Be A Design Cast 36 : London (2012) Calling
by Nate Voss, (14 comments)
Don’t give people seizures! Bad design breaks the world and Europe’s grasp on cutting-edge cool comes to a halt more abrupt than Princess Diana. We cover the shame of of the London 2012 logo. After we wipe our hands clean of that mess, Donovan, Steve and I dig into some listener questions that include how to handle “celeb” designers. Also, a new feature comes to the show: The 5-Minute Review. Basically it works like this: you send us a link to your website (preferably student work) and we will give you tough love in return. Good times!
UPDATE: To fix this little “half-a-show” bug we’re experiencing, we have uploaded BADCast 36”B”, a new file that will hopefully clear out whatever is wrong with the old one. Let us know if this doesn’t work, and thanks for letting us know in the first place!
Next week: The Return of Robert Brunner to the Be A Design Cast!
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Comments (14)
Adam Duquette said:
I think there is an issue with the BADcast. Only half of it downloads from the post above. I have not seen it in iTunes yet.
Will we ever get to hear Steve finish his praise of Joe Duffy?
Posted on June 20, 2007
ZacH said:
What is the taboo type face?!?! Does it default to papyrus or comic sans or in spite of Donovan is it Rosewood. My vote is for Zapfino.
Posted on June 21, 2007
Bill Kerr said:
yeah guys… steve g. starts to praise duffy and then POOF! gone.
Posted on June 21, 2007
Nate Voss said:
This… is a new one on me. Especially since it is downloading and playing fine for me. I’ll make a sparkling new files tonight and post it for you guys, just to make sure we clean out whatever’s causing this strange phenomenon.
Posted on June 21, 2007
Bill Kerr said:
Hey Nate, I was using the download link on my work machine before, and now i just tried it via iTunes subscription on my own machine and had the same problem.
The first half of the podcast was great, though.
I just wanted to tell you all to keep up the great work. More and more people that I know are getting turned on to your podcast all the time, and each one gets progressively better than those before it. It feels like a present every time i see one posted.
Bravo!
Posted on June 21, 2007
Jeremy said:
I think the Chicago 2016 logo was denied because it was a ‘bid’ logo for the olympics. Once a city has been named as the host for the olympics they can design the logo using the torch, rings, etc. But as a ‘bidding’ city, your logo cannot use those elements……i think
Posted on June 21, 2007
ZacH said:
Here is a link to the Los Angeles Olympic Bid information with a photo of their bid logo. If one would judge the bid campaign by the logo, to me it seemed like LA didn’t want to win.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LosAngeles2016OlympicBid
Posted on June 21, 2007
ZacH said:
Let me try that again:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LosAngeles2016Olympicbid
Posted on June 21, 2007
ZacH said:
Well for some reason the underscores don’t care over when I post the comment. So if interested just go to wikipedia.com and search Los Angeles 2016 Olympic bid.
Posted on June 21, 2007
adam said:
It seems to be working fine now, Nate. Thanks!
Posted on June 22, 2007
Steve G. said:
Hey guys great podcast this go round. Really good topic and to Nate… Awesome linkage to all of the killer Olympic iconography from past years. Mexico 68 and Atlanta 2000 are still amongst my faves but the bid logo for Chicago has won me over and is very good work. Very on point and pertinient to the convo at hand.
Posted on June 22, 2007
Respiro Media said:
I am wondering if there’s a way for this logo to be changed?…
Posted on June 29, 2007
Alex said:
When I saw the London 2012 Olympic Logo I thought it was a joke! Just go to the website and have a look. Can you read the word “London”? Difficult. Can you identify those squares as “2012”? I couldn’t. Does it at least look nice? I don’t think so. Colors? So what do we see actually? Undecipherable cyan squares, small unreadable letters which don’t seem to be connected through any graphic element on a magenta background. The only element that seems readable is the Olympic circles, but it is a default element designed by somebody else. And they are actually nice CIRCLES placed among ugly SQUARES, which makes the whole mixture even more impossible. I don’t think that people all over the world could identify this logo.
Posted on June 30, 2007
Kyle Fletcher said:
Big thanks to the BADcast folks for the site crit at the end of this episode. Any more feedback in here would be greatly appreciated as well. Upddates to my site are in a planning phase so all feedback is much appreciated. Cheers!
Posted on July 5, 2007