GermWorks - Web Design & Life

This has been all over the news and raising many bad reviews and caused quite a stir when the animation had to be pulled when it was realised that it can cause cause epileptic seizures.

It also has been pulled apart by many graphic and other designers and through it all I have not heard one good review about it. I do not know the exact figure this package cost but I have heard that it was around $700, 000. If this is right, it was to costly and the business who designed it must be laughing their way to the bank.

Personally the thing that gets me is that the zero, looks like the simplified version of Australia. The only thing that is missing is Tasmania but then again the tilted square between the 1 and 2 could be it.

Personally as a design, it looks ok but for a big event like the Olympics it sucks. The reason why they designed it with the graffiti look was to try and get young people interested in the games. That is a good idea but a jazzed up logo will only help the same way a band aide does over a gapping wound.

Some Articles:
NDTV - 2012 Olympics logo under fire
Scotsman.com News - London unveils its 2012 Olympics logo
If you have any others, please add as well as your opinions..

UPDATE - 20/06/2007
Sitepoint and Trainingcamp had a competition about redesigning the logo. Read about the competition hear
In reading the comments it seems that the shapes are suppose to represent the continents of the World.

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