Design Crimes: corporations ditching classic logos for newer logos that are duds

that would be real good except for the um, dog-diarrhea green?

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.

http://www.la-juice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/greendale_communit_college_logo.jpg

http://www.whiskeyandbeans.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/vonnegut-asshole.jpg

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

Don't love this either

http://geekalabama.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/wendys.jpg

anything that keeps people from eating at arby's is a net positive but gah

"Slicing up freshness!" sounds like the slogan of a serial killer.

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.

lol i love that

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"

"don't look at the hat"

LOL

I see "slicing up freshness" and just think "slicing up eyeballs" every damn time.

hahahaha

DON'T LOOK AT ARBY'S, I WANT YOU TO KNOWW

dying @ "dnt look at the hat"

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_TNKyjGPbA44/SlJUHg4B-QI/AAAAAAAAA4A/WLxyZJEq4_8/s400/drugstore-cowboy_156.jpg

http://hipsterbranding.tumblr.com/

Kentucky Fried Chicken is genius.-

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

I think they are showing a new one every day for thirty days.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agRxG-X_TEQ#at=17

Oh, I guess that's a cool way to roll it out. I hope today's isn't the winner.

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.

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.

Hipsterbranding is awesome.

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

otoh it's quite handy having an instant indicator of quality so maybe points for honesty i guess

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

c'mon you're pulling the old before/after photo trick there, everything looks great in neon.

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.

i'm ok with this one:

1968:

http://i.imgur.com/VEbzTcb.png

2014:

http://i.imgur.com/id2GdxP.png
http://i.imgur.com/g4YWopP.png

When i was in design class that Morton Salt thing was very much admired.

Pretty sure I know someone with a tattoo of it, in fact.

I've met at least two people with that as a tattoo

I know one.

Both of the ones I met were from or had lived in Chicago which didn't surprise me

I used that as my Livejournal user icon when I was in high school

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!

The og Morton Salt girl is iconic, the new one looks like clip art.

http://i.imgur.com/LBGwHIL.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/zqZuAcf.png

er xpost

btw, Payless logo in my neighborhood remains unchanged eight years later:

http://i.imgur.com/sojq0Ho.png

Wait, does that street go: Wendy's, Burger King, McDonald's, KFC, Taco Bell, ???, Payless, and then? Heart clinic?

you never been to america before or what

That's not a Burger King, it's a Shell, jeez.

Burger King's across the street.

*in the Shell

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

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