London 2012 Posters
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- hellobotto0
Yeeeah. I don't know anymore. On one hand I don't want to be a snob, yet on the other these look like shit.
- dbloc0
this is fake right?
- I thought Wolff Olins was doing them all, so it's hard to saymonospaced
- ouchProjectile
- I didn't mean it like that!monospaced
- georgesIII0
^
it better be
- colossalhead0
I don't hate Ben Ben by Sarah Morris.
- dbloc0
- looks like some ancient torture ritegeorgesIII
- or a sex swingscarabin
- dbloc0
I think it's legit...WOW!
- spendogg0
fuckin hell
- polytechnic0
Fions Banner's doesn't offend either but how the bloody hell Tracy Emin has made such a good living out of producing such banal wank will always baffle me. Emperor's new clothes.
- dbloc0
shoulda just hired me.
- ********0
Re-confirmed:
- Eighty0
Not exactly inspiring. I like the colour scheme of Gary Hume's but on the whole these are somewhat shitehouse.
- Melanie0
Awful. But they started out on the wrong foot with the 2012 logo so maybe they're trying to make that look better by the rest of it looking like shit.
- detritus0
I like Rachel Whiteread's effort.
- i_monk0
Did they crowd source these?
- ETM0
The series looks like an art class project.
- goldieboy0
Good god! What a pile of shite! Tracy Emin... Say no more!
- Beeswax0
They should've let art students create some stuff.
There are epic works in the history of Olympic posters but these are epic in an unconventional way.
- ********0
It does seem quite unorthodox that these lack a cohesion across the editions. Considering the weakening primacy of printed matter in our current age, perhaps this was decided (by a committee I can only assume) to be more of a populist exercise.
Accordingly, web/mobile communications could be the media that is better harnessed this summer.
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