More Wenlock misery
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beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
They're one of the few things I quite like about the Olympic designs, quite cute, have a story to them etc.Who the fuck thought those weird cyclops things would make cute mascots?
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
It must be good fun to be in those suits 
I did the sound for the UK Badminton championships at the NIA earlier this year, at one point they needed a crew member to put on their new mascot costume and run around the arena and lark about in front of 8000 people, EVERYONE wanted to do it
I did the sound for the UK Badminton championships at the NIA earlier this year, at one point they needed a crew member to put on their new mascot costume and run around the arena and lark about in front of 8000 people, EVERYONE wanted to do it 
souljacker
innit
I do feel for the ones that have to skip about holding a gold baby and try to give it to the winners on the bloody finishing line.
But this is nice;
Usain Bolt is fucking brilliant isn't he? He was high fiving and fist bumping all the volunteers last night BEFORE the race.
5t3IIa
Registered User
What is the story behind them?
I guess I could google but I wouldnt understand the social class element then.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
i thought this was going to be a thread about the wenlock arms but what i couldn't understand was what it was doing in the olympicks forum.
Mandeville, pictured left, looks like he's had a nasty accident
Isnt Mandeville the Paraolympics mascot? Thats pretty dark.
5t3IIa
Registered User
Wenlock is the name of the (British) chap who revived the Games in eighteen-dickety-three and Mandeville is, I think, for Stoke Mandeville hospital
I thought the branding was crap across the board tbh
Nah, it all works, to my eye anyway. Design is obv very subjective though.
I like the angular stuff they've echoed across all their materials/signage/logo/typeface etc. Also like the way the BBC have picked up on it with their studio design.
gentlegreen
I hummus, therefore I am ...
So that's what those weird things are, I assumed they were something to do with Japanese animation ...
Cid
Proper break this time
Wenlock is the name of the (British) chap who revived the Games in eighteen-dickety-three and Mandeville is, I think, for Stoke Mandeville hospital
Much Wenlock is the town they were held in actually... Stoke Mandeville hospital organised an event for injured WWII vets which inspired the paralympics.
Cid
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It's fucking woeful. Some of the ways people have played off it are fine, but the base font and logo are utterly shameful. Especially given that the UK has some exceptional graphic/type designers.
QueenOfGoths
Fuck you Dave!
Kids - and the Russian Olympic Rowing team who were hoovering them up in Maidenhead Sainsbury's last Sunday morning - love them!!
And I have to admit I think the big ones around town dressed as Beefeaters and Post boxes and stuff are great
And I have to admit I think the big ones around town dressed as Beefeaters and Post boxes and stuff are great
Cid
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Well they're pretty much the only ones then.
But branding isnt always about pretty though no?
I'm thinking about the numbers in particular, they are weird and look like they have been formed out of strips of gaffa tape but forever more they will be inescapably linked to london 2012. I think they are quite powerful branding if not pretty or impressive.
El Sueno
Dabbler
Is it you and your fellow colleagues opinion that the blow-job logo is a big inside joke and in no way any kind of coincidence? I mean, putting that image into the public conscious for the biggest event in the whole world is pretty daring.
Onket
Je suis [CONTENT REMOVED]
Don't you 'actually' me, sunshine
Wouldn't have had to if you'd been correct.
