2020 Japan Olympics

[Yokohammer]

Newsweek!

From the quote I just assumed it was The Onion. Driverless cars criss-crossing the city ... artificial meteor showers ... and all by 2020. That's only four years away. Rotsa ruck.

[Samurai_Jerk]

Rotsa ruck.

That's lacist!

[Yokohammer]

Rotsa ruck.

That's lacist!

[wagyl]

I fail to see any of this fabled excitement.

I wonder where they will install the Olympic flame on the hydrogen powered transport vehicles.

I'm much more excited about not being permitted to retweet tweets by athletes, or to tweet words such as "Tokyo," "2020," "Bronze" or "Summer," or to tweet to congratulate an athlete for their performance.

[Samurai_Jerk]

I fail to see any of this fabled excitement.

A lot of the older guys (50+) I drink with in shitamachi were pretty excited about it when Tokyo won and they're still wearing their Tokyo 2020 lapel pins.

[Takechanpoo]

Nikken Sekkei received an order to repair Camp Nou in Barcelona

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http://www.elperiodico.cat/ca/noticias/ ... ou-4959528
https://www.facebook.com/fcbarcelona/ph ... 05/?type=3

[Russell]

Architect Dame Zaha Hadid dies aged 65 after heart attack

[Taro Toporific]

Architect Dame Zaha Hadid dies aged 65 after heart attack

At first I thought this was an April Fool's in poor taste.

... died after a heart attack. She was 65.
She contracted bronchitis while in Miami earlier this week and died in hospital this morning, her company said.

A hospital death? Nah. Obviously, it was a Yakuza hit.

[kurogane]

I fail to see any of this fabled excitement.

A lot of the older guys (50+) I drink with in shitamachi were pretty excited about it when Tokyo won and they're still wearing their Tokyo 2020 lapel pins.

I see far less opposition to it than in Vancouver, esp. the principled and or financial opposition, and at least the same level of cheerleader excitement, pride and anticipation. Which makes sense: they're Japanese, and Japanese like that stuff.

Shocking, or at least sad about the toilet bowl stadium designer dame. 65 is not young, but it isn't ancient. RIP. Rather convenient, as Taro said, but I will wait for word from Benjamin Fulford before forming any conclusions.

[matsuki]

I fail to see any of this fabled excitement.

A lot of the older guys (50+) I drink with in shitamachi were pretty excited about it when Tokyo won and they're still wearing their Tokyo 2020 lapel pins.

I see far less opposition to it than in Vancouver, esp. the principled and or financial opposition, and at least the same level of cheerleader excitement, pride and anticipation. Which makes sense: they're Japanese, and Japanese like that stuff.

The new commercials they're running have reached an all time pointless level. Be the change! I like Lotte's slogan better...

[Taro Toporific]

Tokyo 2020 Olympic logo dropped amid plagiarism claim
The Japan Times | Sept. 1, 2015

Somebody is getting paid millions for this.

Japan unveils final four candidates for the Tokyo 2020 Olympicslogo
japantimes.co.jp 2016/04/08

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[Takechanpoo]

as for plan D, as always a specific country would not hold the kimchee-smelling tongue if its accepted.
thus i will vote for plan D.

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※キーワード：スポーツの力、日本らしさ・東京らしさ、世界の平和、自己ベスト・一生懸命、一体感・インクルージョン、革新性と未来志向、復興・立ち上がる力
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https://tokyo2020.jp/en/games/emblem/evaluation/

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

B is a rip-off of the Firefox logo.

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

as for plan D, as always a specific country would not hold the kimchee-smelling tongue if its accepted.
thus i will vote for plan D.

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下記の宛先に郵送ください。
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宛名：「東京2020大会エンブレム　ご意見」係
記入する項目：
1. 評価する作品の記号（A～Dのいずれか）
2. 7つのキーワードのうち強く印象を受けるもの（複数可）
※キーワード：スポーツの力、日本らしさ・東京らしさ、世界の平和、自己ベスト・一生懸命、一体感・インクルージョン、革新性と未来志向、復興・立ち上がる力
3. この作品から受ける印象（150字以内）

https://tokyo2020.jp/en/games/emblem/evaluation/

If the logo has to refer to how typically Japanese or Tokyo it is, C is a winner all the way...the logo is giving the funny rainbow a kancho.

[Coligny]

Let's go for something better at embodying the O-limp-ics and japan...

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[legion]

Somebody is getting paid millions for this.

The original fee for the design was not very high, more a token payment. The prestige was what mattered.

Don't know about the fee for the new designs, however I do know a lot of professional designers and none of them would go close to this job.

[Grumpy Gramps]

:keyboardcoffee: Somebody is getting paid millions for this.

I find those cute. Reminds me strongly of one of my "How to beginner CorelDraw" books from the 1990ies. So it looks like Japan is slowly catching up with current times and less stuck in the 1960ies?

[Wage Slave]

as for plan D, as always a specific country would not hold the kimchee-smelling tongue if its accepted.
thus i will vote for plan D.

Thank you for providing a perfect example of why racism works against everyone's best interests. Including the best interests of the racist. It's idiotic to vote for an inferior design because you think it will annoy someone else. It's YOUR logo not Korea's, choose the one you think is the best you twat.

None are very impressive at all - but then look at London's logo - I'm not criticising too much. A is just appalling, B looks derivative, Variations on C are commonly seen around here and are also derivative. Was it Matisse who did it right? Anyway, that figure isn't right at all. D is well gay.

The Cadillac (aka the best of a bad bunch) IMO is B.

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

None are very impressive at all - but then look at London's logo

London used goatse (and Lisa Simpson giving head)

[Takechanpoo]

huh? it cannot be racism. i just wanna show their anti-japan obsession to the whole world.
and everyone wont remember anywhat logo is selected as soon as the competition finishes.

[Coligny]

:keyboardcoffee: Somebody is getting paid millions for this.

I find those cute. Reminds me strongly of one of my "How to beginner CorelDraw" books from the 1990ies. So it looks like Japan is slowly catching up with current times and less stuck in the 1960ies?

I would have said Adobe Illustrator...

A and D for how to automate repetitive tasks with macros...

B for how to reuse shapes and patterns

C for freehand drawing under duress or alcohol induced coma.

[matsuki]

How has some sort of Olympic colored sakura design not been proposed? You know the locals would eat that shit up and it would look a million times better than anything I've seen yet. (and not be subject to the usual plagiarism)

[Russell]

I find them all in bad taste, and would rather back Coligny's logo...

[matsuki]

I find them all in bad taste, and would rather back Coligny's logo...

Well....

[Samurai_Jerk]

I find them all in bad taste, and would rather back Coligny's logo...

Are you saying you prefer the good taste of cock?

[Coligny]

I find them all in bad taste, and would rather back Coligny's logo...

Are you saying you prefer the good taste of cock?

No, I think he just said he'd take it in the back...

[Russell]

I find them all in bad taste, and would rather back Coligny's logo...

Are you saying you prefer the good taste of cock?

No, I think he just said he'd take it in the back...

What is it with you guys?

If I would've expressed my appreciation for the official logo A, would you also have suggested me to stick it up my ass?!?

[Coligny]

What is it with you guys?

We wuz dropped on the head as babies...

a plenty lot...

"I'll always be there if you fall..."

The Floor

[Russell]

Japan’s open Olympic logo selection process wins disapproval from designers

Professional designers are sneering at the four short-listed logos for the 2020 Olympics, saying soliciting proposals from the public resulted in designs of low artistic quality.

The designs were chosen from almost 15,000 submitted in an open competition after a logo by Kenjiro Sano was pulled in September amid accusations of plagiarism.

The Tokyo 2020 Emblems Selection Committee is now accepting votes in favor of one of the four designs online or on a postcard until Sunday. The team will then submit its selection to the Tokyo 2020 board on April 25.

An online survey by The Japan Times found that readers favor Design B, closely followed by Design D. The two others lagged far behind in the poll, conducted over several days to Wednesday.

Asking ordinary people for their ideas rankles with some professionals.

“Public submission seems more fair than a designer or agency picked by an elite, but the overall result will probably lack quality,” said Benjamin Thomas of Tokyo-based design studio Bento Graphics. Thomas added, the four short-listed proposals fail to “immediately visually explain their concept.”

Tokyo-based designer Ian Lynam of Ian Lynam Design said the four pairs of logos are “unprofessional in terms of structure, form and execution. They are more akin to cartoons or caricatures of logos than actual logos.” He said the committee should have hired a design studio.

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Agree with the opinions about the amateur designs, but as for the more professional designers, we know how that worked out...

[Coligny]

It's cute when professionnals feels threatened like this...

Just because they made it into a science doesn't mean that it need to be one...