My mind wanders. And that's not a good thing, 'cause it's too small to be out there alone. Posts: 3129 | From: Tooele, UT | Registered: Mar 2005
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Are they expecting a resurgence in the popularity of "new wave" music and fashion? I'll be glad to pull out my Flock of Seagulls and General Public t-shirts and send them across the pond!
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Rock and Roll means well, but it can’t help tellin’ young boys lies. Mike Cooley - Drive By Truckers Posts: 453 | From: Greenwood, South Carolina | Registered: Apr 2007
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I'm getting a lot of entertainment out of this today.... LOL. Here's the ad agency's website that produced the $800,000 piece of junk...
(Go to Our Work> London 2012. The 'Interact' button brought up more useless garbage.) Edited to add: Hahaha.. Lotti posted the same thing while I was adding that...
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and they can't even faaakin spell organiZations!!(not organisations)dipshyts! that is one of the worst websites i've ever seen, especially from a place that commands $800k for a suckass logo such as the the 2012 olympics. i think i just vomited in my mouth.
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What's bad about that is, it might start a trend.
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I tell you what sucks is the logo for "americas got Talent" damn what were they thinking
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Must be one o them their Batcheler Deeegreees. You know, with a kollidge digree, you kin get a hunert grand a yeer. My kownsilor sed so. I werk for won uf them their hy-doller dezine ferms.
Disclaimer: Now, before you get into an uproar, I feel artistic talent is natural, not learned in college. A degree can enhance an already talented person, but is not necessary to be a successful designer.
""Good judgment comes from experience; and a lot of that comes from bad judgment" - Will Rogers Posts: 3484 | From: Beautiful Newaygo, Michigan | Registered: Mar 2003
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It's Ozzy spelt backwards isn't it? I think they should have come up with a better way to accolade their rocker. Even Sharon Osborne won't like it. But hey, whatever splits their peas!
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You're just jealous 'cause the little voices only talk to me. Posts: 1904 | From: Hanover, Ontario, Canada | Registered: Dec 1998
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And if you think about it this way. The person who designed it was just short of a genius.
Look at the attention it has drawn to the 2012 olympics. People in general tend to be drawn to talk a lot more about a negative subject than a positive one. If you don't believe me than just watch the nightly news.
Like it or not, it is doing the job it was intended to do.
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"Life is Like an Echo, what you put out, comes back to you." Posts: 5149 | From: Millbury, Mass. U.S. | Registered: Nov 1998
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I agree Bob. I think the logo sucks but it’s sure doing it job (minus the epileptic seizures) They talked about it like 3 times on the national news this morning. Think about if it was a normal ad or commercial how much do think that would cost to broadcast. Every one expects the logo to be nice, but a horrible one… that gets people talking. Genius! I bet it’s safe to say that this logo has paid for it’s self multiple times with the amount of publicity it has generated. Hell, I didn’t even know where the 2012 Olympics were being held. I guess I just haven’t been paying attention. I’m focusing on the Chicago Olympics!!! I like that logo…
-------------------- Joe Diaz Diaz Sign Art 628 W. Lincoln Ave. Pontiac, IL 61764 www.diazsignart.com Posts: 538 | From: Pontiac, IL | Registered: Aug 2005
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The latest from the NY Times... June 7, 2007 2012 Olympic Logo: Sparks Precede the Flame By ALAN COWELL LONDON, June 6 — It was said to provoke epileptic seizures. Someone compared it to a broken swastika or “some sort of comical sex act between ‘The Simpsons.’ ” The mayor was not amused.
The rollout of London’s new logo for the 2012 Olympics, in other words, has not been an unalloyed triumph.
Two days after it was introduced on Monday, the logo — a composition of subway-graffitilike, jagged-edged cutouts roughly denoting the figures 2012, in pink and yellow — has become front-page news. One newspaper, The Sun, ran a competition to discover whether amateur designers — two of whom it identified in its pages as a monkey and a blind woman — could do better.
An online petition gathered 35,000 signatures to protest the logo and demand that it be replaced. But perhaps the brouhaha evoked some other considerations, most notably concerning Britons’ ambivalent attitude not just to winning the right to stage the Olympics, but also to dealing with innovation, design and success itself.
The logo “is not simple, it is not memorable, it is not beautiful,” the columnist Magnus Linklater wrote in The Times of London. “It is bound to be a success.”
To the 2012 Organizing Committee, “the new emblem is dynamic, modern and flexible.”
An animated version on a Web site was withdrawn after advocacy groups representing people with epilepsy said that flashing lights provoked more than 10 seizures among the estimated 23,000 people vulnerable to a photo-sensitive form of epilepsy.
The display was withdrawn, but the mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, who had reportedly refused to endorse the logo, also took issue with the $800,000 tab for designing it without a study of its impact.
“If you employ someone to design a car and it kills you, you’re pretty unhappy about that,” he said. “If you employ someone to design a logo for you and they haven’t done a basic health check, you have to ask what they do for their money.”
On Web sites, critics registered sharp opposition. “It resembles a swastika and looks like graffiti — two things London is not about and should not aspire to,” said an opponent, Peter Donovan.
The organizing committee insisted that it would not withdraw the logo. Indeed, Sebastian Coe, the committee chairman, called it “an invitation to take part and be involved.”
It was an invitation that British newspapers accepted with glee.
Most newspapers said Wednesday that their readers had sent in their own versions. The Sun published a display of five alternative designs, one painted by a macaque monkey named Katie. Another was reported as having come from Deborah Jones, 36, who was said to be blind.
As a columnist, Jane Moore, wrote in The Sun, the Olympic organizers say, “It’ll grow on us.”
“So does foot fungus,” she added.
But might the response have said more about a conservative nation’s resistance to newness? Or could the reaction have touched also on a deep-seated and curmudgeonly reluctance to play host to a venture like the Olympics without forecasting its doom well in advance?
“When something is so swingingly attacked as the 2012 logo has been, it tells you more about the people doing the attacking, and their taste, than about the design in question,” said Michael Wolff, the co-founder of Wolff Olins, the branding agency that designed the logo. “Prejudice is comfortable and lazy.”
Mr. Wolff, who has since formed a separate company, went on to say in The Evening Standard, “I think this petulant reaction will subside and pride will take its place.”
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“Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.” AA Milne Posts: 3722 | From: Folsom, CA | Registered: Dec 2001
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if these "promotoers" people who put these events together....WOULD HIRE SIGN PEOPLE instead of ARCHITECTUAL DESIGN FIRMS this kinda CRAP WOULDNT BE SEEN!!!!!!!!!!! in all my yrs....anytime an ARCHETECUAL firm/designer was involved it was THE WORST PIECE OF CRAP I EVER SEEN...and these dodo's ARE PROUD OF THIS SCHIT....THEY DESIGN.
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""Good judgment comes from experience; and a lot of that comes from bad judgment" - Will Rogers Posts: 3484 | From: Beautiful Newaygo, Michigan | Registered: Mar 2003
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YOU WOULD TAKE MONEY FOR THAT???????????????????
-------------------- joe pribish-A SIGN MINT 2811 longleaf Dr. pensacola, fl 32526 850-637-1519 BEWARE THE TRUTH.....YOU MAY NOT LIKE WHAT YOU FIND Posts: 11582 | From: pensacola, fl. usa | Registered: Nov 1998
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Hey Rick, ol' buddy ol'pal... Remember back in January when we were having lunch in New Orleans and I sneezed into my napkin and you said it gave you an idea?
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David, I suppose you're selling CD's with the logos in different formats to them for about $1500 a pop too, huh?? hehe.
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