2020 Japan Olympics

[matsuki]

The two sets with the most votes aren't my cup o tea but are far from as terrible as being described.

[Yokohammer]

Professional designers appointing themselves as ultimate arbiters of artistic quality.

Now that's a laugh.

I smell sour grapes.

[Samurai_Jerk]

Seriously. How many of you have ever seen an Olympic logs that's wowed you? I know I haven't.

[matsuki]

Seriously. How many of you have ever seen an Olympic logs that's wowed you? I know I haven't.

Exactly...which is why that article is pretty pompous.

[Grumpy Gramps]

I guess, this is the same or similar scene of "creatives" as those who make commercials and web banners. While what they create is so wonderfully beautiful that people go to great lengths with adblockers and stuff and even pay money in apps for not to have to see/endure the ads, the "creatives" don't put any effort in getting their workmanship up to speed, but rather pay lawyers to sue or suborn web-masters to start a war against their users in order to shove the ads down their throats.

No need at all to listen to these people's "qualified opinion"

[matsuki]

Grumpy - I think they're just butthurt their designs weren't chosen? I do a ton of graphic design and while I agree they are not the best that could be put up....why were there no better "professional" submissions?

[Grumpy Gramps]

Yeah, it was more like a rant...

But then, being half blind and having not much sense of visual beauty, I just might be able to join their ranks and rise. "In the land of the blind" and all that jazz

[legion]

I guess, this is the same or similar scene of "creatives" as those who make commercials and web banners. While what they create is so wonderfully beautiful that people go to great lengths with adblockers and stuff and even pay money in apps for not to have to see/endure the ads, the "creatives" don't put any effort in getting their workmanship up to speed, but rather pay lawyers to sue or suborn web-masters to start a war against their users in order to shove the ads down their throats.

No need at all to listen to these people's "qualified opinion"

Creative is a word which has been overused to the point where it has become devoid of meaning.

The mark of a good ad is that it is memorable, so we remember ads which were good, and forget the dross. Hence we always feel advertising is getting worse because we have a selective memory of past work.

It isn't the "creatives" lawyering up, it's the media companies. Media companies are pissed because they cannot function without advertising revenue, and clients won't spend money if they are not getting eyeballs.

[Samurai_Jerk]

This is perfect.

Design World Outraged By Frond Font Affront

Last week the U.S. Navy undertook a rescue mission, recovering three men who had been stranded on a desert island. The unlucky trio had set sail from Pulap, an atoll in the Federated States of Micronesia, and their boat was reportedly capsized by a large wave. The men swam overnight until they miraculously reached Fanadik, a deserted island. After spelling out "HELP" in the sand using palm fronds, they managed to be seen by a Navy spotter plane, and the men were subsequently rescued.

But not everyone is happy. "When I saw the image, I was outraged," said [REDACTED], a Professor of Graphic Design & Typology at [REDACTED]. "Look at the font—it looks like some kind of bastardized Verdana. It's horrific. This just goes to show you how poor the state of global design education is. The way that they have rendered the letters is disrespectful to our profession and completely dismissive of the great strides typology has made.

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[Coligny]

I knew a designer gurl like that long ago...

But at least real japs designer can come up with these gems...

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The link between the Cross of Lorraine / 7th crusade and tuberculosis is quite sketchy... But whatev'


Eh eh eh...

1902...

It was our idea...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_of_ ... #New_World

(Coligny now provided with instant self rebuttal...)
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[Taro Toporific]

WE HAVE A WIENER!

tokyo2020.jp/en/
Inspired by a traditional motif, “Harmonized chequered emblems” are selected as the emblems of the Tokyo 2020 Games!

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[dimwit]

Well, I can understand the appropriateness of the Paralympic emblem -it's a dribble bid for spastics.

And here is where it was stolen from.

[Grumpy Gramps]

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[matsuki]

Holy shit, that was by far the worst of the finalists....I guess the most embarrassing Olympics need and appropriately embarrassing logo...at least until whoever they copied the design from comes forward.

[legion]

design by committee strikes again

[Takechanpoo]

Tokoros one is too simple and tasteless at a first glance. but taking a carefully looking at, you will find its a well elaborated thought‐out design. i like it. the others are seems-indeed-authentic designs for olympic but that kind of ones are surfeited fair enough.
and 'typically japan' for us japanese is not the same with and also need not to be with 'typically japan' which you damn non-japanese regard as.

And here is where it was stolen from.

you are brain damaged, or your piled personal grudges to japanese distorted your thought? i hope not.

[Taro Toporific]

Tokoros one is too simple and tasteless at a first glance. but taking a carefully looking at, you will find its a well elaborated thought‐out design. i like it. the others are seems-indeed-authentic designs for olympic but that kind of ones are surfeited fair enough.
and 'typically japan' for us japanese is not the same with and also need not to be with 'typically japan' which you damn non-japanese regard as...

The Japanese on 2ch are saying...

The new emblem of the Tokyo Olympics is completely funeral looking.
これが新エンブレムの東京五輪会場の様子　完全に葬式

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http://blog.livedoor.jp/dqnplus/archives/1880213.html

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[dimwit]

Tokoros one is too simple and tasteless at a first glance. but taking a carefully looking at, you will find its a well elaborated thought‐out design. i like it. the others are seems-indeed-authentic designs for olympic but that kind of ones are surfeited fair enough.
and 'typically japan' for us japanese is not the same with and also need not to be with 'typically japan' which you damn non-japanese regard as.

And here is where it was stolen from.

you are brain damaged, or your piled personal grudges to japanese distorted your thought? i hope not.

With the exception of you, almost all Japanese I have talked to agree with my sentiments.

[kurogane]

Well, I can understand the appropriateness of the Paralympic emblem -it's a dribble bid for spastics.

Shows how much you know.............spastics is Special Olympians not Paralympians. Your argument doesn't have a leg to stand on.



What fucking horrid amateurish crap, and what a shame and a waste this is all turning into. It's getting to the point where they need to start hoping the Brazilian Games run true to national form so that the Tokyo Games will look well organised and executed in comparison. And that is a pretty damning comment on the state of the Olympics. It might be funny to organise a vocal boycott.

This is perfect.

Design World Outraged By Frond Font Affront

Great find, hilarious stuff. That is well done.

[Coligny]

tokyolympus.jpg

Daaaad !?

[matsuki]

Tokoros one is too simple and tasteless at a first glance. but taking a carefully looking at, you will find its a well elaborated thought‐out design. i like it. the others are seems-indeed-authentic designs for olympic but that kind of ones are surfeited fair enough.
and 'typically japan' for us japanese is not the same with and also need not to be with 'typically japan' which you damn non-japanese regard as...

The Japanese on 2ch are saying...

The new emblem of the Tokyo Olympics is completely funeral looking.
これが新エンブレムの東京五輪会場の様子　完全に葬式

funeral-hall.jpg

http://blog.livedoor.jp/dqnplus/archives/1880213.html

funeral-wreath.jpg

The olympics might as well be Japan's funeral...

[Takechanpoo]

the masses are temporarily fickle and ad hoc but generally fair in the end.
the emblem will be appreciated high in later years.

[dimwit]

the masses are temporarily fickle and ad hoc but generally fair in the end.
the emblem will be appreciated high in later years.

Come on! Can you honesty remeber the London Olympic logo? Logos are things that are and perhaps should be forgetable.

How about this one?

[matsuki]

the masses are temporarily fickle and ad hoc but generally fair in the end.
the emblem will be appreciated high in later years.

...when Japan is dead and cremated?

[Samurai_Jerk]

matsuki,

For someone who has cast in his lot with Japan you seem to get an awful lot of joy from her missteps and slow decline.

[kurogane]

From what I have heard that's their fault too: it's the racism, or the discrimination..........or the not blindly adoring white people simply for their skin tone and inherent superiority. I forget which. I'll ask next time I'm in Kyoto at the Kolonial Klub Kafe.

[Coligny]

matsuki,

For someone who has cast in his lot with Japan you seem to get an awful lot of joy from her missteps and slow decline.

Hey... waiting for that shithole to turn into a glass parking lot after a huge fireball is my shtick... back of Pocahontas...

[matsuki]

matsuki,

For someone who has cast in his lot with Japan you seem to get an awful lot of joy from her missteps and slow decline.

Honestly, I'd much rather there not be missteps or decline...and that's not joy, it's frustration.

[Samurai_Jerk]

back of Pocahontas...

You gonna take him from behind???

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

back of Pocahontas...

You gonna take him from behind???

He's French. He's used to seeing men's backs.