The Logo Olympics

Olympic Airlines, once the national airline of Greece, has recently been sold by the Greek government to a private investment group. The new logo and name (now shortened in the 1980s fashion to Olympic Air) are supposed to signal a change in the company’s culture and offering. To that end the company has held a grand logo contest in the Olympic tradition of competition. Read on to see who took home the silver and bronze. These two runners up received 4,992 and 2,472 votes respectively; the winning logo received 11,652 votes At this point, logo contests are about as novel as air travel itself. If anyone has an excuse to put one on I suppose it’s a company with ‘Olympic’ in the name. What makes this contest unique though — and the result so underwhelming —