slightly bigger image than the C77 main page. I really like the B&W logos. They’re a little more detailed than past icons, but I think they capture they sports really well. The red-blue line ones, I’m not crazy about. They look unfinished, like they have a bunch of construction lines that need to be erased.
Some of my favorites are…
Tae Kwon Do (Dude getting jump kicked right in the face!)
Mountain biking (cool “perspective-ized” view)
Field hockey
The triathlon logo is nice, fitting all 3 sports in. (Even though triathlons (except the olympic, ultra-competitive, and ironman length) are completely lame.) The 2-3 color versions are nice as well. But, I can’t get past the color selections and graphical language of the 2012 games. It’s not 1987 for crying out loud.
I’m just not into it, the older, modern, simple ones I think were more timeless. They sacrifice universal communicativeness and timelessness for dynamism I think.
The whole of the London Olympics seems to be a lightning rod for design crisitcism. From the logo (so BAD!) to the Millenium dome’s hum-drum architecture
We have to be more hopeful
The UK channel4 logo became a lot more interesting and dynamic when they made these subliminal idents :
let’s hope that London 2012 are planning to wow us all with some equally clever use of the 2012 logo - they didn’t go for an attractive/accessible look but hopefully this was all part of a gamble that involves doing something brilliant with it to impress everyone…
These Vancouver games have really encouraged me about living in Canada. Definitely, great jobs all around in graphic design and the medal designs. I haven’t paid attention to the architecture though.
As for London, I think the 2012 logo is just a complete FAIL with no excuses. The architecture should be expected, the brits don’t want to spend the billions China did just to make an impression. Therefore, they are just buying the cheapest Olympic size stadium they can find, which is also soulless.
As for this being an indicator of a global power shift, I wouldn’t count on it so quickly. I’ll always remember an image I saw (can’t find it on google) of the Sarajevo olympic stadium being bombed out and occupied by tanks during the war. I’m not saying that is going to happen in China or the mid-east, but I wouldn’t count out some of these crown jewels becoming relics more quickly than we think.
Looking at the Vancouver one, I realize the what I don’t like about the London Icons was not that they are complicated… it is that they just are not very good.
The entire Vancouver design direction just feels great. They are doing a fantastic job (though I’m not a fan of the medals, but everything else…)
Ha, yeah, as jazzy as it is I wouldn’t have said it was original.
Being British and now living in Canada I would have to say though that the Motherland has come up short… maybe Phillipe Starck was right
I’m usually blasting on and on about how much more ambitious new architecture in the UK can be… but that stadium, urgh. Considering the budget for the Olympics has jumped from something like 3 billions GBP to 9 billion (I’m so shocked) you would have thought they would have a grander centre piece. I think the London Olympics will be an epic fail all round, the place is washed up.
I think the Vancouver designers got their inspiration here…
Whether or not the designers for the Vancouver branding got inspiration from iStock or not…it works very well. Especially in the city. I have been noticing over the past month or so, the ramp up to the Olympics is in full swing. There are banners all over the city with all this artwork and it is VERY appropriate for the city. From the dynamic nature of the imagery, to the colors, to the excellent execution.
It is all working very well to get me excited for what’s to come to this awesome city in less than 80 days.
I am a huge supporter of the games. I have no problems with the costs associated with it all. I think it is made up for in the excitement and change that it brings to the city.
This is a global event in an amazing city that I am really looking forward to.
I think the icons don’t go nearly far enough into abstraction in comparison with the 2012 logo, which has a brutal vernacular, and a sense of vibration.
