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I can't speak for the others, but the Vancouver logo was representative of a totem as a fair bit of the brand of the Vancouver Olympics was celebrating various

I can't speak for the others, but the Vancouver logo was representative of a totem as a fair bit of the brand of the Vancouver Olympics was celebrating various Canadian native communities. I think the real upset is that the others are simple, but professional. IMO this one looks more like a bunch of cut out pieces of construction paper or a little more like grunge/graffiti. Maybe I'm missing a deeper meaning to the logo, but I think that a lot of people are if there is one.

kiujygtyujik 16y ago
It was representing an inukshuk - native eskimo culture that is about as far from Vancouver as Mexio is. Culturally it would have made as much sense to have an easer island statue.
- pbhjpbhj 16y ago
  No matter where the inukshuk originates from this one, http://www.bing.com/maps/default.aspx?q=1600+Beach+Ave%2c+Vancouver%2c+British+Columbia%2c+Canada&mkt=en-GB&FORM=BYFD http://www.bing.com/maps/default.aspx?q=1600+Beach+Ave%2c+Va... / http://www.seethewestend.com/inukshuk/inukshuk.htm http://www.seethewestend.com/inukshuk/inukshuk.htm, seems pretty close to Vancouver to me.
  - kiujygtyujik 16y ago
    Those were erected as tourist things by hotel chains. There is Cleopatra's needle in the centre of London - but it wouldn't make sense to have the pyramids and Sphinx as the symbol for London 2012.
    - pbhjpbhj 16y ago
      >Those were erected as tourist things by hotel chains. The second link says you are (at least partly) wrong.
- icegreentea 16y ago
  On the other hand, Canada has a whole has been adopting the inukshuk as a symbol of Canada as a whole. The Canadian government has gifted several inukshuks to foreign countries as symbols of friendship. They also appear in national parks cause hikers/campers think that their fun to make.