2012 London Olympics Logo : Hot or not?
When the London Olympics 2012 committee unveiled their logo for the summer games a few days ago, it received instant negative feedback from the British media. Comments heard were weird, hideous, uncreative to kid’s play. Some even call it the worst logo of all Olympic games.
The reported epileptic seizures when viewing the promotional video with the logo didn’t help the cause at all.
For me, the logo is okay, looks modern but looks like more appropriate for a t-shirt brand, not for the olympics but that’s exactly what they were trying to do - to create a brand instead of a logo. Why the media and public backlash? Well because it took them a year to come up with it and cost them 400K pounds.
BBC News readers showed that they can do a better job by sending in their own alternative logo suggestions, you can check them out here and here.
I checked out all the other past (and 1 future) games’ logo just out of curiosity - here I share with you. All of these logos were taken from the Olympic games website.
Games earlier than 1924 didn’t have logos.
June 7th, 2007 at 9:51 am
I still think it’s kind of a daring thing for them to do…,
Maybe they are trying to be different. Oh well, you can’t please everyone right?
June 7th, 2007 at 10:09 am
sum say the 2012 logo looks like lisa simpson giving head!
June 7th, 2007 at 10:34 am
OMG Ed!!! YOU”VE DESTROYED MY VIEW ON THE LOGO! hahahahahahahahaha
she’s kneeling kan? hahaha cilakakkkkkkkkkkk!
June 7th, 2007 at 10:35 am
i see 2 ZZ and I feel sleepy (LOL)
hehe..
June 7th, 2007 at 12:27 pm
More like pink potatoes chips to me or scrambled origami. It’s fugly
June 7th, 2007 at 2:23 pm
Well, if Malaysia ever host the Olympics, can you imagine what the logo would be? LOL!
June 7th, 2007 at 3:15 pm
hahaha betul tu badak, actually I think got it from digg/reddit ada tu satu comment macam tu hahaha
June 7th, 2007 at 3:38 pm
NOT!
June 7th, 2007 at 3:56 pm
I have to admit that the logo was done with bad taste. A logo has to capture the very essence of the host country and the spirit of the games itself. One look at a logo should tell you where the games is being held without even having to actually read the country name on it. Take Beijing for instance. The sportsman image in the middle is symbolically created out of a ‘Chinese character’. One look and you know it’s in China. The same goes with Japan, using the image of the ‘rising sun’, Barcelona with the ‘bulls horns’, Sydney with the ‘boomerang’, Los Angeles with the ‘Stars and Stripes’, etc, etc, etc. And they all also incorporate an element of sports into it with the running figure or elements of speed such as lines, swooshes and more. Now, with the London one, you don’t know what the heck it represents, London bridge is falling down perhaps?
June 7th, 2007 at 6:47 pm
Isk Nick Phillips..panjang ucapan ko tapi bernas..heheheh… I think the logo looks like jigsaw puzzle. I could have done a better design…