Iran Is Seeing Red Over Pink; Iceland Sings The Blues
'Im not ugly, just controversial.'
It's been less than two months since Ice Town broke the story of Rio "borrowing" Icelandic artwork for it's 2016 Olympics logo. But Iran doesn't seem to like Iceland getting all the attention. So they've created a controversary of their own, yanking the publicity torch out of Iceland's grip.
Here's what's happening:
Iran is threatening to boycott the 2012 London Olympics. And not because they realize they don't have any Olympic-calibre athletes. No. They claim the official logo for the games evokes the word ZION, a biblical term for Jerusalem. And that gets them really bent out of shape (kind of like the logo itself.) But let's forget about the shapes (which resemble a granite swastika after an earthquake), and talk about the funky colors. Pink and yellow? Are they rebranding this as a Susan G. Komen thrash metal event? A gay pride parade for dyslexics? Or was this part of a challenge on Project Runway?
It's hard to tell at this point. But let's take a look at the most probable inspirations for this wacky logo:
Here's what's happening:
Iran is threatening to boycott the 2012 London Olympics. And not because they realize they don't have any Olympic-calibre athletes. No. They claim the official logo for the games evokes the word ZION, a biblical term for Jerusalem. And that gets them really bent out of shape (kind of like the logo itself.) But let's forget about the shapes (which resemble a granite swastika after an earthquake), and talk about the funky colors. Pink and yellow? Are they rebranding this as a Susan G. Komen thrash metal event? A gay pride parade for dyslexics? Or was this part of a challenge on Project Runway?
It's hard to tell at this point. But let's take a look at the most probable inspirations for this wacky logo: