Each time I read about this I think about our dear Italian tourism portal www.italia.it that costed us more than 58mil€ in 2004-2008 and was a huge failure. Acc

Each time I read about this I think about our dear Italian tourism portal www.italia.it that costed us more than 58mil€ in 2004-2008 and was a huge failure. According to wikipedia[1] we have then spent additional 10mil for redoing it, plus 20mil for managing it in these years. Interesting for the HN designers is probably the "nice" logo[2] that won a 100.000Euro logo competition in 2006 (it was created by Landor, a US or UK brand design company...) There were jokes about the green "t" that looked like a cucumber (and in Italy the cucumber - "il cetriolo" - has sometimes a double meaning).. [1] http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italia.it http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italia.it [2] http://www.marcosansalone.com/creativeantblog/?p=310 http://www.marcosansalone.com/creativeantblog/?p=310