioned it. I have to say, I've been recovering from a migraine for a day or so, and the logo makes my eyes and head hurt. TUM, that's beautiful! Now who do we bribe on the Olympic Committee?
• Another First, TUMster! I'll be on the um, the throwy team? Where you throw that thing? And then also where they have the cars driving around real fast! VRRrrrrrrmmmm!! A New World Record!! *crowd cheers* Yaaayyyyy!
• Where you throw that thing? A tantrum?
• Not throwing. Flinging. I pity the poor judges. Getting a javelin on the back is one thing, but...
• I was totally thrown for this girl once, but she said it was just a fling...
• Five rings up for TUM!
• This is Chicago's logo for their olympic bid. The flame of the torch alludes to the Chicago city skyline.
• Batman welcomes you to The Games.
• I sort of dig the Chicago logo, though for some reason it reminds me of the cover of an Ayn Rand novel.
• Chicagologo OOOOOOH!
• The Chicago logo makes me want to yell "SURRENDER DOROTHY!!!" But then, the London logo just makes me want to yell "Ew, yuk!" so I suppose this is progress of a sort.
• It totally is Batman! DinininininininOLYMPIIIICS!
• All sport, except the sort that includes the chance of terrible crashes / injuries etc, is essentially rubbish. However, I quite like that Chicago thingy. There. I have shared an opinion.
• Even sofa racing?
• I like ducky races. I really really like those little rubber ducky races.
• You people just want to see a rubber duck crash.
• One of our affiliate programs does an annual Duck Derby. They lose a few every year, even though they have a net at the finish line. Last week, I found a bill for a shipment of new duckies in my in-basket. Processing it was the most fun I've had at work in a long time.
• Rubber Duckies in service to science.
• Yeah, them kinds of races. a BILL for a shipment of new duckies TUM: you be so bad What kind of rubba duck are you? I are definitely haulin’ duck
• Disguised Rubber Duck You are probably a rubber duck, but it’s hard to tell. You’re in disguise - masquerading as a zebra, a soccer ball, or a duckacino. Interesting choice.
• now the agency that created it is basically being stiffed.
• Every time an advertising agency isn't paid their creative costs, baby Jesus cries.