so sad.
― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 7 October 2006 01:38 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.commarts.com/CA/feadesign_d/timeline/inside/images/137.gif
new:
http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keating/images/at-t-logo.jpg
― researching ur life (grady), Saturday, 7 October 2006 01:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― researching ur life (grady), Saturday, 7 October 2006 01:43 (seventeen years ago) link
xp
so is that
― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 7 October 2006 01:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― ram jam holder (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 7 October 2006 01:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― Butt Dickass (Dick Butkus), Saturday, 7 October 2006 01:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― researching ur life (grady), Saturday, 7 October 2006 01:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― ram jam holder (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 7 October 2006 02:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― Butt Dickass (Dick Butkus), Saturday, 7 October 2006 02:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― King-a-Ling (King-a-Ling), Saturday, 7 October 2006 02:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― King-a-Ling (King-a-Ling), Saturday, 7 October 2006 02:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― Butt Dickass (Dick Butkus), Saturday, 7 October 2006 02:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― King-a-Ling (King-a-Ling), Saturday, 7 October 2006 02:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― Butt Dickass (Dick Butkus), Saturday, 7 October 2006 02:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Saturday, 7 October 2006 02:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― Butt Dickass (Dick Butkus), Saturday, 7 October 2006 02:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Saturday, 7 October 2006 02:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― A Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Saturday, 7 October 2006 04:39 (seventeen years ago) link
http://static.flickr.com/55/109581899_9c989dd23b.jpg
― ram jam holder (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 7 October 2006 04:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Saturday, 7 October 2006 05:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 7 October 2006 05:35 (seventeen years ago) link
Still, if nothing else, trying to change the thing reminds you of what you liked about the classic version in the first place.
― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 7 October 2006 05:37 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.ponyvillagemall.com/images/directory/full/41bcf56dac85d.jpg
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Saturday, 7 October 2006 05:45 (seventeen years ago) link
http://images.businessweek.com/ss/06/04/red_blue/image/exxon.jpg
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Saturday, 7 October 2006 05:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Saturday, 7 October 2006 06:02 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.markvictorhansen.com/images/cnn.gif
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Saturday, 7 October 2006 06:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― ram jam holder (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 7 October 2006 06:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― ram jam holder (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 7 October 2006 06:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― Adrienne Begley (sparklecock), Saturday, 7 October 2006 06:53 (seventeen years ago) link
2. http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1130000/images/_1130544_tt150.jpg
3. http://www.allaboutweybridge.co.uk/aaw/images/poferries_logo.gif
― StanM (StanM), Saturday, 7 October 2006 09:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― anthony easton (anthony), Saturday, 7 October 2006 10:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― mark 0 (mark 0), Saturday, 7 October 2006 10:25 (seventeen years ago) link
New one looks like a disgruntled kid!
― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Saturday, 7 October 2006 14:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― Butt Dickass (Dick Butkus), Saturday, 7 October 2006 14:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― jhoshea megafauna (scoopsnoodle), Saturday, 7 October 2006 14:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― jhoshea megafauna (scoopsnoodle), Saturday, 7 October 2006 14:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― jhoshea megafauna (scoopsnoodle), Saturday, 7 October 2006 15:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― ram jam holder (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 7 October 2006 15:04 (seventeen years ago) link
Reminds me of 'Look In' magazine.
― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Saturday, 7 October 2006 15:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― jhoshea megafauna (scoopsnoodle), Saturday, 7 October 2006 15:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― StanM (StanM), Saturday, 7 October 2006 15:19 (seventeen years ago) link
For fuck's sake. The old logo was the only thing that set Payless apart from the other cheap shoe stores.
I also like the "spoon" in the new FedEx.
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Saturday, 7 October 2006 15:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 7 October 2006 15:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― StanM (StanM), Saturday, 7 October 2006 15:41 (seventeen years ago) link
No bowtie, no credibility.
― Orgy of Pragmatism (Charles McCain), Saturday, 7 October 2006 15:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 7 October 2006 16:02 (seventeen years ago) link
this however is glorious, especailly @ night (although not so much in this picture, best i could find)
― jhoshea megafauna (scoopsnoodle), Saturday, 7 October 2006 16:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― jhoshea megafauna (scoopsnoodle), Saturday, 7 October 2006 16:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 7 October 2006 16:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― Super Cub (Debito), Saturday, 7 October 2006 17:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― nate p. (natepatrin), Sunday, 8 October 2006 00:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― nate p. (natepatrin), Sunday, 8 October 2006 00:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― nate p. (natepatrin), Sunday, 8 October 2006 00:49 (seventeen years ago) link
vs.
http://www010.upp.so-net.ne.jp/us-hi/photo/sign-03.jpg
― molly d (mollyd), Sunday, 8 October 2006 01:17 (seventeen years ago) link
"Current" here means "c. 1998".
― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 8 October 2006 01:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― jhoshea megafauna (scoopsnoodle), Sunday, 8 October 2006 01:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― anthony easton (anthony), Sunday, 8 October 2006 01:45 (seventeen years ago) link
http://tobaccoonline.co.uk/images/products/1010200425749PMDunhill-19.gif
...
http://www.discount-cigarettes-store.com/images/product_details/dunhill-filter.gif????
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Sunday, 8 October 2006 01:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Sunday, 8 October 2006 01:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 8 October 2006 02:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― My Imperfect Cousin (MIC), Sunday, 8 October 2006 03:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― Kim (Kim), Sunday, 8 October 2006 03:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 8 October 2006 04:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― Butt Dickass (Dick Butkus), Sunday, 8 October 2006 04:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Sunday, 8 October 2006 04:35 (seventeen years ago) link
the Citi arc is the Travelers umbrella
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 8 October 2006 04:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...), Sunday, 8 October 2006 16:25 (seventeen years ago) link
Even the first one is a bit mangled by the addition of the red and blue bits
― Ed (dali), Sunday, 8 October 2006 16:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Sunday, 8 October 2006 16:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 8 October 2006 16:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― ram jam holder (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 8 October 2006 17:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 8 October 2006 17:19 (seventeen years ago) link
Inside the "e" of the FedEx logo.
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Sunday, 8 October 2006 18:24 (seventeen years ago) link
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42090000/jpg/_42090432_torylogo_bbc203.jpg
― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Sunday, 8 October 2006 19:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― chap who would dare to contain two ingredients. Tea and bags. (chap), Sunday, 8 October 2006 20:00 (seventeen years ago) link
http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/if/2006/10/03/20061003_if.jpg
http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/if/2006/10/05/20061005_if.jpg
― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Sunday, 8 October 2006 20:08 (seventeen years ago) link
Ever notice the arrow in the Ex? I think that's more intentional.
― Butt Dickass (Dick Butkus), Sunday, 8 October 2006 20:12 (seventeen years ago) link
This observation is very OTM, however, the story I heard was that when Phil Knight was in his selling-shoes-out-the-back-of-his-car days, he noticed a co-worker doodling on a note pad. He said that he liked the little soosh design he had drawn and offered to buy the "rights" to it for something like $35.
Also:
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/images/Old_Microsoft_Logo.gif
― researching ur life (grady), Monday, 9 October 2006 18:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― Abbott (Abbott), Monday, 9 October 2006 19:03 (seventeen years ago) link
<3 that old
MICRO SOFT
logo? Does anyone know a font that looks like that?
It looks a little like Mexcellent, but not quite.
― felicity, Monday, 7 July 2008 20:28 (fifteen years ago) link
I thought this revive was going to be about Walmart's (formerly Wal-Mart) new logo.
http://images.businessweek.com/story/08/190/0702_walmart.jpg
http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/jul2008/id2008072_324653.htm?campaign_id=innovation_related
― Rock Hardy, Monday, 7 July 2008 20:49 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/xerox_logo.gif
― tremendoid, Monday, 7 July 2008 20:57 (fifteen years ago) link
I like the new xerox font. Looks like those 3D beach ball logos are very in.
Walmart looks like the most generic design-your-own ever!
― felicity, Monday, 7 July 2008 21:00 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.logo-design99.com/nwa_logo2.gif
TOO MUCH LOWER CASE
the lower case here means that the logo doesn't "work" as well too
― conrad, Monday, 7 July 2008 21:03 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.guidebookgallery.org/pics/gui/startupshutdown/splash/win101.png
― snoball, Monday, 7 July 2008 21:04 (fifteen years ago) link
would it be politically incorrect to turn AJ into a white woman with the excuse that they're trying to distance themselves from poor representations of past choices? Yes! They're screwed for life!
-- Butt Dickass (Dick Butkus), Friday, October 6, 2006 10:06 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Link
B-but Aunt Jemima is shapely and thoroughly bangable. If the guilty liberals replace her with an assless white girl, I'll have nothing to masturbate to at the breakfast table!
-- King-a-Ling (King-a-Ling), Friday, October 6, 2006 10:18 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Link
truly it was a golden age
― and what, Monday, 7 July 2008 21:11 (fifteen years ago) link
urghhh way too snuggly, and facebook + xbox doesn't compute on any level. i can almost understand moving away from the (classic) rock of gibraltar thing but if so 'speed' and/or and 'intelligence' would have been more industry appropriate.
― tremendoid, Monday, 7 July 2008 21:15 (fifteen years ago) link
I can't be the only one to think of this
http://musicmoz.org/img/editors/newwave/nwa1.gif
― Oilyrags, Monday, 7 July 2008 21:36 (fifteen years ago) link
can't believe Northwest ditched the elegant "NW" design of their logo, but felt like it needed to keep a scrap of red triangle?
― sexyDancer, Monday, 7 July 2008 21:40 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.signmachine.us/images/nw_03.jpg
― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 7 July 2008 21:55 (fifteen years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/Aig3i.jpg
http://www.starbucks.com/blog/looking-forward-to-starbucks-next-chapter
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 23:01 (thirteen years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6a/Telecom_%C3%89ireann.png
http://www.insideireland.ie/uploads/image/ICT/EircomStory.jpg
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 23:07 (thirteen years ago) link
starbucksgate
― minecraft on a milk sea (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 23:08 (thirteen years ago) link
actually i dont mind the new logo tbqh
― minecraft on a milk sea (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 23:09 (thirteen years ago) link
My favorites are the ugly black and red logos. Yo, you are on the internet, don't lead me to think I am doing business with some angry macho steroids guy.
― Cubby Wubby Nubby Hubby Dubby (u s steel), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 23:13 (thirteen years ago) link
i like the lower case, minimal logos so common these days. the latest pepsi one is cool.
― carles II of spain (max arrrrrgh), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 23:17 (thirteen years ago) link
http://adland.tv/files/imagecache/storyinside/Ilovecum.jpg
― minecraft on a milk sea (diamonddave85), Thursday, 6 January 2011 18:08 (thirteen years ago) link
I thought this thread was revived for the new comedy central logo. Not that it is horrible, but looks too much like the copyright symbol.
― not the sort of person who would wind up in a landfill (Nicole), Thursday, 6 January 2011 18:12 (thirteen years ago) link
HA!
― Dr. (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 6 January 2011 18:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Love how in the Starbucks thing "We become a publicly traded company" coincides with "Mermaid chick is no longer visibly spreading her tail-leg thingies"
― hey boys, suppers on me, our video just went bacterial (Hurting 2), Thursday, 6 January 2011 18:19 (thirteen years ago) link
The new logo makes it look more like a government agency.
― won't be on this church plan ting (kkvgz), Thursday, 6 January 2011 18:29 (thirteen years ago) link
I like it though.
― won't be on this church plan ting (kkvgz), Thursday, 6 January 2011 18:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Now it looks kinda more like "I brought you these two fish"
― hey boys, suppers on me, our video just went bacterial (Hurting 2), Thursday, 6 January 2011 18:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Actually it's appropriate because starbucks coffee kinda tastes like there were fish in the coffeemaker
― hey boys, suppers on me, our video just went bacterial (Hurting 2), Thursday, 6 January 2011 18:31 (thirteen years ago) link
What is starbuck?
― heh (kelpolaris), Thursday, 6 January 2011 18:38 (thirteen years ago) link
the (now invisible) opening post to the thread was this btw:
http://www.shamoonaltaf.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/ups-logo.gif
― jed_, Thursday, 6 January 2011 18:39 (thirteen years ago) link
^don't really mind that one, but for the first time in my life I read that as "upz"/oopz
― heh (kelpolaris), Thursday, 6 January 2011 18:41 (thirteen years ago) link
the new one isn't terrible (apart from the shineyness effect thing) but the old one is so charming.
― jed_, Thursday, 6 January 2011 18:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Looks the badge a brigade of retiree gift-wrappers would pin on themselves
― heh (kelpolaris), Thursday, 6 January 2011 18:45 (thirteen years ago) link
"We're the Oops brigade!"
― heh (kelpolaris), Thursday, 6 January 2011 18:53 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/PcGgp.jpg
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Sunday, 18 November 2012 05:17 (eleven years ago) link
Do people have affection for the original ebay logo? I had to google it to even remember what it looked like.
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 18 November 2012 05:28 (eleven years ago) link
http://blog.brightonagency.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/ebay-logos.jpg
I like the new one a lot better.
― Judah Ben Ghazi (how's life), Sunday, 18 November 2012 12:38 (eleven years ago) link
http://az204679.vo.msecnd.net/media/images/other/1968-1981-logo_129833211273375862_216x147.jpghttp://az204679.vo.msecnd.net/media/images/other/2008-logo_129833221216979757_300x73.jpg
― Judah Ben Ghazi (how's life), Sunday, 18 November 2012 12:42 (eleven years ago) link
the ebay logo's fine but the new favicon is driving me up the fucking wall
― r|t|c, Sunday, 18 November 2012 12:52 (eleven years ago) link
oh yeah, it looks like a damned test pattern
― Judah Ben Ghazi (how's life), Sunday, 18 November 2012 12:53 (eleven years ago) link
http://i2.cdnds.net/12/46/300x225/media_new_itv_logo.jpg
the old one was shit too tbf but still
― r|t|c, Sunday, 18 November 2012 12:53 (eleven years ago) link
Looks like choppy waters.
― Chewshabadoo, Sunday, 18 November 2012 13:49 (eleven years ago) link
that would be real good except for the um, dog-diarrhea green?
― Judah Ben Ghazi (how's life), Sunday, 18 November 2012 15:37 (eleven years ago) link
The old ebay logo was ugly as hell, so step in the right direction IMO. The latest Walmart logo is heinous. Friend said "it looks like a butthole" and that's all I've been able to see since.
― circa1916, Sunday, 18 November 2012 15:52 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.la-juice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/greendale_communit_college_logo.jpg
― 5-Hour Enmity (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 18 November 2012 15:56 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.whiskeyandbeans.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/vonnegut-asshole.jpg
― Judah Ben Ghazi (how's life), Sunday, 18 November 2012 16:00 (eleven years ago) link
There was discussion of this in another thread, but I still think Arby's blew this one.
http://xk9.com/bones/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/RB.png
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 18 November 2012 18:45 (eleven years ago) link
Don't love this either
http://geekalabama.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/wendys.jpg
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 18 November 2012 18:47 (eleven years ago) link
anything that keeps people from eating at arby's is a net positive but gah
― iatee, Sunday, 18 November 2012 18:48 (eleven years ago) link
"Slicing up freshness!" sounds like the slogan of a serial killer.
― Come Into My Layer (Old Lunch), Sunday, 18 November 2012 19:28 (eleven years ago) link
plus with the arby's thing the issue for me is that the hat is three-dimensional and rendered but the text logo is flat- what is their point? what's that about? is there some hat-as-signified / corporation-as-signifier thing going on? whatever semiotics, it mostly reminds me that a friend of mine had the theory that looking at the Arby's sign was bad luck- if we drove by certain stripmalls he would suddenly say, in a serious voice, "don't look at the hat"
Now in his honor I intone that warning everytime I see an Arby's.
― the tune was space, Sunday, 18 November 2012 21:31 (eleven years ago) link
lol i love that
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Sunday, 18 November 2012 21:33 (eleven years ago) link
to be honest he thought that the Arby's hat was a penis hidden in plain sight and it was probably just a case of "Schwanzangst"
― the tune was space, Sunday, 18 November 2012 21:35 (eleven years ago) link
"don't look at the hat"
LOL
― jed_, Sunday, 18 November 2012 21:49 (eleven years ago) link
I see "slicing up freshness" and just think "slicing up eyeballs" every damn time.
― Una Stubbs' Tears (Trayce), Sunday, 18 November 2012 22:39 (eleven years ago) link
hahahaha
DON'T LOOK AT ARBY'S, I WANT YOU TO KNOWW
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 18 November 2012 23:11 (eleven years ago) link
dying @ "dnt look at the hat"
― 乒乓, Sunday, 18 November 2012 23:13 (eleven years ago) link
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_TNKyjGPbA44/SlJUHg4B-QI/AAAAAAAAA4A/WLxyZJEq4_8/s400/drugstore-cowboy_156.jpg
― Faster than food (Myonga Vön Bontee), Monday, 19 November 2012 23:25 (eleven years ago) link
http://hipsterbranding.tumblr.com/
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Friday, 2 August 2013 19:49 (ten years ago) link
Kentucky Fried Chicken is genius.-
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 2 August 2013 22:42 (ten years ago) link
Yahoo!'s old logo was no great shakes, and I realize they're not a top tier player in the internet world anymore, but surely they could've paid for better than this:
http://i.imgur.com/bUYzxvu.png
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 8 August 2013 05:31 (ten years ago) link
I think they are showing a new one every day for thirty days. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agRxG-X_TEQ#at=17
― Hooks on Phoenix worked for me (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Thursday, 8 August 2013 05:37 (ten years ago) link
Oh, I guess that's a cool way to roll it out. I hope today's isn't the winner.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 8 August 2013 05:42 (ten years ago) link
Judging from their Flickr redesign, you can rest assured that there is much, much worse to come, and that the worst of all will be the final selection.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 8 August 2013 05:43 (ten years ago) link
I don't hate the Flickr redesign like some people do, but I admit there's a certain amount of fun in ragging on Yahoo.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 8 August 2013 05:46 (ten years ago) link
Hipsterbranding is awesome.
― they all are afflicted with a sickness of existence (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 8 August 2013 07:09 (ten years ago) link
If only because our SU's last design team basically covered everything in that style and we mocked them for it.
always think of this thread whenever i'm shopping and come across either of these
http://vintagefashionguild.org/files/images/_big_vintagefashionguild_28195.jpg
http://vintagefashionguild.org/files/images/_big_vintagefashionguild_105969.jpg
would love to meet the cunt that decided to do that someday, just to stare into the void like
― r|t|c, Thursday, 8 August 2013 09:52 (ten years ago) link
otoh it's quite handy having an instant indicator of quality so maybe points for honesty i guess
― r|t|c, Thursday, 8 August 2013 09:54 (ten years ago) link
This has to be one of the all-time worst - replacing a truly classic, industry-changing, universally recognized, spectacularly distinctive logo/signage with this generic, utterly forgettable POS....
http://imageshack.us/scaled/landing/827/holidayinn72nightpleasa.jpg --> http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/01/83/6e/f9/new-sign-went-up-april.jpg
― Lee626, Thursday, 8 August 2013 12:38 (ten years ago) link
c'mon you're pulling the old before/after photo trick there, everything looks great in neon.
― click here to start exploding (ledge), Thursday, 8 August 2013 12:40 (ten years ago) link
those were actually incandescent light bulbs for many of the animated parts, which were U&K. The cost of keeping the signs lit is cited by the company as one reason they were removed.
An environmental disaster mind you, but it could be replicated nowadays using low-power LEDs for less than the fluorescent tubes in the new signs cost to run.
― Lee626, Thursday, 8 August 2013 12:57 (ten years ago) link
i'm ok with this one:
1968:
http://i.imgur.com/VEbzTcb.png
2014:
http://i.imgur.com/id2GdxP.pnghttp://i.imgur.com/g4YWopP.png
― |$̲̅(̲̅ιοο̲̅)̲̅$̲̅| (gr8080), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 23:02 (ten years ago) link
When i was in design class that Morton Salt thing was very much admired.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 23:16 (ten years ago) link
Pretty sure I know someone with a tattoo of it, in fact.
I've met at least two people with that as a tattoo
― joygoat, Thursday, 20 February 2014 05:40 (ten years ago) link
I know one.
― jaymc, Thursday, 20 February 2014 05:43 (ten years ago) link
Both of the ones I met were from or had lived in Chicago which didn't surprise me
― joygoat, Thursday, 20 February 2014 05:48 (ten years ago) link
I used that as my Livejournal user icon when I was in high school
― 龜, Thursday, 20 February 2014 05:50 (ten years ago) link
This one was such an obvious mistake that they switched back:
http://creativeroots.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/jal-japan-airlines-logo1.jpg
Come on, Holiday Inn, you know what to do now!
― Josefa, Thursday, 20 February 2014 16:17 (ten years ago) link
The og Morton Salt girl is iconic, the new one looks like clip art.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 20 February 2014 16:28 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/LBGwHIL.jpg
― |$̲̅(̲̅ιοο̲̅)̲̅$̲̅| (gr8080), Thursday, 20 February 2014 16:34 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/zqZuAcf.png
― his eye is on the sbarro (unregistered), Thursday, 20 February 2014 16:34 (ten years ago) link
er xpost
― his eye is on the sbarro (unregistered), Thursday, 20 February 2014 16:35 (ten years ago) link
btw, Payless logo in my neighborhood remains unchanged eight years later:
http://i.imgur.com/sojq0Ho.png
― pplains, Thursday, 20 February 2014 17:00 (ten years ago) link
Wait, does that street go: Wendy's, Burger King, McDonald's, KFC, Taco Bell, ???, Payless, and then? Heart clinic?
― an office job is as secure as a Weetabix padlock (snoball), Thursday, 20 February 2014 18:33 (ten years ago) link
you never been to america before or what
― j., Thursday, 20 February 2014 18:37 (ten years ago) link
That's not a Burger King, it's a Shell, jeez.
― pplains, Thursday, 20 February 2014 19:01 (ten years ago) link
Burger King's across the street.
― pplains, Thursday, 20 February 2014 19:02 (ten years ago) link
*in the Shell
― Spottie, Thursday, 20 February 2014 19:05 (ten years ago) link
I don't know what this is, but it's currently appearing on the tv network's Youtube page and it's only applied to the promo of Samantha Bee's upcoming late night show...
http://i.imgur.com/Qz6WiFc.jpg
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 16 September 2015 00:31 (eight years ago) link
Best Western went from looking like the king of the road to looking like a throat lozenge:
https://i.imgur.com/kzuFqDQ.png https://i.imgur.com/fKJZILB.png
― pplains, Monday, 29 January 2018 18:48 (six years ago) link
should never changed off the 1966 version
― fgti spinner (Spottie), Monday, 29 January 2018 18:50 (six years ago) link
!963 + a better font (maybe Copperplate Gothic) would have been ideal.
― Acanthonus armatus (Sanpaku), Monday, 29 January 2018 19:10 (six years ago) link
that one looks cool but also looks old. white outline around the blue makes it illegible. the '66 on looks like a simpler, more modern iteration of what preceded it, timeless imo. they basically kept it (just shoehorned some other stuff in) until 93.
they somehow managed to make the 2016 one worse with the new one.
― fgti spinner (Spottie), Monday, 29 January 2018 19:18 (six years ago) link
whoa they were "Best Eastern" from 1964-1966? *mind-blown.gif*
― hoooyaaargh it's me satan (voodoo chili), Monday, 29 January 2018 19:18 (six years ago) link
lol didnt even notice, weird
― fgti spinner (Spottie), Monday, 29 January 2018 19:20 (six years ago) link
maybe they were trying to get in on the British Invasion action
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 29 January 2018 22:33 (six years ago) link
I thought the W had slipped, but no, that would mean it was advertising Best Wastern. Could've been a good compromise!
Couldn't get past those clever front desk clerks though:
In California, a network of independent hotel operators began making referrals of each other to travelers. This “referral system” consisted of phone calls between one desk operator and another.
I mean, now that's how you make a network! Operators calling each other from their respective desks.
Also, BW tried to pass itself off as a co-op (instead of a franchisor) until the NORTH DAKOTA SUPREME COURT stepped in and knocked off the funny business.
― pplains, Tuesday, 30 January 2018 01:16 (six years ago) link
Flipside of this thread: corporations keeping absolutely terrible logos around forever and ever. If the Container Store logo was good, it'd be dope that they've stuck by it, but somehow they have chosen to stay loyal to the most incredibly bland thing possible, all their branding makes them look like a drug store that got a peppy refresh in 1990, and presumably sells tupperware and the like, even as the actual contents of their stores seem to be going for a slightly stylish "mini-IKEA" of semi-designy shelving, desks, and miscellaneous housewares.
http://icanstyleu.com/christiemoeller-old-blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/photo-2.jpg
― noel gallaghah's high flying burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb (Doctor Casino), Friday, 4 May 2018 17:13 (five years ago) link
"contain yourself" is also a really bad slogan. no fuck you, contain YOURself
― obviously DLC (Karl Malone), Friday, 4 May 2018 17:37 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/WryikbM.gif
― pplains, Friday, 4 May 2018 18:12 (five years ago) link
Of course, I would probably begin with that last one by suggesting a whole new name altogether.
― pplains, Friday, 4 May 2018 18:13 (five years ago) link
BOral
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 4 May 2018 18:17 (five years ago) link
they should rebrand to Oral β and make the beta look like a toothbrush. my invoice will be in the mail, proctor and gamble
― Roberto Spiralli, Friday, 4 May 2018 18:18 (five years ago) link
I can't make heads or tails of the Sears rebrand:
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/0b/be/14/0bbe14122d5cc358b677f20f35d7b19a.jpg
― Love Theme From Oh God! You Devil (Old Lunch), Friday, 4 May 2018 18:21 (five years ago) link
corporations keeping absolutely terrible logos around forever and ever.
Ooh, I've got one! Whenever I see one of these trucks on the road, I assume some executive in 1961 was like "we're a trucking company, I don't give a fuck about branding, just draw something up and get back to doing real work. You have five minutes.", and the company has steadfastly maintained that position ever since:http://www.genesys.com/images/social/meta/JB_Hunt_EN.png
― Dan I., Friday, 4 May 2018 19:04 (five years ago) link
Haha, 'ol J.B Hunt himself seems like just the kind of guy who'd say something like what I imagined:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnnie_Bryan_Hunthttps://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/af/Johnnie_Bryan_Hunt.gif
― Dan I., Friday, 4 May 2018 19:10 (five years ago) link
boring media stuff but i find the new Avid logo really cognitively distressing https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ec/Avid_logo_purple_2017.svg
― Fizzles, Friday, 4 May 2018 19:15 (five years ago) link
lol old lunch xp
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Friday, 4 May 2018 19:15 (five years ago) link
RS Componentshttps://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/ea/RS_Components_logo.svg/150px-RS_Components_logo.svg.pngSame logo since at least the early 80s. Looks like it was made with a potato stamp.
― 2018 has to be better (snoball), Friday, 4 May 2018 19:42 (five years ago) link
https://static.designboom.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/warner-bros-new-logo-pentagram-designboom-001.jpg
― Pie face (jed_), Tuesday, 19 January 2021 21:01 (three years ago) link
https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/wWW3LRdUi3kmEsy5d3thJM-970-80.png
― Pie face (jed_), Tuesday, 19 January 2021 21:04 (three years ago) link
Gm and Kia have also both just unveiled some very lacklustre redesigns.
― Kim, Wednesday, 20 January 2021 01:23 (three years ago) link
GMhttps://www.dezeen.com/2021/01/11/general-motors-logo-redesign-2021/
KIAhttps://www.caranddriver.com/news/a30222126/kia-new-logo/
― Kim, Wednesday, 20 January 2021 01:28 (three years ago) link
I mean, the Kia one looks a bit better than the old one, but Trent Reznor might not be pleased and no way does it read as K I A
― Kim, Wednesday, 20 January 2021 01:29 (three years ago) link
oof that gm one
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 01:35 (three years ago) link
GM discovers the instagram logo
― wasdnuos (abanana), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 02:03 (three years ago) link
I think the WB one isn't too bad as far as these things go. It's just a bit of a throwback. Usually logos without shading and gradients and beveling and and that kind of crap are better imo.
― Josefa, Wednesday, 20 January 2021 02:03 (three years ago) link
the GM one reminds me of this fancy top shelf ice cream brand that uses chemical symbols for their flavors ... Like Pb for Peanut Butter Stracciatela
The Kia one looks like a stretched version of the Nxivm sex cult brand -- the one the women got
― sarahell, Wednesday, 20 January 2021 02:48 (three years ago) link
any company that goes from upper case to lower case letters in its logo is a washed up company that refuses to age with dignity. it has the same impact of a 60 year old wearing clothes featuring the supreme logo.
― treeship., Wednesday, 20 January 2021 03:07 (three years ago) link
i agree about the kia nxivm-inspired logo. that is a company trying to build new associations in the mind of the consumer. exploiting neurolplasticity. growth hacking.
― treeship., Wednesday, 20 January 2021 03:08 (three years ago) link
sarahell's comparison of "gm" to fancy ice cream logo is otm.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 20 January 2021 03:14 (three years ago) link
https://pantograph0.goldbelly.com/cfill-h630-w1200/uploads/product_image/image/71903/gelato-choose-your-own-4-pints.fd0025518acac3307859dd3d0504ff23.jpg
for comparison
― sarahell, Wednesday, 20 January 2021 03:20 (three years ago) link
kinda annoyed now that I did this image search finding out that they have an Orange Honey Cardamom flavor that is not sold at my grocery store
― sarahell, Wednesday, 20 January 2021 03:21 (three years ago) link
new Petco logo:
https://cached.imagescaler.hbpl.co.uk/resize/scaleWidth/888/cached.offlinehbpl.hbpl.co.uk/news/ORP/petcoMAIN_1.png
― frogbs, Wednesday, 20 January 2021 03:33 (three years ago) link