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Olympic logo costs hundreds of thousands of dollars, triggers seizures

Olympic logoThe 2012 Olympic logo is receiving a considerable amount of negative feedback concerning the overall aesthetic quality. The negativity doesn’t stop there. Apparently, the logo – under certain situations – triggers epileptic seizures for certain people.

A segment of animated footage promoting the 2012 Olympics has been removed from the organisers’ website after fears it could trigger epileptic seizures. Prof Graham Harding, who developed the test used to measure photo-sensitivity levels in TV material, said it should not be broadcast again. Charity Epilepsy Action said it had received calls from people who had suffered fits after seeing it.

I vaguely recall reading that the cost of the logo was in the ballpark arena of $400,000. For shits ‘n giggles, can anyone whip up their own rendition of the 2012 Olympic logo? If you think you can top it, drop your hosted image link in the comments.


  • http://www.matkins70.com/blog Mikey
  • Paul

    It was not $400,000 it was £400,000 which at current exchange rates is just shy of $599,999!!

  • http://winnopeg.com Andre

    @Paul: £400,000 isn’t $599,999 USD… Try $796,856.15 USD. http://www.xe.com/ucc/

    http://img9.imagepile.net/img9/12224olympicgschpunken.gif

  • Jim

    I think Andre’s wins…

  • cynic821

    timed myself @ around 5 minutes, a little over maybe:

    http://www.isarapix.com/pix37/1181172705.png

    oh, on a macbook pro with no mouse, LOL.

    can i have my 400,000 dollar check now please? im kind of in a hurry.

  • http://jump4jay.com Jay

    LOL
    A friend on Twitter said yesterday that it looked like Lisa Simpson giving a blowjob, I agreed. You nailed it Andre!

  • chad

    wow that IS fucking horrible.

    this come circa 1982?

  • carl

    wow it really does look like lisa givin a bj

    o and
    http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1762625

    it would be funny if they chose the 1st submission ..watch to see what i mean

  • http://mavrev.com Matt

    Done in 2 minutes, first time using Inkscape using a font called British Paticerpants….

    http://img505.imageshack.us/img505/7044/londonpl2.png

    It sucks I know. But it’s at least readable and doesn’t feature a SImpson.

  • Muff

    complete shit.

  • Antonio

    I’d really like to know what the designer was thinking of when he come up with this “thing”… better yet, what was the person(s) that approved it as the official logo thinking when he(they) did so.

  • Ryan

    Mikey’s one’s the best.

    Game over. :P

  • http://joeanderson.co.uk/blog/ Joe Anderson

    The BBC has a lot of amateur made logos, much better than this one too.

  • Steph

    Mikey’s one is amazing! =D

  • Steph

    Mikey’s one is the best! =D

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