La Vida Logo
If you live in the UK, you can't have failed to notice the almighty kerfuffle over our logo for the 2012 Olympics, which was unveiled on Monday.
As someone pointed out to me yesterday, it looks like Lisa Simpson giving a blow job. Which is appropriate, given that the design totally sucks balls.
The "big reveal" of the £400,000 design has sent Daily Mail readers into a furious tizz of outrage, and made everyone else go "oh". The BBC decided to have a little fun and ran a competition for people to design an alternative. It which produced some surprisingly good results...
...And one which was based on a notorious piece of internet filth.
But the last word goes to cool-as-a-lollipop design website b3ta, who had the following take on the whole sorry affair:
As someone pointed out to me yesterday, it looks like Lisa Simpson giving a blow job. Which is appropriate, given that the design totally sucks balls.
The "big reveal" of the £400,000 design has sent Daily Mail readers into a furious tizz of outrage, and made everyone else go "oh". The BBC decided to have a little fun and ran a competition for people to design an alternative. It which produced some surprisingly good results...
...And one which was based on a notorious piece of internet filth.
But the last word goes to cool-as-a-lollipop design website b3ta, who had the following take on the whole sorry affair: