Yes. It's ugly.
Posted on 06/05/2007 10:22:57 PM PDT by Sleeping Beauty
THE controversial 2012 London Olympics logo was rocked by another blow last night — after it was ruled too dangerous to view on-screen.
An animated version of the symbol used on TV and the internet had to be dropped because it could trigger fits in thousands of people.
The £400,000 logo, a graffiti-style spelling of 2012 in shades of pink, blue, green and orange, was branded “hideous” when it was launched on Monday.
And Olympics bosses were left squirming with embarrassment after an epilepsy group reported 12 cases of people collapsing through looking at it.
Epilepsy Action warned that 23,000 mainly young people in the UK were at risk from the TV and internet version.
They suffer from the photosensitive form of epilepsy and flickering images can trigger fits.
It is estimated there are 2.5million people worldwide with the condition — which could have left the Olympic Organising Committee facing massive injury lawsuits.
Epilepsy Action spokeswoman Ingrid Burns said: “The logo was not safe for people with photosensitive epilepsy.
“Within hours of it being launched we received 12 reports of people suffering seizures.
“This is extremely serious. Young people up to the age of about 19 are most at risk — and they are the logo’s main target group.” Leading epilepsy expert Professor Graham Harding said: “I can’t imagine how this slipped through.
“Thousands of people could have been affected. It’s serious and has to be corrected.”
London 2012 committee boss Lord Seb Coe defended the design, saying: “It won’t be to be everybody’s taste immediately, but it’s a brand we believe can be hard working.”
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Yes. It's ugly.
It looks like a fat guy with the Olympic rings on his ass sitting down on a toilet marked “London”. WTF?
According to experts -- if you de-construct the logo -- it spells ---> ZION!
So, what do you think?
It’s a fractured swastika. With a little pink thrown in for gay subversiveness. Whatever the “artists’” reasons, I say it is crap. Compare it with the poster for the last time London hosted the olympics. Art has been successfully marx-ificated, if that’s even a word...
its the joos
Fits! He called seizures fits! Oh hold me, I'm going to swooooon!
Definitely.
Why do the Joos hate epileptics?
Very ugly. Can’t they redo it?
You’re got a point. LOL!
REDO IT???
They just paid $800,000 for this -- according to the article (and my knowledge of exchange rates).
LOL
No doubt it is very ugly.... But triggering epileptic fits???
Get some help. I mean it. Really. Call your doctor in the morning. Promise?
Ie., it is a fake controversy, intended to generate talk.
Too bad it's working... the Olympics are getting all the attention they craved. £400,000 may well be a bargain for them.
Don't ever post to one of my threads again. I mean it!
Compare the logo and poster from the London Olympics in 1948:
More logos and posters here: http://www.aldaver.com
I can figure it out on my own.
Top left - L
Top right - R
Bottom Left - stylized S
Bottom Right - R
What does it spell? LOSR, or ‘loser’.
Someone has played a practical joke on the London committee.
I love classic design, too. There’s no hope for us, I fear.
It’s late. Let me try again:
I can figure it out on my own.
Top left - L
Top right - O
Bottom Left - stylized S
Bottom Right - R
What does it spell? LOSR, or ‘loser’.
Someone has played a practical joke on the London committee.
I'd say that one looks a little dated, and may not be suitable for all means of display due to resolution limits (e.g. trying to form the buildings out of "neon" tubes could be difficult). Still loads better than the new logo, though.
“it is a fake controversy”
Photosensitive seizures are a very real thing.
Couldn't help but notice the image link to RuMills. And how about that subliminal Nazi triskelion.
Those clever Jooooos.
Me thinks they were ripped off. My 9 yr old granddaughter has more artistic skill than this....
"YEEEEEE-OOOOOOWWWWWWW!"
LOL. Thanks for playing!
It must explode or something...like the pokeman cartoons in japan
Somebody made a goatse version of this, and the BBC actually showed it on air.
Note: if you don’t know what goatse is, I beg of you to *remain ignorant*. You do NOT want to know. Trust me.
Oh gawd. I’m probably the only person on ths forum who know what a goatse is.
Were you at Kuro5hin?
No, I don’t know what that is. You can see the Olympic Logo version here, though:
http://www.videosift.com/video/BBC-airs-Goatse-logo-for-London-Olympics-2012
Don’t worry. It’s not dirty. Nobody who didn’t know what it was would know what it was, which I’m sure is true of the BBC producer who put this together.
Breathtaking! Like a punch in the gut.
ROFL nice
Here's the animated version that will supposedly trigger your epilepsy. Don't look if you have epilepsy!
Whatever happened to ‘happy’ logos?
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
I'm telling you, whoever came up with that logo had to be every bit as queer as a three dollar bill, and pretty dammed stupid all at the same time.
I thought we weren’t allowed to post stuff from The Onion.
And now somewhere a moslem will be offended.
IZZI, from the Atlanta Olympics. They hated him when he was introduced too, said he looked like a blue sperm wearing sneakers, IIRC.
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