Comments on: This is a joke, right?

By: focalplane

focalplane — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 16:06:29 +0000

Right now I am in Africa (Congo) where this design could also be considered appropriate. . . to the Congo. A sort of Kwanza celebration, perhaps. But as the logo for London 2012 it stinks (I did see the numerics, but only because I couldn’t think what else the shapes could possibly stand for).

Ken (above) hits the nail on the head. Obviously a PowerPoint product. UGH!

As to the Lisa Simpson analog – yes, it’s there all right! Perhaps if we talk more about that than simple bad design the committee that approved it will dis-approve it?

By: Viggy

Viggy — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 18:47:35 +0000

God, it’s just beyond hideous. When I first saw it, I thought someone had dropped something.

It’s like one of the puzzles off the Krypton Factor.

Yet more scorn has been thrown onto the design. They’ve had to pull certain versions of it from the official website due to around 20 people with epilepsy complaining that looking at it had induced a fit. I kid ye not – see here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6724245.stm

By: Dave Shelton

Dave Shelton — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 07:19:47 +0000

I don’t see it, I don’t see it, I… oh… now I see nothing else.

By: Pete Ashton

Pete Ashton — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 05:51:20 +0000

I probably shouldn’t say this, but there’s a growing consensus on the “Lisa Simpson giving head” interpretation…

By: Russ L

Russ L — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 05:11:21 +0000

"How many people will see the 2012 part in all of this?" I didn't, until you pointed it out. Since it's all about winning medals, I think they should use Can I Plz Has Dis Shiny Device

By: Dave C

Dave C — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 21:40:20 +0000

It is the best they could design after drinking £400,000 worth of alcopops :)

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 19:50:07 +0000

An entire planet watching. A nation with a reputation for great design. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAArgh

By: Ken Davidson

Ken Davidson — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 19:44:16 +0000

Well, are we surprised? It’s clearly not the best that British design can conjur up, just what some visually illiterate decision-maker sketched in PowerPoint for the brief. A truly awful and ultimately obfuscating image. Good design should be transparent – not something that pains the viewer to decipher. How many people will see the 2012 part in all of this?

By: Dave Shelton

Dave Shelton — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 17:28:30 +0000

Described by members of the public as looking like “a childish mess” and “a broken swastika” apparently.

By: Dave Shelton

Dave Shelton — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 17:07:24 +0000

What? Who? How…?

Even allowing for the kind of creativity-destroying committee process this is likely to have gone through it is still utterly astonishingly, unforgivably, mind meltingly bad.

And have you watched the video? It’s considerably worse.