Your logo makes me barf.
October 12, 2009 12:54 PM Subscribe
This post was deleted for the following reason: the site is dead, it fell on its head. plus it maybe wasn't so awesome to begin with, possibly? -- jessamyn
Would it be weird of me to point out that this FPP is less than ideal?
posted by atbash at 1:02 PM on October 12, 2009
posted by atbash at 1:02 PM on October 12, 2009
this website makes me want to barf.
posted by Lutoslawski at 1:02 PM on October 12, 2009
posted by Lutoslawski at 1:02 PM on October 12, 2009
[your logo // this website // this fpp]
ATE MY BALLS
posted by elr at 1:04 PM on October 12, 2009 [1 favorite]
ATE MY BALLS
posted by elr at 1:04 PM on October 12, 2009 [1 favorite]
It's all downhill after F I S H TELEMETRY
posted by fleetmouse at 1:05 PM on October 12, 2009
posted by fleetmouse at 1:05 PM on October 12, 2009
yeah, kind of a lol-people-who-can't-afford-art-direction vibe. Like making fun of comic sans -- yes, the cat lady who runs the local flea market didn't go to Parsons.
posted by condour75 at 1:08 PM on October 12, 2009
posted by condour75 at 1:08 PM on October 12, 2009
This website makes me barf, because the Avon Old Farms Winged Beavers and the Watersmeet Nimrods have awesome logos and awesome names.
posted by Your Time Machine Sucks at 1:09 PM on October 12, 2009 [1 favorite]
posted by Your Time Machine Sucks at 1:09 PM on October 12, 2009 [1 favorite]
They had one post that was basically the same as the Awful High School Mascots FPP we had last week.
Can't they go find their own crappy logos instead of getting them off other people's blog posts?
posted by dunkadunc at 1:13 PM on October 12, 2009 [1 favorite]
Can't they go find their own crappy logos instead of getting them off other people's blog posts?
posted by dunkadunc at 1:13 PM on October 12, 2009 [1 favorite]
Your logo did not make me barf. However, you logo did indeed make several other people barf, and that, in turn, caused me to barf as well. None of us shall forget your fine establishment anytime soon.
posted by metagnathous at 1:14 PM on October 12, 2009
posted by metagnathous at 1:14 PM on October 12, 2009
I can't decide if the tractor feed paper is ironic. Aren't we in the Post-Post-Ironic (Pre-ironic) stage again?
posted by LD Feral at 1:14 PM on October 12, 2009
posted by LD Feral at 1:14 PM on October 12, 2009
HA HA! YOU! YOU WHO DID NOT TAKE DESIGN CLASSES! YOU ARE SO FUNNY WITH YOUR LOW BUDGET AND YOUR LACK OF HAVING GONE TO DESIGN SCHOOL! YOU ARE SO FUNNY! I LAUGH AT YOU AS I WOULD LAUGH A CRIPPLED PERSON IN A CRIPPLED WHEELCHAIR! YOU ARE SO VERY PATHETIC THAT I MUST CREATE A BLOG, THAT THE WORLD MAY KNOW THAT YOU DID NOT STUDY DESIGN AS I HAVE! HA HA!
posted by hifiparasol at 1:21 PM on October 12, 2009
posted by hifiparasol at 1:21 PM on October 12, 2009
See I think it's great when a logo just sings, like the Fedex Logo, with its nicely contrasting colours and its hidden arrow. Look at it. It has visual significance and beauty but is also so recognizable and simple that it is basically depthless. That's why they pay somebody the big bucks. It's perfect, right?
But there is a huge gray area between that kind of logo and this website's logos. Logos of like, most downtown sushi places, really serious espresso bars, alternative bookstores, etc. Logos that are fairly competent, you know? Visual platitudes. You will run into thousands of these in your life and instantly forget them, they will make your visual world no richer and no poorer, or maybe a little poorer, maybe a little more jaded by visual monotony and so not as sensitive, but if so not in a significant way that you will actually notice day to day.
And given that grey area, I am really glad for the bottom of the pile represented on this website. Because the really terrible logos are sometimes unforgettable.
I live on a street with many of those businesses where nobody ever goes and you wonder how they stay open. One is a website company with three logos (so they are immediately breaking one of the first rules of corporate design, ubiquity). One is based on a drawing of a vellum scroll. Another has like a cheesy mannerist banner thing going on. One is a guy holding a huge pencil.
So you have three separate logos, each based on a clipart cliché from the 90s (probably partly created by MeFi's own twoleftfeet), each signifying that this web designer is going to I guess draw you the perfect website? Like, on vellum?
And thank God for that. I smile every time I come home from work and pass that guy's store and again fail to walk in and order a website.
posted by voronoi at 1:23 PM on October 12, 2009 [5 favorites]
But there is a huge gray area between that kind of logo and this website's logos. Logos of like, most downtown sushi places, really serious espresso bars, alternative bookstores, etc. Logos that are fairly competent, you know? Visual platitudes. You will run into thousands of these in your life and instantly forget them, they will make your visual world no richer and no poorer, or maybe a little poorer, maybe a little more jaded by visual monotony and so not as sensitive, but if so not in a significant way that you will actually notice day to day.
And given that grey area, I am really glad for the bottom of the pile represented on this website. Because the really terrible logos are sometimes unforgettable.
I live on a street with many of those businesses where nobody ever goes and you wonder how they stay open. One is a website company with three logos (so they are immediately breaking one of the first rules of corporate design, ubiquity). One is based on a drawing of a vellum scroll. Another has like a cheesy mannerist banner thing going on. One is a guy holding a huge pencil.
So you have three separate logos, each based on a clipart cliché from the 90s (probably partly created by MeFi's own twoleftfeet), each signifying that this web designer is going to I guess draw you the perfect website? Like, on vellum?
And thank God for that. I smile every time I come home from work and pass that guy's store and again fail to walk in and order a website.
posted by voronoi at 1:23 PM on October 12, 2009 [5 favorites]
I thought this would be a funny site skewering big companies and their terrible logos, but mocking local dance studios and trinket shops for using Word Art? Really, that makes for a site that improves the world?
posted by mathowie at 1:26 PM on October 12, 2009
posted by mathowie at 1:26 PM on October 12, 2009
And he didn't even notice the unintentional Goatse!
posted by wcfields at 1:27 PM on October 12, 2009
posted by wcfields at 1:27 PM on October 12, 2009
The source material needs to be accompanied by higher-quality snark for a blog like this to work. See, e.g., regretsy.
posted by brain_drain at 1:30 PM on October 12, 2009 [1 favorite]
posted by brain_drain at 1:30 PM on October 12, 2009 [1 favorite]
I think we've got a false dichotomy going here. Bad design is not the exclusive province of unschooled yokels, nor is good design sure to follow naturally from an arts education. This is especially true where things like logo design are concerned (as compared with, say, realist painting). One of the interesting things about commercial design work is that self-taught designers can be really, really good.
posted by killdevil at 1:32 PM on October 12, 2009 [1 favorite]
posted by killdevil at 1:32 PM on October 12, 2009 [1 favorite]
I read it as your LEGO makes me barf. I was slightly disappointed.
posted by synthetik at 1:36 PM on October 12, 2009
posted by synthetik at 1:36 PM on October 12, 2009
Many of the high school logos were obviously the result of student design competitions, and it looks like many of the business logos were first draft, small business, somebody's-brother-drew-this-because-we-need-a-logo creations. I'm all for poking fun at silly logos, but when you're fishing around in that territory for material to ridicule and backing it up with stylish 1998 web design, maybe it's time to re-evaluate why you need a web site.
I'm still hoping this is some attempt at meta-irony that's just too deep for me to understand.
posted by Avelwood at 1:42 PM on October 12, 2009
The only thing that would improve this logo would be the use of this typeface.
posted by Ratio at 1:44 PM on October 12, 2009
posted by Ratio at 1:44 PM on October 12, 2009
Oh come on, this is kind of charming. You might expect better from a national chain, but for a small single-location kind of place, it's just about perfect.
posted by echo target at 1:52 PM on October 12, 2009
posted by echo target at 1:52 PM on October 12, 2009
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