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Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: Cerberus on June 04, 2007, 09:14:31 AM

Title: best £400K ever spent!!
Post by: Cerberus on June 04, 2007, 09:14:31 AM
(https://psx5central.com/community/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fnewsimg.bbc.co.uk%2Fmedia%2Fimages%2F43005000%2Fgif%2F_43005619_london_new_pink_203.gif&hash=3609670860dfcaf3e0d24319c198b2b3b33f7d8d)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/olympics_2012/6718243.stm

that\'s the new logo for the 2012 london olympics, it took the useless fuckwits £400,000 to come up with it.

it\'s hideous.

someone needs to be shot.
Title: best £400K ever spent!!
Post by: Coredweller on June 04, 2007, 09:25:48 AM
Is that supposed to be a stylized map of london?  Kinda confusing to me.
Title: best £400K ever spent!!
Post by: GmanJoe on June 04, 2007, 09:32:46 AM
Someone dropped the logo and broke it.
Title: best £400K ever spent!!
Post by: Kurt Angle on June 04, 2007, 09:34:11 AM
It\'s supposed to say

20
12

as in the Olympic year :rolleyes:
Title: best £400K ever spent!!
Post by: GmanJoe on June 04, 2007, 09:35:30 AM
Quote from: Kurt Angle
It\'s supposed to say

20
12

as in the Olympic year :rolleyes:


A paraplegic Olympian wrote it, then.
Title: best £400K ever spent!!
Post by: Viper_Fujax on June 04, 2007, 10:34:53 AM
looks like they copy and pasted one of the designs from the saved by the bell intro
Title: best £400K ever spent!!
Post by: Samwise on June 04, 2007, 11:06:04 AM
Jeez that\'s horrible. They could give me 200k and I\'d pull a better logo out of my ass and save them 200 grand. :D
Title: best £400K ever spent!!
Post by: Coredweller on June 04, 2007, 11:44:18 AM
Looks more like
 
ZO
R
 
However, I like how they incorporated the national colors of Great Britain.  :)
Title: best £400K ever spent!!
Post by: Cerberus on June 04, 2007, 12:15:20 PM
they should have made it a countrywide competition for school kids, every school in britain gets their kids to create a logo for the olympics, then each school would pick out one winner from their entrants, they would forward it onto a national competition judged by an impartial comittee, who has nothing to do with the british olympic bid

they would choose the overall winner, then it would be professionally rendered by a graphic design company.

it would cost a hell of a lot less than £400K, and I\'d bet sammy\'s arse that it would look better too, and the winning school could win a financial award for new equipment or something.

but oh no, we don\'t think like that in the UK,
Title: best £400K ever spent!!
Post by: Evi on June 04, 2007, 12:16:45 PM
That is one of the crappiest logos I\'ve ever seen. They should\'ve just gone to www.sitepoint.com (http://www.sitepoint.com) or something. Or had someone who\'s been using Photoshop for 3 minutes because that person would still be able to make a better logo than this explosive diarrhea of design.

Edit: Are they freaking blind or stupid? Did you see the "alternate logos"? Here\'s some samples ~>

(https://psx5central.com/community/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi10.tinypic.com%2F4mmcxo0.jpg&hash=0f7bdc7689d23aca2e27341a2799ec5b504db310)

(https://psx5central.com/community/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi12.tinypic.com%2F681wkg0.jpg&hash=8e6947a6a51cb6bb6b881cd06f319464bf34f508)

(https://psx5central.com/community/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi8.tinypic.com%2F6cx2a0y.jpg&hash=3ed5804ed89a5aedd36d4cb8a7147c3eefe13e44)

:stick:
Title: best £400K ever spent!!
Post by: JBean on June 04, 2007, 12:28:34 PM
those are just logos that average people made, not that company that was hired to make the ZOR one
Title: best £400K ever spent!!
Post by: Evi on June 04, 2007, 12:30:48 PM
Ok...well...with that in mind...the official logo isn\'t much better. :stick:
Title: best £400K ever spent!!
Post by: nO-One on June 04, 2007, 05:28:27 PM
Well the logo sucks ass, then I read somewhere that it kinda looks like Lisa Simpson giving somebody a blowjob.... and it kinda does... well it makes it suck in a good way.
Title: best £400K ever spent!!
Post by: Phil on June 04, 2007, 05:48:51 PM
Reminds me of my university only on a much larger, dumber scale.  We spent 40k on a new logo that pretty much just italicized the C claw.  Of course we also spent over 100 grand replacing EVERYTHING in the school to fit the new logo.  Keep in mind my university has one of the best design schools in the world.  Why our new president decided to be a dumb bitch is beyond me.

old look
(https://psx5central.com/community/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sportsposterwarehouse.com%2Fwarehouse%2Fcincinnati9bsi-3.jpg&hash=439e4a98bb0a0718a6b6d03842e9c8014be2e47c)

40 grand later

(https://psx5central.com/community/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.magazine.uc.edu%2Fcpaw%2Fimages%2F2005.jpg&hash=d57027472120cf5e01a1c70b13185c477bbbeebe)

Nowhere near the atrocity of the Olympic logo but still retarded.
Title: best £400K ever spent!!
Post by: Cerberus on June 04, 2007, 10:08:48 PM
Quote from: nO-One
Well the logo sucks ass, then I read somewhere that it kinda looks like Lisa Simpson giving somebody a blowjob.... and it kinda does... well it makes it suck in a good way.

I read the same thing, can\'t quite see it myself though.

the bbc have been getting viewers to submit their own ideas for an olympic design, they are all better than the official one.

(https://psx5central.com/community/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fnewsimg.bbc.co.uk%2Fmedia%2Fimages%2F43006000%2Fjpg%2F_43006855_james_wren_416.jpg&hash=67cc650b411749b14db5b4304cd54e1e57a04d47)

they showed one on breakfast tv that isn\'t on their website, and it was pretty neat, it spelt london with 2012, kind of like 2012don, the first 2 was made to look like a capitalized "L" and the 12 was made to look like an "n"
Title: best £400K ever spent!!
Post by: Samwise on June 04, 2007, 10:38:29 PM
Quote from: Cerberus
I read the same thing, can\'t quite see it myself though.
Heh, how can you not see it. I tried right after nO-One mentioned it and sure enough, it\'s right there. :D

The rings are in her head, the dude is on the left, with "London" on what could be his arm. She\'s kinda crouched... like... giving a BJ. ;)
Title: best £400K ever spent!!
Post by: Cerberus on June 04, 2007, 11:58:22 PM
fucking hell, I can see it now.

you fuckers have dirty minds.

:p
Title: best £400K ever spent!!
Post by: square_marker on June 05, 2007, 02:44:29 AM
special olympics more like it
Title: best £400K ever spent!!
Post by: Unicron! on June 05, 2007, 03:39:00 AM
They talk a lot about the "brand", how people want to receive it, what they "want" people to do when they see it etc....but they haven\'t explained why how and most importantly  WTF is shown in that God damn logo!

What on earth does it represent and how did they come up with it?

How are people going to identify with some random shapes? I am trying to understand  what is it supposed to hide behind its shapes but I see nothing.

If it forms various sports with each each shape arrangement it will be nice though.
Title: best £400K ever spent!!
Post by: Cerberus on June 05, 2007, 11:22:56 AM
scoring one "own goal" is bad enough, scoring two is downright amateurish

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6724245.stm
Title: best £400K ever spent!!
Post by: JBean on June 05, 2007, 11:55:42 AM
Quote from: Unicron!
They talk a lot about the "brand", how people want to receive it, what they "want" people to do when they see it etc....but they haven\'t explained why how and most importantly  WTF is shown in that God damn logo!

What on earth does it represent and how did they come up with it?

How are people going to identify with some random shapes? I am trying to understand  what is it supposed to hide behind its shapes but I see nothing.

If it forms various sports with each each shape arrangement it will be nice though.


it\'s the year of the olympics nothing more

2  0
1  2

2012
Title: best £400K ever spent!!
Post by: Coredweller on June 05, 2007, 02:22:19 PM
Quote from: Unicron!
What on earth does it represent and how did they come up with it?
 
How are people going to identify with some random shapes? I am trying to understand what is it supposed to hide behind its shapes but I see nothing.
 
If it forms various sports with each each shape arrangement it will be nice though.
You might want to read the thread before posting.
Title: best £400K ever spent!!
Post by: Cerberus on June 05, 2007, 03:18:12 PM
everytime I see it now, I think of LS giving head.
Title: best £400K ever spent!!
Post by: THX on June 05, 2007, 08:07:15 PM
Working with people that make this stuff for a living I can tell you although it may not be pretty it\'s supposed to be striking, something to make people remember.  That\'s it\'s main purpose.

*looks at logo again*

nvm, it\'s shit
Title: best £400K ever spent!!
Post by: Evi on June 05, 2007, 08:22:53 PM
Quote from: Cerberus
everytime I see it now, I think of LS giving head.
Yeah, I see it now too. You guys need your dirty minds rinsed with Tide.
Title: best £400K ever spent!!
Post by: §ôµÏG®ïñD on June 05, 2007, 08:36:26 PM
1.2 mil aud to make that piece of shit.


ahhhh i see, it was to supply the huge amount of smack and rocks those fuckers were on.
Title: best £400K ever spent!!
Post by: Unicron! on June 06, 2007, 04:36:42 AM
Quote from: Coredweller
You might want to read the thread before posting.

Well I was expecting to see the explanation in the article. Unless I missed it
Title: best £400K ever spent!!
Post by: Coredweller on June 06, 2007, 08:31:06 AM
People around the world are looking at the logo and talking about it right now.  Many of them will remember it.
 
By some standards, you might say the logo is already a success.
Title: best £400K ever spent!!
Post by: Cerberus on June 06, 2007, 09:03:24 AM
yeah, as total failures go, this one was a complete success

:D
Title: best £400K ever spent!!
Post by: GmanJoe on June 06, 2007, 09:25:48 AM
Quote from: Coredweller
People around the world are looking at the logo and talking about it right now.  Many of them will remember it.
 
By some standards, you might say the logo is already a success.


If by success, you mean people around the world are saying "That piece of shit cost $800,000 to make?" then yes, it wins. :p