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Blue Peter Calls Upon British Child Designers
The Queen trusts her loyal subjects so much that she is giving the usually multi-million pound job of custom logo design to TV-watching kids, the BBC announced this Sunday 31st of October.
With sticky-back-plastic, a pair of blunt scissors and a pack of crayolas, viewers of kid’s show Blue Peter will become logo designer for a day, with their winning designs featuring on items ranging from commemorative mugs to big red buses, marking 60 years on the throne. The task of designing logos for previous Jubilees fell to industry professionals.
Children were told the news in the Monday edition of the show. The Royal Crown must be depicted somewhere on the design, but the Queen herself must not appear. Entries are divided into three age groupings: six to eight, nine to eleven and twelve to fourteen-year-olds. A panel of children’s illustrators and Blue Peter staff will judge the entries, and they will be overseen by British designer Marin Lambie-Nairn. In Feburary 2011, Winners will be announced. Runners up will join the overall winners at Buckingham Palace for a special party.
By Feburary 2012, Queen Elizabeth will become only the second monarch in British history to reign for sixty years on the throne.. The only previous monarch to reach their Diamond Jubilee was Elizabeth’s Great Great Grandmother, Queen Victoria, who reigned for 63 years in total.
Blue Peter itself is almost as old as the Queen’s reign, having been broadcast regularly since October 1958.. Blue Peter recently found itself in trouble for allegations of telephone-vote fixing: an industry wide problem that resulted in a severe shake-up of the British television industry. Show bosses are hoping that their selected logo designs will be less controversial than the name of their studio cat ‘socks’, who was supposed to be called ‘cookie’ after the result of a viewer poll.
2012 will also see the United Kingdom hosting the Olympics, making 2012 a very interesting year for the British. Comparisons between the Blue Peter designs and the controversial London 2012 Olympic logo are unlikely to be very kind..
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