"one of the most famous and all-pervading visual images for a long while"
Well, I certainly thought of Angel of the North when I saw it, but then again I spent a couple of years in the UK soon after that was installed, and I'm interested in contemporary art. While it's certainly memorable and much-parodied over there, the average Kiwi is much less Anglocentric in his or her cultural sympathies than a generation ago, and probably thinks that the Turner Prize has something to do with CNN.
To me, it's the proportions that are so Gormleyesque, but most people without a British or art-world connection are unlikely to make the same connection. Perhaps the logo designers were consciously ripping of the Angel of the North, but they probably would have been aware that the typical sweater-buyer wouldn't be more than vaguely familiar with it.
"one of the most famous and all-pervading visual images for a long while"
Well, I certainly thought of Angel of the North when I saw it, but then again I spent a couple of years in the UK soon after that was installed, and I'm interested in contemporary art. While it's certainly memorable and much-parodied over there, the average Kiwi is much less Anglocentric in his or her cultural sympathies than a generation ago, and probably thinks that the Turner Prize has something to do with CNN.
To me, it's the proportions that are so Gormleyesque, but most people without a British or art-world connection are unlikely to make the same connection. Perhaps the logo designers were consciously ripping of the Angel of the North, but they probably would have been aware that the typical sweater-buyer wouldn't be more than vaguely familiar with it.