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Anoyone missed that the olympics will be held in London year 2012? Who here knows where the olympics will be held NEXT year (without looking up wikipedia)?

I got it.... it's debris!

Btw. The video is fucking beautiful :)

I assume most people who read news papers at a regular basis knows where the next olympics will be, it's not like it's a secret.

Since it was unveiled 2 days ago at this moment just under 43000 people have signed the petition for them to scrap it. The petition website is jammed!

http://www.gopetition.co.uk/signatures.php?petid=12539

William Hill are offering 10/1 on whether the logo is scrapped by the end of the year

http://www.casinotimes.co.uk/casino-news/2007-06/william-hill-logo-050607.htm

I put my money on the goatse - I have total respect in that guy for pulling off such a cunning stunt!

[self-rant mode = on]Forget what I wrote in my previous post. I was upset, tired, thirsty, sweaty, it was too warm in the office, usw... As far as I am concerned, there's nothing in this video, except professionnal artists doing their jobs. I should have shut the fuck up. As a matter of fact, that's what I'm gonna do. Sincere apologies for the thread noise.[self-rant mode = off]

I think the next Olympic Games are to be held in in China - either Shanghai or Beijing - I can't remember - The only world sports I care for are Football, Rugby and Cricket (though Rugby world cup is really a by-product of Rupert Murdoch's evil empire).

Cricket isn't a world sport. Hockey is.

xernobyl:epilectics that are only a certain type.. ones who are affected by "photo sensitivity" , so it's not all of them.. strobing and effects like that I guess. they reckon there is 23,000 of them in the UK.

I did like the logo with 2012, that had the 2 that looked like LONDON

20 formed the L and O
the 12 bit formed an N.. thing is that took the guy 10 minutes to make it.

Hockey was a girls game at my school.

Field hockey is. Ice hockey is for gay man that like to fight, and rink hockey is for real men.

Unfortunatly a certain spanish ex-IOC president said, in 1992, that rink hockey would be an olympic sport and it still isn't. Fuckings to him!

TomS4wy3r: By professional artists you mean blind monkeys, right?

Haha, they should have a fucking graffiti battle for the logo. They want to bring the spirit of the games to the youth of the world, then they should do just that :D

But really I just see some awful gameshow coming out of this "Logo Superstar 2008", where a bunch of closet doodlers come to get jerked off on camera by Ant and Dec before being shot down in a hailstorm of flaming flipchart pages and dashed dreams. The winner will likely be a cheerful and borderline obese estate agent rewarded with a new highly paid job to devise comic strips pushing healthy eating on unwilling schoolkids. I have it all carefully planned out and will sell the rights for a reasonable sum.

Doom : Sometimes, even monkeys fall from trees... =)

the clip for the thing was actually pretty cool. the logo still sucks ass though :D

I agree with ps, the promo is pretty good in advocating the style the logo ought to be seen in. But that's the problem, really: the promo is actually the only reasonable vehicle for the logo.

The moment the whole goddamn world is your audience, you can't expect people to have the same aesthetics as a bunch of grumpy demosceners.

What are you talking about? I've seen early 90s promos for kids' TV channels that have similar style and ideas but with a much more appealing result. This is visual vomit, nothing more.

They even completely fail to illustrate the themes (London and The Olympics). Show it without the word "London" and the Olympics logo and nobody would have a clue what they're announcing.

And technically, it's as unimpressive as anything gets. It could be done in an hour, by a complete amateur, using an A500 and some random stock footage.

Anyway, fuckings to any epileptic who knowingly sits down in front of millions of little flashing lights and then, because that happened to be a bad idea, starts to advocate censorship of certain choices of colour and lighting schemes.

you don't understand. When it comes to Olympics, World Cup, and so on, the goal is to do the worst logo or mascot ever. Remember the France World Cup 98 mascot "Footix"? Oh god, this was so painful and ridiculous. We still wonder how french team was able to win with such a poor mascot. Oh maybe thanks to "Gloria Gaynor - We will survive", the gay anthem. Because actually, football players are gay, this is a well-known matter of fact.

you don't understand. When it comes to Olympics, World Cup, and so on, the goal is to do the worst logo or mascot ever. Remember the France World Cup 98 mascot "Footix"? Oh god, this was so painful and ridiculous. We still wonder how french team was able to win with such a poor mascot. Oh maybe thanks to "Gloria Gaynor - We will survive", the gay anthem. Because actually, football players are gay, this is a well-known matter of fact.

twice?

YEAH BIG UP TO FOOTIX!!

{quote]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPjF8iL8qA4[/quote]

I love the "SHIT" logo so much more! \o/

Oh, for the lot of fecking-bb-sod-off-go-away-and-die-please-kthxbye-code....



There! (I hope. Only gay monkeys use the preview button, right?)