shame, shame rio

so here's the deal rio de janero is the site of the next

summer olympics (i don't know whose brilliant idea that

was, but i digress). this new years rio unveiled "their" logo for

these esteemed events. tada here it is.

but, but you say there is nothing wrong with this it looks

just fine some might say (others say its boring anyways).

if only that was all. take a look at this logo:

now you start to see where the problem comes in. not

much is different between these two logos.

you might even say the rio one looks

like an updated version of the telluride one.the red person

is missing and they no longer have legs, the rest is

pretty much the same. you would think (hope) that a big design firm

would have caught something like this before going

public with something as big as an olympic logo.

you would think the olympic committee might have had a look

around to see if the logo was an original before declaring

it to the world. the Brazilian government is saying there is no issue,

no surprise there, of course they don't want to have to recant their logo

to the rest of the world and look like idiots. but i think they are looking

like bigger idiots by not doing anything.

so far the telluride foundation (which is based in denver) has

not come out with a statement regarding the

situation. probably having a lengthy discussion

with their lawyer right at this very moment.

someone had the nerve to say that telluride has no cause

for complaint because their logo looks

similar to this matisse painting.

i thinks there is a much bigger difference between telluride and matisse

than there is between rio and telluride. and while we are on the subject

the matisse painting has probably reached the age to

where it is in the public domain, unless someone

has copyrighted it. so even if telluride had copied the

matisse (which i don't think they did) it would not count as

plagiarism do to the fact that the matisse is in the public domain.