vancouver 2010 logo
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- vburo0
sorry, my response was for k77..
- k770
very true.
but the pretention should be a leadoff to live up to it.
vburo
(Apr 25 05, 10:58)lol
- vburo0
why is that lol?
- mrsparkle0
Rand said (more or less), and i wholeheartedly agreed in the end, that graphic design's greater purpose is to make people think a lil more, to spark a bit of an intellectual engine inside someones mind. - vburo
I agree with this statement very much. I am a big proponent of pushing design forward and making the public become a little more critical.
At the same time, we are designing for an audience, we can't go way over the average person's head.
There has to be a happy medium of dishing out tiny, consumable, bite sized, knowledge nuggets, that will make people think a little bit more and prepare them for the next nugget.
Maybe this logo will make people think about the past, or different cultures. Personally I don't think this logo pushes anything. It's safe.
I liken this how excited that an average non-designer type is when they see the arrow in the negative space of the FedEx logo. It teaches them to look closer, and pay more attention to the next possible point of interest.
- ********0
fuck all of you armchair design critics, i wanna know what the native elders think about the mark. i wonder if anybody has asked them...
- clerk0
jeez, pretty weak logo there...
- imnotnate0
solid, what you say unfortunately has a fair bit of truth to it. but acknowledging our history, however dark it may be in some parts, raises awareness for future generations. rather than sweeping it under the rug, i think it's quite beautiful that we embrace native culture nowadays - it shows we've grown up a little bit as a country , and shows those Canadian values - like acceptance, multiculturalism, etc etc.
all in all, i think the concept behind this logo is sweet.
the execution just sucks. :p
- snuggles0
If anyone asked me to describe Canada and what it was that I felt was truly depictive of us, i think I would be looking at a blank canvas...
We have loads of history, which I DO think most Canadians are aware of, but if I'm just thinking about what's current and especially what's going on with indigineous people now, I would leave the canvas blank...
Canada has championed many environmental issues and have produced some very forward thinking media-types like Mau, Mcluhan and Adbusters magazine. But as a people we have no strong identity...
We are never perceived or associated with many of these things, if anything we're associated with good weed, hot chicks and as a whole 'peace-loving' people.
The rest of the world really doesn't care about us, because we are not in the business of self-promotion, which is a problem..
While in Europe for 34 days, the only thing I saw on the news concerning Canada was when we bought the busted subs from the brits and we were stranded at sea...which leaves a real good impression to outsiders of Canadians...
sorry I'd love to contribute more to this thread as it is near and dear to me, and this post probably makes little sense, but I've got loads to do...
- vburo0
i hear ya, sparkle.
on the subject of the fedex logo, yeah i am a great fan of hidden ideas/extra's as long as they are not in the way, or even better, as longas they support the overall concept..
btw:
http://www.areaofdesign.com/spot…
wtf?
- k770
vburo, it just made me laugh. i think it was the "live it up" part.
*puts on john legend
- vburo0
oh hahaha..
- mrsparkle0
wtf indeed. all these giant corps meging there logos is such a laugh to me, those logo's ( FedEx and ATT cingular) are some of the siliest disjointed things that I've ever seen.
i think the Vancouver logo's concept is on the right track, i'm very glad that there's none of that sea to sky concept in there. I just wish the logo could have been taken a little further and refined.
- mrsparkle0
fuck all of you armchair design critics, i wanna know what the native elders think about the mark. i wonder if anybody has asked them...
nick
(Apr 25 05, 11:05)I'm going to do it, and I'll get back to this thread on the findings.
- Xrtions0
very curious to hear what you find out.
- snuggles0
try to find an elder who's not high on hairspray...
j/k....:P
- NegativeSpace0
Great post earlier Greg about the usage of the native symbol. I was thinking about that too. It seems Canada in general can either be the first ones to neglect native culture, but when we need some sort of heritage or identity we are the first ones to embrace it.
Kinda weird.
- vburo0
fuck all of you armchair design critics, i wanna know what the native elders think about the mark. i wonder if anybody has asked them...
nick
(Apr 25 05, 11:05)I'm going to do it, and I'll get back to this thread on the findings.
mrsparkle
(Apr 25 05, 11:33)are you serious?
damn you should do that ''officially'', get some media to see the results. it might be quite surprising..
- imnotnate0
snuggles, yer joke ain't funny.
greg, lookin' forward to hearin' what they say! do you know some elders or something?
- Xrtions0
mrsparkle is lookin into it, unless his name is greg too, then my bad for the miscommunication.
- mrsparkle0
it'll be interesting, for sure.
snuggles, i know you mean nothing by that comment but you've got to keep your jokes in check. Even while joking, comments like that perpetuate pre-concieved notions that some people may have. I am not native but you just don't know how it affects them.
I don't want to make this thread about this subject, so please carry on as if this comment never happened...