Comments on: Homeland Security Logo Contest

Homeland Security Logo Contest

ScottUltra — Mon, 03 Mar 2003 07:32:54 -0800

The Department of Homeland Security logo contest finalists have been announced. Each finalist now has 10 days to alter their designs, based on feedback given by you! [via K10k]

By: Witty

Witty — Mon, 03 Mar 2003 07:37:53 -0800

I like 1, 5, and 8. Number 3 looks like a Boy Scout's patch.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Mon, 03 Mar 2003 07:39:46 -0800

i favor the one featuring the blitzkreig lightning bolts, or the one with the eagle attacking the SUV.

By: elpapacito

elpapacito — Mon, 03 Mar 2003 07:40:39 -0800

I just hope it doesn't turn into a svastika

By: ScottUltra

ScottUltra — Mon, 03 Mar 2003 07:40:58 -0800

Even though the contest is being held by Logo-Contest.com, and not the Department itself, I think there are some interesting concepts mixed in there, even if much of the execution isn't the greatest. According to the site, "submissions of qualifying nature will be passed on to the government"

By: Ryvar

Ryvar — Mon, 03 Mar 2003 07:51:40 -0800

#8, definitely. Lose the star in the Eagle's eye, or make it white, and shape the Eagle's body like a traditional shield (see #7). Boom, golden. The Dept. would still be the earthly embodiment of evil but hey, they'd have a cool non-scary logo.

By: Pollomacho

Pollomacho — Mon, 03 Mar 2003 07:52:25 -0800

1 is the most classic, the stars are a little cheesy and the atom is unnecessary, how about an olive branch instead of the arrows, it is peach we seek with DHS, no? 2 looks like a Captain America badge, not that I don't like that, but it does. 3 looks fake, sharpen up those lines! 4 is kinda boring, please lose the 9-11, its the DHS not the Dept. of 9-11 5 is interesting. 6 looks like a letterhead not a seal. 7, oh, 7, good number 7 was a nice try, but its not a chicken restaurant, its a federal agency, thanks for trying. 8 is a little scary, how about you put a contiguous 48 map in the lock instead of the cheesy 1st grade drawing of a house. 9 see 6.

By: twine42

twine42 — Mon, 03 Mar 2003 07:56:36 -0800

is it just me who's getting oddly nazi-eque feelings about this one?

By: Pollomacho

Pollomacho — Mon, 03 Mar 2003 07:56:45 -0800

that would be peace, not peach, thanks.

By: Shane

Shane — Mon, 03 Mar 2003 07:59:06 -0800

This just screams for Photoshopped entries of our own... quonsar!

By: iamck

iamck — Mon, 03 Mar 2003 08:08:29 -0800

here's my comment: I like the eagle with the red eye carrying off the home. It's very symbolic of the frightening things we are all subject to under "homeland security," similar to my house being carried off by an eagle with blood red eyes.

By: KnitWit

KnitWit — Mon, 03 Mar 2003 08:09:55 -0800

twine42 is it just me who's getting oddly nazi-eque feelings about this one? Damn Skippy, now I'll sit back and wait for someone to say that's what makes that design so fitting.

By: jpoulos

jpoulos — Mon, 03 Mar 2003 08:16:44 -0800

is it just me who's getting oddly nazi-eque feelings about this one? Not just you. Note the eye.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Mon, 03 Mar 2003 08:18:21 -0800

heh! there are more logo's in that directory besides the finalists. they all seem to be numbered "logoxx.gif". collect the whole set!

By: quonsar

quonsar — Mon, 03 Mar 2003 08:21:50 -0800

"logox.gif" for those less than 10.

By: rory

rory — Mon, 03 Mar 2003 08:22:10 -0800

Dear entrants 2, 4, 8, etc. We at the National Eagle Promotion Board were disappointed to see that you had neglected to include an eagle in your recent entry to the Department of Homeland Security Logo Contest. Eagles are an essential part of the fabric of this great nation of ours, especially if it's Eagore-Tex, the all new waterproof eagle-down fabric from EagleCo™. Eagles are hardy, self-reliant, and have 83% less fat than tofurkey and comparable meat-stuffed-with-other-meat products. May we take this opportunity to remind you that eagles are firm and resolute in appearance, come up quite nicely in Adobe Illustrator, and just scream 'security'. (Sorry, that would be a parrot. One that had been trained to scream 'security'... by some noble patriot, no doubt. As you were.) Yours faithfully, Earnest G. Lee President, NEPD

By: samuelad

samuelad — Mon, 03 Mar 2003 08:23:24 -0800

It appears that the site changes the order of the logos on every refresh or page visit, so it would be best to identify the logos by their creators. I, too, like the Eagle attacking the SUV. Hitchcockesque.

By: RubberHen

RubberHen — Mon, 03 Mar 2003 08:24:47 -0800

I typed comments to all in succession or at once and hit send on one and....they all re-set. Clumsy of them or stupid of me.... I liked the lightning one. That was mystifying - and almost scary. The rest - ohhhh boy. I agree about the nazi one... The one that had HOMELAND written on a banner cross the middle looked like it should grace the front of a organic food product box. The nazi eagle looked like it was snatching a big purse too. The one eagle that was facing forward looked like some platypus billed Mummer.

By: grabbingsand

grabbingsand — Mon, 03 Mar 2003 08:24:52 -0800

number 7 has a rainbow in it. the five little dots could represent respect for cultural difference in the face of fear or something, yes? or maybe it's just the department of homeland skittles.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Mon, 03 Mar 2003 08:27:10 -0800

oops. no need to hack URLS: view all entries.

By: jpoulos

jpoulos — Mon, 03 Mar 2003 08:28:25 -0800

The Five Faces of Fear.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Mon, 03 Mar 2003 08:30:13 -0800

this is my favorite.

By: grabbingsand

grabbingsand — Mon, 03 Mar 2003 08:30:29 -0800

Hey kids! Coming soon for PS2 and Xbox!

By: Shane

Shane — Mon, 03 Mar 2003 08:36:00 -0800

(more)

By: machaus

machaus — Mon, 03 Mar 2003 08:37:18 -0800

Security through pancakes.

By: squealy

squealy — Mon, 03 Mar 2003 08:38:32 -0800

Nice one quonsar. Number 28 can only have been done by someone who's taken too much acid.

By: Shane

Shane — Mon, 03 Mar 2003 08:38:35 -0800

Whatta good buncha kids designing these logos.

By: Pollomacho

Pollomacho — Mon, 03 Mar 2003 08:41:58 -0800

The Department of Homeland Security, formerly Kenny Roger's Roasters

By: ook

ook — Mon, 03 Mar 2003 08:57:50 -0800

What says "homeland security" best? Is it an eagle? A patriot? A waving flag? A cascade of stars? Or just a map of the good ol' US of A? Aw, heck, I just can't decide! (On the other hand, the barbed wire patriot gets triple points for unintended irony...)

By: ook

ook — Mon, 03 Mar 2003 09:00:09 -0800

...in a dead heat with the missile gone astray.

By: cinderful

cinderful — Mon, 03 Mar 2003 09:04:41 -0800

Excellent. Now our government is promoting work on spec? Please, devalue my profession even more! thogh, I agree with quonsar - this one wins.

By: thomcatspike

thomcatspike — Mon, 03 Mar 2003 09:42:21 -0800

The slogan, Land of the Free, Home of the Brave for 26 seems worthless by its seal. though, I agree with quonsar - this one wins.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Mon, 03 Mar 2003 10:01:23 -0800

squealy, #28 ALSO promises to DETECT IFNORM.

By: gompa

gompa — Mon, 03 Mar 2003 10:02:14 -0800

Number 28 can only have been done by someone who's taken too much acid. Or, more precisely, someone who's dyslexic and has taken too much acid. I don't want those psychedelic freaks gettin' all hopped up on DSL and gthering ifnormation on me! (On preview: quonsar, you beat me by mere seconds . . .)

By: leotrotsky

leotrotsky — Mon, 03 Mar 2003 10:26:14 -0800

IFNORM detected

By: quonsar

quonsar — Mon, 03 Mar 2003 10:31:08 -0800

IF(NORM('citizen')) { PROTECT(); } ELSE { PREEMPT(); } ENDIF;

By: jalexei

jalexei — Mon, 03 Mar 2003 10:49:18 -0800

#17 is my fav. I know I'll feel safe when we erect a 200-mile-high Lincoln Log wall around the north-central states and herd everyone inside. Even without the green roof, it seems to be protecting against those puffy white ICBM air bursts.

By: ed

ed — Mon, 03 Mar 2003 10:58:38 -0800

IF(LOGO('eagle')) { GOTO ('NORM'); } ENDIF; NORM IF(NORM('bar')=TRUE; { SCREAM ('Noooooooooooooooormmmm!'); } ELSE { STARE('sam') IF('sam')=FALSE THEN STARE('sam')=STARE('woody') STARE ('woody') IF STARE('woody') THEN NORM('hempjacket') } ENDIF;

By: crookdimwit

crookdimwit — Mon, 03 Mar 2003 12:05:03 -0800

#6 is the one that gave me the creepy third reich feeling...

By: signal

signal — Mon, 03 Mar 2003 12:06:33 -0800

(if (= Geek T) (princ "metafilter"))

By: ?!

?! — Mon, 03 Mar 2003 12:44:36 -0800

The one with the eye (#18) obviously has seen the cover of Jennifer Government.

By: sixfoot6

sixfoot6 — Mon, 03 Mar 2003 13:15:50 -0800

Note: while nothing's more American than Fried Chicken restaurants, and Washington DC is surely becoming very mountainous, there was never really a time in U.S. History when we swashbuckled with rapiers.

By: Shane

Shane — Mon, 03 Mar 2003 14:09:01 -0800

there was never really a time in U.S. History when we swashbuckled with rapiers. sixfoot, that's the logo for the Homeland Fencing Team.

By: arto

arto — Mon, 03 Mar 2003 14:15:28 -0800

Number 23, beyond a doubt. Though they should maybe jazz it up with some inner-beveled text, drop shadows and a blingtastic lens flare.

By: kaibutsu

kaibutsu — Mon, 03 Mar 2003 15:30:28 -0800

I find the upside down "United States of America" in #19 amusing. Also a fan of lowly #15; Did they sign Captain America for the job, or something? Finally, with #22, I at fist thought the lock-thingie they use for the A in "Homeland" was a trashcan with a house in it. Which is cool, and all.

By: Taken Outtacontext

Taken Outtacontext — Tue, 04 Mar 2003 08:21:34 -0800

I was about to ask "is irony really dead??" Then I saw all the entries (especially #23).

By: joe_murphy

joe_murphy — Thu, 06 Mar 2003 23:20:48 -0800

ummm, I don't get it. is it?