If only because our SU's last design team basically covered everything in that style and we mocked them for it.
― they all are afflicted with a sickness of existence (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 8 August 2013 07:09 (ten years ago) link
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 (six 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 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/WryikbM.gif
― pplains, Friday, 4 May 2018 18:12 (six 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 (six years ago) link
BOral
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 4 May 2018 18:17 (six 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 (six 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 (six 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 (six 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 (six 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 (six years ago) link
lol old lunch xp
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Friday, 4 May 2018 19:15 (six 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 (six 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