London 2012 logo

[LimpingFish]

From Wiki:

One observer, a managing director of an advertising agency, noted that the logo bore a strong resemblance to the logo for children's television programme Tiswas, commenting that appealing to young people is difficult, and that they will see right through attempts to patronise them.

Early public reaction to the logo, as measured by a poll on the BBC Web site, has been largely negative: more than 83% of the first 16,000 votes gave the logo the lowest possible rating. Critics have claimed that the logo's graphics are out of date, and that the logo does not positively represent the city.

The logo has been quickly derided with an online petition for its replacement receiving 8,000 signatures within 2 hours of it being released on June 4...the petition was closed by its creator after 48,615 signatures in just two days...A counter petition for supporting the logo released on June 5 only received less than 70 signatures in about 24 hours, many of which were intended as a joke, according to the comments.

The free newspaper London Lite, in its 5 June edition, printed a text from a reader pointing out the resemblance of the logo to Lisa Simpson performing oral sex. Numerous sources reported similar remarks being posted on blogs or article comments, while other sources described it as resembling a "broken window", "hip-hop graffiti" and even a "distorted swastika".

A segment of animated footage released at the same time as the logo was criticised as viewing it had triggered seizures in people with photosensitive epilepsy. The charity Epilepsy Action received telephone calls from people who had had seizures after watching the film. In response, it was reported that London 2012 removed the offending segment of footage from its website. Ken Livingstone, the London Mayor, said that the company who designed the film should not be paid a penny for what he called a "catastrophic mistake".

Oops...

[Mr Flibble]

I remember some spokesperson on the news saying that "It's just a logo, you will get used to it."

I thought that was a pretty nice way of avoiding the issue but... hell, I know when I see Lisa Simpson sucking a Christmas Tree and I'm looking at it right now. In another tab, I'm also looking at the logo.

Badum tsssh.

I also have to say, vict0r's logo made me laugh out loud.

[Radiant]

Does anyone remember Dogbert's Brown Ring of Quality? It's a Dilbert strip with roughly the same effect. Dogbert is hired to create a new corporate logo, so he sells them a coffee stain for a ludicrous amount of money.

[m0ds]

I agree that logo sucks! Whoever chose that over all the other ones must be a bit "special".

[Evil]

Does anyone remember Dogbert's Brown Ring of Quality? It's a Dilbert strip with roughly the same effect. Dogbert is hired to create a new corporate logo, so he sells them a coffee stain for a ludicrous amount of money.

That reminds me of this strip that one of my graphics design teachers had on her wall.



I agree, the logo is kinda crappy. I might like it more if it was a different shade, but as Flibble said, we'll all get used to it and learn to love it.

[deadsuperhero]

Goatse anyone?

I died laughing...well done...

[ManicMatt]

Erm... Victor didn't make that, silly people! I found it looking in the same places as him. That is all. Yes I do like correcting people, is that such a sin?

*runs*

[TerranRich]

Bugger off, ManicMatt.

[evenwolf]

Heres my contribution.  Oddly enough this isnt a photoshop.  I keep photos of various games of Scrabble & Tangoes that I played throughout the 80's and 90s'.   Seems Tangoes is a bit of a logo nostradamus!