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The horror, the horror, the horror

2 years ago I wrote a post about the official logo for the 2012 London Olympics - "the horror, the horror". Now the official Olympic mascots have been unveiled and I can't improve on Stephen Bayley's verdict:


What is it about these Games which seems to drive the organisers into the embrace of this kind of patronising, cretinous infantilism? Why can’t we have something that makes us sing with pride, instead of these appalling computerised Smurfs for the iPhone generation?

Comments (1)

Mick Stockinger:

This is no doubt the result of modern marketing dogma wherein highly educated idiots scientifically design an appealing product that in reality appeals to no one.

The cyclops thing freaks me out.

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