If you thought the London 2012 Olympic logo was terrible…
…check out the ideas for mascots
The Olympics are busy gathering attention for appalling pollution, dismal human rights records and ridiculous food bans, so it’s easy to lose focus on the fact that we will be hosting the event in 2012. But the genii at the BBC have stuck the Olympiad right back into the national consciousness by asking folks to submit their own ideas for Olympic mascots.
The very best entries have been published by the BBC, and most are at about the same standard as the God-awful Lisa-Simpson-performing-a-sex-act official logo. Above, for example, is the imaginatively-titled ‘Sock’ by Terry Scott.
‘Mr Belvedere’ is meant to be a Dickensian athlete, but he looks more like a man you wouldn’t like to see in the park late at night
See more mascots after the jump…
Apparently, one artist believed the Olympics would be best embodied by an overtly homosexual manga cartoon
Katy Grierson has submitted pictures of her cats, probably because she likes cats
See the rest of the entries here
[Discovered on Deadspin]
1 response so far
6000 // July 2, 2008 at 1:20 pm
Makes you proud to be British, doesn’t it?
God help us if the Germans get wind of this. We’ll never live it down.
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