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Scott
flint knapper
Username: Scott
Post Number: 917
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, April 28, 2005 - 5:26 am: |     |
As you know, Canada won the right to host the 2010 Winter Olympics.
Now, we have just completed a logo and it has come out to harsh criticism. It is supposed to represent an inukshuk, but it isn't even close. And the games are to be held in BC, so that natives there are outraged that something from their culture wasn't used, if a First People's motif was to be used. I don't think this represents Canada at all, and besides, it looks like gumby with a pac-man for a head. Sigh!
Would appreciate your thoughts.
Scott
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Snowwolf
bear cub
Username: Snowwolf
Post Number: 34
Registered: 9-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, April 28, 2005 - 6:19 am: | |
Scott, that says "man in loud clothes flattened by steamroller" to me.
It certainly doesn't make me think "Vancouver" or "Canada" or even "Winter Olympics"!
I can't see many people wanting to buy a soft toy or other souvenir of this, and isn't that usually at least part of what the logo is about - making money?
I hope that the people responsible get a large dose of common sense from somewhere and change it.
"Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement." Gandalf. (JRR Tolkien)
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Da_bear
flint knapper
Username: Da_bear
Post Number: 657
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, April 28, 2005 - 12:30 pm: | |
Its as bad as the Atlanta logo, BC has made the standard!!!!!
I sometimes wonder at what these design guys are thinking.
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. |
Rhi
hunter
Username: Rhi
Post Number: 320
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Friday, April 29, 2005 - 3:04 am: | |
Well, it kinda looks like an inukshuk (or an inunnguaq would prolly be a better description, they are the human looking forms, right?) or is it that inukshuk aren't representitive enough of all of Canada, only the arctic regions? (It's been a long time since I studied this, so I might be misremembering.)
If they were trying to represent the colors of the five rings, shouldn't that dark blue "arms" be black... or was it just coincidence that the colors turned out as such?
Has there been a GOOD Olympic logo in the past handful of Olympics? Some of the old posterlike logos were cool, but the recent ones just haven't been any good. The abstract picture trend is just boring (Barcelona 92, Albertville 92, Atlanta 96, Sydney 00, Salt Lake 02) Lillehammer's 94 was okay, Seoul 88 was pretty good (one version?), LA 84 was interesting but not great (one version, the other was just bad), Moscow 80 was just plain boring, Calgary 88 was okay, but too much like Sarajevo 84, which was more boring, and Lake Placid 80... I don't even know what to say about it.
There's more lame logos, but I only felt comfortable commenting on those in my lifetime. 
Here's a good site that shows a lot (Maybe all, don't know for sure) of the logos: http://www.geocities.com/olympiclogos/ and another that shows a few that are different: http://www98.pair.com/msmonaco/Almanac/Logos.html Does anyone remember the logos in dispute from these sites?
Mostly Harmless |
Scott
flint knapper
Username: Scott
Post Number: 928
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, May 01, 2005 - 5:14 am: | |
LOL Snowwolf and bear! I agree, we have stooped down to meet the standard, way down!
I am not sure of the colours in terms of why they were picked.
I shudder to think how much this woman was paid. Thanks for the list of logos Rhi. Compared to that, it's looking a wee bit better!
Scott
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Ces gens, Jondalar, ils sourient. Ils me sourient. - Ayla |
Rhi
hunter
Username: Rhi
Post Number: 321
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 03, 2005 - 2:49 am: | |
 The logos are been pretty consistantly pathetic for years. Where are all the REAL artists?
Mostly Harmless |
Bartholomewcm
hunter
Username: Bartholomewcm
Post Number: 456
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 03, 2005 - 3:13 am: | |
Who designed that, Bob or Doug, and after how many cans?
Why doesn't the committee go with truth-in-advertising and just put up a green dollar sign (maybe with a little crown over it to symbolize the committee members)?
Would love to see opening ceremonies built around the Lumberjack Song.
To die will be an awfully big adventure.
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Cavebear
flint knapper
Username: Cavebear
Post Number: 1999
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, May 07, 2005 - 11:39 pm: | |
I've seen worse icons... LOL! That one doesn't bother me. |
Frentel
bear cub
Username: Frentel
Post Number: 5
Registered: 7-2005
| | Posted on Monday, August 01, 2005 - 2:36 am: | |
My Social Studies class was discussing it. Our teacher showed us what he would have done. It was a simple tree that used all of the olympic colours (he said that's what they were doing). It looked good and seemed better than the inukshuk |
Cavebear
flint knapper
Username: Cavebear
Post Number: 2186
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Monday, August 01, 2005 - 7:11 pm: | |
Can we see the graphic? It seems like an interesting idea. |
Frentel
bear cub
Username: Frentel
Post Number: 9
Registered: 7-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, September 03, 2005 - 11:03 pm: | |
this didn't quite work, but you should be able to get the link. This is the basic idea. The colours can be swiched though. |
Annie
storyteller
Username: Annie
Post Number: 1557
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, September 04, 2005 - 3:04 am: | |
Thanks, Frentel.  It didn't work because the board doesn't support pictures in bmp format. I converted it to jpg, and here's the picture:
Chess is the purest form of debate, unadulterated by a topic. |
Cavebear
cave painter
Username: Cavebear
Post Number: 2251
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, September 04, 2005 - 3:10 am: | |
Thanks, Annie. Hmmm, I kind of like that one. It does seem Canadian.
Machiavelli was pretty devious. For a guy... |
Scott
flint knapper
Username: Scott
Post Number: 1053
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, September 04, 2005 - 3:50 am: | |
Looks good to me too! Of course the US will probably charge an extra duty on it to have it put on products or in advertising or on their team's clothing - being softwood lumber and all!
Thanks!
Scott
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Ces gens, Jondalar, ils sourient. Ils me sourient. - Ayla |
Annie
storyteller
Username: Annie
Post Number: 1558
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, September 04, 2005 - 3:52 am: | |
This is fun, I decided to try my own version
Chess is the purest form of debate, unadulterated by a topic. |
Cavebear
cave painter
Username: Cavebear
Post Number: 2253
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, September 04, 2005 - 3:53 am: | |
That's GREAT!
Machiavelli was pretty devious. For a guy... |
Scott
flint knapper
Username: Scott
Post Number: 1054
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, September 04, 2005 - 4:29 am: | |
Annie for Prime Minister! Good, PLEASE submit it to our newspapers and the Olympic committee here - I'm begging you!
Awesome Annie!
Scott
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Ces gens, Jondalar, ils sourient. Ils me sourient. - Ayla |
Annie
storyteller
Username: Annie
Post Number: 1559
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, September 04, 2005 - 4:57 am: | |
Thanks guys! Feel free to submit it for me, Scott.
Chess is the purest form of debate, unadulterated by a topic. |
D8katgina
bear cub
Username: D8katgina
Post Number: 1
Registered: 1-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 06, 2005 - 11:39 pm: | |
Posted by Scott...Looks good to me too! Of course the US will probably charge an extra duty on it to have it put on products or in advertising or on their team's clothing - being softwood lumber and all!"
Scott!!
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Colpul
gatherer
Username: Colpul
Post Number: 122
Registered: 8-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 06, 2005 - 11:59 pm: | |
I think 'Stay Puff' brand marshmallows already has that figure trade marked. I like the tree much better but that's just the Druid in me.
"I'm pretty sure even McDonalds has a 'underwear goes inside the pants' policy. Not that they enforce it really strictly, but technically I'm sure it is on the books."-Lazyboy
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Scott
flint knapper
Username: Scott
Post Number: 1070
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 07, 2005 - 12:48 am: | |
Welcome to the board Gina!
Hope da bear isn't lurking around......
Scott
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Ces gens, Jondalar, ils sourient. Ils me sourient. - Ayla |
D8katgina
bear cub
Username: D8katgina
Post Number: 2
Registered: 1-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 07, 2005 - 1:26 am: | |
Why Thank-you Scott!  I've been lurking around here for quite a while now, but was too shy to post anything...
Couldn't resist when I saw that though... |
Da_bear
flint knapper
Username: Da_bear
Post Number: 737
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 07, 2005 - 1:57 am: | |
Of course the US will probably charge an extra duty on it to have it put on products or in advertising or on their team's clothing - being softwood lumber and all
Droll, very droll. 
I wonder where THAT came from???
da bear, goin out to see the timber cut tommorrow.
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. |
Scott
flint knapper
Username: Scott
Post Number: 1074
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, September 08, 2005 - 3:08 am: | |
Going to submit that logo to a couple of the papers here. Will let you know what comes up.
You still have timber there in the US? I saw some twigs down there in Georgia, but trees?
Scott
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Ces gens, Jondalar, ils sourient. Ils me sourient. - Ayla |
Colpul
gatherer
Username: Colpul
Post Number: 126
Registered: 8-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, September 08, 2005 - 7:51 pm: | |
Most of our trees are in Canada right now but we'll come get them just as soon as we finish getting all our oil out of Iraq.
"Uh huh. Uh huh. Okay. Um, can you repeat the part of the stuff where you said all about the ... things?"
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