Premium Member Phil Rhodes Posted June 5, 2007 Premium Member Share Posted June 5, 2007 Good grief. Didn't I tell you this was going to be fundamentally vacuous and embarrassing? Didn't I tell you? They've sunk to the level of producing a logo which gives (literally, and seriously) gives people epileptic seizures in a desperate bid to hide the hopelessly obvious truth: they got a five year to draw this, using crayons, then presumably used some buzzwords to justify a multimillion price tag. Oh well, one less reason to feel guilty about despising this place. Phil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Tim Partridge Posted June 5, 2007 Share Posted June 5, 2007 It's like a bad Kajagoogoo record sleeve. I don't want to know how much it cost... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Phil Rhodes Posted June 5, 2007 Author Premium Member Share Posted June 5, 2007 Four hundred grand. No, I'm not joking. Oh well, doesn't matter. The project's only two billion over budget as it is. Phil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Buick Posted June 6, 2007 Share Posted June 6, 2007 Maybe on a shirt made in 1990 for 11 year olds. :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 7, 2007 Share Posted June 7, 2007 The logo is beyond hilarious. I thought only Canada would be capable of such a debacle? R, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Collier Posted June 7, 2007 Share Posted June 7, 2007 What I find amazing is that I read theres a machine in London that actualy tests the posibility of a seizure being triggered. The article said they ran the spot through the machine and it failed. Does every bit of video displayed in london have to be passed through a 'epilepsy tester'? Only the Brits would come up with a machine like that. We beta test everything on the populous. If seizures are possible, we'll find out...eventually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexander Joyce Posted June 7, 2007 Share Posted June 7, 2007 Christopher Filmer rang BBC London 94.9FM to say he suffered a seizure while watching the footage on television and his girlfriend also suffered a fit and needed hospital treatment. "The logo came up on TV and I was thinking about the 2012 Games and then I was out," he said. I'm trying to get this picture out of my head! I'm sure the graphic designers bought £400,000 worth of crack, smoked it all and then threw buckets of paint at a white wall. At least that's what it looks like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leo Anthony Vale Posted June 7, 2007 Share Posted June 7, 2007 I'm sure the graphic designers bought £400,000 worth of crack, smoked it all and then threw buckets of paint at a white wall. At least that's what it looks like. It's too straight edged for that. They were sticking up strips of tape. But who would let them have scissors? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Sheehy Posted June 7, 2007 Share Posted June 7, 2007 I had a look at the alternative logos that the BBC collected from readers, and some of them were pretty good. Way classier than the current version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Phil Rhodes Posted June 7, 2007 Author Premium Member Share Posted June 7, 2007 > theres a machine in London that actualy tests the posibility of a seizure being triggered Yes, I sat next to the designer on the plane to IBC last year! It is, so I'm told, necessarily somewhat approximate, but it exists. Uses knowledge about flash rates and colours (3Hz red to blue is apparently the worst) to look at the picture and evaluate it based on the image area covered. Smart piece of kit. Phil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexander Joyce Posted June 7, 2007 Share Posted June 7, 2007 It's too straight edged for that.They were sticking up strips of tape. But who would let them have scissors? Agreed, they must have had masking tape, but I suspect the the same applies to that though. It all looks very random. The logo does resemble someone pushing something over. It could be a reference to cow tipping. An excercise often undertaken by people doped and/or boozed up on something. Or perhaps a new olympic sport? It would only make it the 150th or so addition since they decided to bring the olympics back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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