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scottygee
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 Graphic Design Shenanigans Somebody caught hell over this one...
Article here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/24/nogc124.xml
What they paid for:
and what they got:
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SAMBA
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Yeah I saw this- Hillarious! 
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Joe
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LOL
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rhinomilk
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HA!. took me a little bit to get it
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Vombie
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OOOoooOOH.   I think they should keep it.
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pickleloaf
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does it look like a guy yanking it? i'm slow
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Vombie
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pickleloaf wrote: does it look like a guy yanking it? i'm slow yes.
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Dean
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From the article: A spokesman for OGC said: “it is not inappropriate to an organisation that’s looking to have a firm grip on Government spend.”
God bless British humor.
If you haven't already, you've *got* to view the "Disasterous logo designs" link at the top of the article for a few more howlers.
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jojo the dog faced boy
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wow, that link is great.....how did those get approved?
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Locomoco
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LOL... that's hilarious.
That's pretty lazy on the designer's part... you're supposed to check for things like that.
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tavaro
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I guess this logo has already been around for awhile.
https://www.ogc.gov.bc.ca/
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Locomoco wrote: LOL... that's hilarious.
That's pretty lazy on the designer's part... you're supposed to check for things like that. i hope it was done intentionally!
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scottygee
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xoconostle wrote: From the article: A spokesman for OGC said: “it is not inappropriate to an organisation that’s looking to have a firm grip on Government spend.” God bless British humor. If you haven't already, you've *got* to view the "Disasterous logo designs" link at the top of the article for a few more howlers. I missed that the first time through...
What the hell is up with this one?
I can't believe that someone didn't take a step back from the screen and think "Gee, this is so wrong!"
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Locomoco
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scottygee wrote: I missed that the first time through... What the hell is up with this one? I can't believe that someone didn't take a step back from the screen and think "Gee, this is so wrong!" Well, NAMBLA wasn't using that icon anymore...
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backtrack
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The big complaint about this one is that it looks like maggie simpson giving someone head.
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Locomoco
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Yow... beyond that, it just sucks! errr... no pun intended...
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backtrack
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Yeah, well, it created a fervor when it was unveiled.
It was meant to be hip and "down wit da kids, init" they failed to realise that the kids didn't grow up in the 80's when day glo was all the rage and Breakin 2 Electric Boogaloo was actually taken seriously.
They very nearly changed it and for a while it looked like they would buckle to public pressure, but in the end the decided it was a well spent £200k...
It sucks...
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Locomoco
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backtrack wrote: they failed to realise that the kids didn't grow up in the 80's when day glo was all the rage and Breakin 2 Electric Boogaloo was actually taken seriously. I remember that week...
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That's really going to be the 2012 logo? I find it hilarious that someone got paid for that. It looks horrible - it took me forever to figure out that those shapes were meant to be 2012!
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Gizzy
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woof +1 that 2012 is soo hard to read
which moronic company designed that?
edit:reminds me of the toy2r logo heh
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Locomoco
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I'm constantly amazed at the amounts paid for some really crappy corporate ID...
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backtrack
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Oh, this is even better... it cost £1.2 million!!! Thats about $2.4 million..
So, yeah, I was about a million quid off... easy mistake.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_2012#Logo
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another good story...travelers insurance dumped their red umbrella from their corporate id a while back only to realize later it was a massive icon and they paid tons of cash to get it back...dummies... 
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enjoipanda
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my personal fave
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