Tokyo 2020 logo
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- shapesalad0
saw this posted on LinkedIn:
"Imagine you have some important guests around for dinner. You spend weeks trying to liaise schedules and planning what you're going to cook, buy the best ingredients, put out your fancy cutlery, and spend a day preparing and cooking everything. The guests finally arrive and everything is ready...only you can't speak to them, and you can't eat anything.
Now replace weeks with 7 years, tens of billions of dollars, massive upgrades in infrastructure/facilities, and the worlds best athletes from all over the world. With the announcement by Japan for a state of emergency throughout the Olympics, and complete abolition of spectators at events, there is quite literally no benefit to the people of Japan for hosting the Olympics - it may as well have been hosted on the moon.
From a PR and reputation point of view, it has led to even more global media scrutiny to the deteriorating situation in Japan, with the government failing to contain the virus due to lax lockdown rules, low vaccination rates, and their disastrous GoToEat/Travel campaigns. Then there is the >80% of the population who are against the Olympics, including large corporate sponsors and the doctors union of Japan (https://lnkd.in/gqKCHWN). Not to mention the reported 10,000 local volunteers who have withdrawn.
There will be no influx of tourists (perhaps to the relief of many Japanese) and virtually no revenue generated from the Games that goes back to Japan. The IOC is funded via 73% from broadcasting and a further 18% from sponsorship, which is why they so desperately want the Games to be held at all costs.
Make no mistake: it is the IOC calling the shots. Japan has been reduced to being held hostage on its own soil - a mere puppet on strings flapping in the breeze"
- wtf dinner party analogy that goes nowhere. linkedin is a mad auld place, do they tailor all the articles to the aspirations of their users?kingsteven
- at least tie it all up with the IOC doing a turd in the Ramen or sthg.kingsteven
- i_monk-5
- nb5
- better.fixedArchitectofFate
- good luck with fixing it for 2023Krassy
- whatthefunk0
- huh?ArchitectofFate
- Year one after the pandemic?OBBTKN
- Awkwardwebazoot
- 2021omahadesigns
- 2020 NEChimp
- 202 ONEhelloeatbreathedrive
- NBC's Olympics coverage logo but not officially by the Japanese organizing committee me thinks...whatthefunk
- darkslateblue-8
i would do this
1 red circle centered above gold circle
below it 3 circles silver gold bronze
text tokyo olympics (not year #)
olympics logo below text
- jerk2
- Dillinger-5
Free Iodine tablets
- sephil-2
So what QBNers think about the remaining 4 candidates?
Probably not a victory for crowdsourcing?details: https://tokyo2020.jp/en/games/em…
- Not again.
http://www.qbn.com/t…ORAZAL - Get in touch with darkslateblue. I'm sure he'll have a lot to say about it.ORAZAL
- http://myfirstbookof…ORAZAL
- Not loving any of them but I think a is the most unique and has the potential to do great things in an overarching brand system_niko
- oh dear... tho to be fair they're about the usual standard of olympic logos
especial lols at chunky athlete (c)hans_glib - The "C" looks like a man jugglingsephil
- At a severe push, probably D - mainly because it isn't another fucking half-assed brush stroke motif.face_melter
- C looks like a giant baby being tickled.face_melter
- D is quite nice.monospaced
- Not again.
- teh0
- At least they had the decency to cover the anus...face_melter
- Why is their porn always so borderline rapey?monospaced
- ^ racist2002
- not in the slightestmonospaced
- ArchitectofFate1
It's gonna' suck. bigtime. seriously 2 weeks...
Great article on the subject
https://medium.com/@ianlynam/why…
- docpoz0
- So it will have your name in it?youngdesigner
- it's a watermark, plz ignoredocpoz
- couldn't even make the 'O' round eh?lambsy
- haha... no fucks givendocpoz
- BrokenHD0
http://www.tokyo2020.jp/en/emble…
https://twitter.com/Tokyo2020/st…
Amidst plagiarism accusations of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics logo, the organizers have taken to the public for a new design. While designer Kenjiro Sano refuted claims of the art copying the Belgian Théâtre de Liège, the committee has nonetheless decided to replace the controversial logo. Announcing the news via Twitter, the contest depicts democratization in a world that’s all-embracing of the new shared economy. While individuals must be a Japanese national or foreign national with the right of residence in Japan, group submissions require just one person to meet the nationality requirements. The public competition begins November 24 and ends December 7, 2015, with the winner being announced Spring 2016. For full details, visit the official Tokyo 2020 website.
- Mmm, crowdsourcing.BrokenHD
- This will end well. Commence Operation: Cock and Balls Flood in 3... 2... 1...face_melter
- LOL @ an organization concerned with plagiarism turning to crowdsourcing.monNom
- detritus0
Well I never.
http://www.theguardian.com/world…
I suppose the decision's understandable given how protective The Olympic Cartel is of their branding, but I really don't think this should ever have stood accused of being a rip off, it's just far too generic a form.
Oh well, I suppose it gave some otherwise unknown Belgian a few days of fame. Nice one?
- haha no fucking way.
The Belgian should be ashamed of himself really...set - yep, really sad state of affairs... shame on him indeed.kingsteven
- I'd love someone to find something similar to the Belgian one that pre-dated it then sue him.HAYZ1LLLA
- that'd be goldset
- haha no fucking way.
- NeverEver-1
what a load of bollocks this rip shit is
as if no designer hasn't done a letterform like that in their life. I can name about 10 fonts straight up that have that font style, did Tokyo rip them as well.If i'm being honest i like the logo although the bottom right descender doesn't make sense to me.
Maybe it's because i haven't seen the whole rationale, but i feel like if it's called Tokyo 2020, they could have lost the bottom right descender.
- i_monk1
It was garbage, plagiarized or not.
- docpoz-2
OK. I'm done here.
- futuremongolian1
- beijing and sydney are ok.iCanHazQBN
- problem with Tokyo logo is they're playing with the first letter of the word (T). Why? Why is designing around the first letter of a word a "thing"?iCanHazQBN
- There's so much humanity and inspiration to design with in an Olympics logo, and all they can do is design a "T"?? So uncreative and lazy.iCanHazQBN
- There may be a meaning in the "T" (I don't know), but this logo is for the general worldwide public. They don't care about hidden meanings...iCanHazQBN
- ... They just want to be inspired and feel some sort of human spirit in the logo. The Tokyo logo fails in every sense.iCanHazQBN
- still not as bad as Sochi. Which is an URL.futuremongolian
- lol @ Sydney being okay - crock of shit.fadein11
- London by far the best out of all that generic shit.fadein11
- London is still eligible. It became trendy to like that logo. It was fun in applications, but standing alone it's still very confusing.iCanHazQBN
- London Epic Failutopian
- Vancouver speaks of the place, London of the time.. The others are cryptic as shit.zarkonite
- does sochi even count as a logo if can be done in ms word?zarkonite
- Sydney is one of the worst.marychain
- London, Beijing, Vancouver and Salt Lake are all perfectly fine you tossermarychain
- it's the first letter of T-okyo... are you all retarded? though this graphic design exploration sucks, it's as deep and meaningful as any other.doesnotexist
- No shit it's the first letter. So what? it's the ultimate form of laziness just grabbing the first letter of a client and designing around it.iCanHazQBN
- So what if it's starts with a T? Does a T represent Tokyo as a country? Does it represent the human/athletic spirit of the Olympics?iCanHazQBN
- Sydney is shit. It was 10 years out of date at the time. All that painterly generic positive Wolff Ollins shit is and always was shit.MrT
- Ummm. Where is https://en.wikipedia…HAYZ1LLLA
- set0
5 minutes in illustrator
- you sound like a non-designer :)fadein11
- that's being kindformed
- what a fucking stupid thing to say, setpressplay
- Amateursset
- jesus, set, you are so dumb! fucking christ.doesnotexist
- it probably took 6 minutesdoesnotexist
- call the fucking waaambulanceset
- Haha. Sets trolling powers are growing by the day. Who's he had a fight with today?HAYZ1LLLA