Olympic cards

[anef]

My local dry cleaner's is selling a range of Olympic greetings cards, based on previous games.  There's one for the Montreal games in 1976, and a very stylish one for the Dutch 1928 games.  I glanced at it and initally assumed that it was German because of the language.  And then thought ah, no, they wouldn't do one for the 1936 games, would they?  There wasn't one in the dry cleaner's but I looked on-line and found the attached:  http://fineartamerica.com/products/olympic-games-reproduction-greeting-card.html

Is this massively tasteless?  Who is going to buy it apart from persons with dubious political sympathies?

And who is going to be sending Olympic themed cards anyway?  Happy 2012 Olympics?  It just seems such a weird idea.

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

It is odd, isn't it? I can imagine some people will send them as birthday cards to people with birthdays around the time of the Olympics, but otherwise... Baffling.
And the German one... Someone wasn't thinking.

[bohemiancoast.livejournal.com]

I went to the 2012 tat shop at Westfield East, and sprinkled amongst all the HIDEOUS 2012 tat is some much better retro-themed tat based on 1948 merch designs.

But all the 2012 stuff is unimaginably vile. What were they thinking?

[anef.livejournal.com]

It's all of a piece with the sponsorship, though, isn't it? Lowest common denominator stuff - Coke, McDonalds, and a dodgy chemical company, all because we're desperate for money. If we had tasteful designs we'd show up the sponsors.