The 2012 Olympics Logo
by Kevin Harrington / June 5th, 2007
2012 Olympics Logo
The 2012 Olympics logo – I’m not sure I’ve got the energy for this debate!
What do I think of it? Well, at the risk of being controversial, I think it has a fair bit going for it. Who else is using that colour? Who else has used those shapes? What other logo has been recently launched and become so well recognised so quickly.
Some very well scripted vitriol to the contrary is available at Guardian Unlimited: Arts blog – art: How Lisa Simpson got ahead at the Olympics
I am always mindful that a good slagging off from The Guardian doesn’t mean it is a commercial failure.
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June 5th, 2007 at 11:37 am
Ha ha. The BBC Radio 4 folks posted this:
We’re tossing around a few ideas for tonight’s programme, including a follow up on the London 2012 logo.
One suggestion we’re working on is getting one of those head doctors who examines the ink spots, to tell us how he interprets comments on the Blog.
For example – those contributors who suggested (ahem) that the logo shows a couple having sex – what’s going on in THEIR heads?
June 6th, 2007 at 11:39 am
And yet more comment here http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6719805.stm
As you would expect, the opinions are more considered now.
I’m standing by my original position: I don’t think this logo is bad. This blog will still be around in 2012 (I expect) and I don’t expect to have to eat my hat.
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