It's not as bad as the worst business logo ever.
3: Yeah, I wouldn't blame the business owner for getting pissed at the graphic artist who designed that logo.
Along the same lines, poor typography choices.
Worst ever has some stiff competition
Also Analtech, "the logical choice in thin layer chromatography plates and accessories," chose a logo that wouldn't be so bad, were it not for the company's name. However.
People seriously named a company Analtech? I'm torn between hoping that's a put-on and hoping it's real.
The logo in 6 is hilarious.
No innuendo or anything, but I like this one.
Had the logo in 6 been some kind of Catholic educational institution it would have been perfect.
And another one, that disappeared almost immediately once the links started rolling in.
Don't forget this classic for a Brazilian univeristy's Institute of Oriental Studies (they changed it later on).
Cross-posted 12 with 11... sigh.
#9: I guess you could say that the one in 11 and 12 has plenty of "innuendo".
Pwned, byatch!
Veering off-topic for a moment, Jon Swift's post on Chris Muir (containing an Unfogged link, btw) is worth your time.
Westnet braces for goatse backlash
Is 3 for real? That seems like it had to be deliberate (I suppose you could argue subconscious, but really).
Continuing the veerage, I can't decide if this is brillant or brilliantly idiotic. Either way, is it art?
The flowchart Swift links to is awesome.
I can see how a person or a couple of people would get together and say "Duhhhh....our logo is too boring....it's just a bunch of words.....we need to turn one of the letters into some sort of computer-related object to make it more eye-catching.....duhhhhhh.....keyboard...monitor...mouse....hey! A mouse is kind of curvy, it could be the U. How's this look? Alright, meeting over."
I like imagining the moment when some underling had to break it to the big boss that people think the logo he picked looks like... well, you see, sir... um... it's just that... well...
I drive by a store whose sign reads:
F L O O R K I N G
and always think, "oooh, how dirty! People are floorking right inside!"
20: From my close analysis, it appears that the only person in the world who can "cork it up" is Dave Chappelle.
24: And female Japanese nationals under 21.
Nah, there was a 'be very careful but go ahead if you really think it's a good idea' exception for black people in a generally good relationship with mainstream black political opinion.
There's a flower truck I drive by a couple times a week where they have a sign for the price of roses painted on the side of the truck. It says "Roses" on the first line, and the next line says "00Dz". For years I had no idea what the hell "Roses Oodz" meant. Then I realized that they change the price by putting a number in front of the "00 Dz", for example 14, making it "Roses- 14.00 Dz" The 14 is just a handwritten piece of cardboard that doesn't clearly go with the rest of the sign, and the cents is superfluous. Unfortunately, I don't know if my sense of graphic design is skewed by the fact that I did newspaper layout for a couple years in college- I often wonder what other people think when they see things that would bother my eye.
Locally we have this logo, which is always good for a double-take or two.
The OP graphic is brilliant because:
a) It scans so well: "Kwanzaa: Storage Deluxe! Every single holiday etc..."
b)It's relatively dog whistle advertising. Those inclined to disapprove would be unlikely to get the reference.
re: unfortunate business names:
I'm both relieved and ashamed that I let my partner talk me out of naming our late-90s IT company "Final Solutions."
I let my partner talk me out of naming
I sometimes wonder how different this blog would be had Unf gotten his way and named the place magicjohnsons.com.
19: I'm going to go with "clever" and "art". I note that a computer geek has reserved the geek-significant numbers 255 and 256, which makes me smile.
A la 28, my brother applied for a position at Research in Motion, which provided several entertaining opportunities to ask him about the RIM job.
And of course, someone already reserved 1337.
26 -> 20, but you have to read the link to understand.
26: Indeed there was. But I doubt that there's anyone alive today who could pass through all the hoops necessary to get there -- thus my comment at 20.
#25: The Japanese women he's referring to are known locally as ganguro.
23: There was a place in Seattle called "TA Floor Coverings," and I always thought it seemed sadly correct.
Though I can see the penis in 6, I have a hard time doing so, so I don't think it's a real contender for worst evar.
There's no penis in 6. What there is is fellatio.
pdf23ds' robot x-ray vision allows him to see inside the child's head.
Goddammit, Apo, I hate that I didn't think of that joke.
In Cleveland, there was a storefront with an unfortunate font that rendered the F in "FUSSY CLEANERS" rather P-like, to my continual delight.
The one in 6 would be REEEAAL hard to explain to the people who designed the logo.
"What are you talking about? It's a child standing next to an adult, just like hundreds of other logos!"
"Well, you see... the fact that the figures are so stylized, and the possible arch of the back, makes it seem as if the adult and the child may be facing each other...with the child's face at groin level....and...well...the adult's hand is on the child's head, as is customarily done during the act of...oh man, never mind."
Around here we have the A&S Salon, and the typeface makes the ampersand look quite a bit like the capital 'S' next to it. It took me awhile to be able to pass that storefront without doing a double-take.
I bet it would be pretty easy to fix, though. Just get rid of the part of the child's body on the upper-right that, in the dirty interpretation, looks like their arms and hands holding ... something. Then it's hard to see the child except as facing forward.
Are you sure you're looking at the same logo as everybody else?
That logo isn't that different from the "Watch out for kids crossing the street" logo. Just make it clear that the people are not facing each other, and for god's sake take the adult's hand off the child's head.
I see what pdf means, but I don't think the fix would help enough. There's a sort of corner on the right top of the child's body, that could be interpreted as the kid's hand holding something steady. But even without that, the logo would still look pretty weird. I think you'd need visible facial features to fix it.
I think you need the adult not to be arching his body and pressing the kid against his crotch.
Yeah, I'm sure. I just tried paintbrushing said protuberance out of the picture and it didn't make as big of a difference as I thought it would.
for god's sake take the adult's hand off the child's head.
Okay, one, funny. Two, if you guys would quit fucking head-shoving, the hand-on-head gesture wouldn't even register. So there.
Sexist.
if you guys would quit fucking head-shoving
All my polite requests for you to stop were going unheeded. I'm sorry if you feel I pushed you away too brusquely.
If you hadn't insisted on wearing a ball gag, you could've just said something.
Sigh. What will the children think?
