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@maxmustermann
This is a joke right? Someone's shitpost maybe? Please...
@maxmustermann
FUCKING DAMMIT!
And people wonder why I have depression... Ok, technically this is not why, but it's not helping either.
@alyx @maxmustermann The overall concept is good (like, the girl). But, the art is atrocious. How did this get approved? Even her hair-band and socks are just like a flat star pattern that has zero texture nor respect for the geometry of her body or the object its applied to---like a pattern bucket-fill. They couldn't have farmed this basic concept out to some other artists for reinterpretation?
@adiz @maxmustermann
>How did this get approved?
Entrenched bureaucratic corruption. I've seen it before. My country had a big controversy some years ago, over a logo created to promote tourism. We spend millions of dollars over what was essentially a stylized leaf. Then a journalist found a stock image that looked 90% similar, that costed a few hundred dollars. And it was even closer to a UK eco bus promotional thing (Change Transport)
My guess for this EU mascot, they staged an auction (cause everything needs to be done via auctions), with some insane DEI or other bureaucratic nightmare requirements that eliminated everyone from participating, except one or two firms that are run by some family members of politicians or something, that don't even have any artists on board. The mascot was probably drawn by some art collage reject, that never drew anything outside of whatever was required to get a basic art degree. Again, a complete reject that has no clue about art, but bought his way into getting a diploma, so now he's an "authority" on the matter.
