Most ugly logos ever

[Dimentio]

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_MPemHbygbCQ/TJh5GrYpHxI/AAAAAAAAJG0/_44vHrqM-nM/s1600/kultur-28gubbe_61062751.jpg

Top this.

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_F1tPmbifnfQ/SWA56b7yUCI/AAAAAAAAA-Q/5djfnreI1c8/s400/london2012.jpg

This is fucking hideous.

[Dimentio]

What does it even stand for?

[Quail]

I just searched "ugly logo" on google, and quite a few came up. I'm not too bothered about logos. The thing that bothers me is when signs have bad grammar or spelling.

[Sentinel]

:lol:

For those who don't know that's the logo of New Democracy, an anti-immigration populist (but not actually fascist like the Sweden democrats) party that sat one term in the Swedish parliament once. I was trying to look for their song, which was even more hilariously pathetic than the logo, on youtube without success the other day.

[DaComm]

http://thinningtheherd.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/anaheim_ducks.gif

The Anaheim "Mighty Ducks", before they changed their logo and name to simply the "Ducks".

[Tavarisch_Mike]

What does it even stand for?

Olympic games in London 2012.

[Dimentio]

:lol:

For those who don't know that's the logo of New Democracy, an anti-immigration populist (but not actually fascist like the Sweden democrats) party that sat one term in the Swedish parliament once. I was trying to look for their song, which was even more hilariously pathetic than the logo, on youtube without success the other day.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yCJv2TdLMg&feature=related

This one?

[Vanguard1917]

What does it even stand for?

Something about Lisa Simpson performing fellatio.

[Tavarisch_Mike]

http://www.heatingoil.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/shell-logo-t.jpg

Never understod what sea shells got to do with petrolium.

[Dimentio]

Olympic games in London 2012.

I know, but it ought to symbolise something, graphically speaking?

[Widerstand]

Every single one that uses Comic Sans.

[Sentinel]

This one?


Probably, thanks. Youtube is blocked here (at my work) but I'll check it out.

[Dr Mindbender]

http://www.heatingoil.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/shell-logo-t.jpg

Never understod what sea shells got to do with petrolium.

The original business that became shell petrol actually started off by selling decorative sea shells.


I know, but it ought to symbolise something, graphically speaking?
this is what happens when you put overpaid untalented executives together with too much time on their hands in a focus meeting with a copy of photoshop.

[gorillafuck]

:lol:

For those who don't know that's the logo of New Democracy, an anti-immigration populist (but not actually fascist like the Sweden democrats) party that sat one term in the Swedish parliament once. I was trying to look for their song, which was even more hilariously pathetic than the logo, on youtube without success the other day.
Were they led by Eddie Munster?

[Dr Mindbender]

I think this is a fucking monstrous logo. It is owned by the french multinational call centre that has a chokehold on the labour market in this town.

http://www.tp-tec.com/uploads/tx_templavoila/globe_logo.gif

[4 Leaf Clover]

basicly all NBA teams logos ?

except timberwolves, they owned
http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/MINNESOTA_TIMBERWOLVES_LOGO_1.jpg

[Dimentio]

Were they led by Eddie Munster?

Nah, rather Abbot and Costello.

http://livingbycw.blogsome.com/images/bertian.jpg

[Sentinel]

Were they led by Eddie Munster?


I'm not sure who that is. The leaders were two major league morons; count Ian Wachtmeister and Bert Karlsson, the latter of whom the logo vaguely reminds of. I think it's supposed to look like him, although he is actually even uglier in person.

As a matter of fact he is one of the ugliest persons that I've ever seen.

[Kotze]

Please don't read any opinions about the organisations themselves into the following.

The logo of the 4th International (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/Logo_of_the_Fourth_International.svg) and this one used by RAAN (http://anarchistnews.org/files/pictures/sicklea.jpg) are shite (RAAN also employs other logos, and with good reason). Compare them with the logo of the DPRK's ruling party: You have a hammer representing the workers, a sickle representing peasants, a brush representing intellectuals. They have a monument with a giant concrete hand holding the hammer, a giant concrete hand holding the sickle, a giant concrete hand holding the brush.

Now imagine a slightly different monument: You have a giant concrete hand holding a hammer, a giant concrete hand holding a sickle, and finally a giant concrete hand holding...

a) a number (4th International)
b) a letter of the alphabet (RAAN)

Is this fucking Sesame Street or what. I could maybe tolerate a logo where different tools form a letter or a number, but not this.

Another problem with these 2 logos is how their elements are entwined. The point of having entwined elements is to communicate 2 things, equality among the parts represented by the elements (an element that is completely on top of another one invites the interpretation that the former is dominating over the latter) and unity. But this only works if the combined elements also form a harmonious shape, otherwise it looks like something that shouldn't be entangled and you have to arduously sort it out, like a case of massive cable spaghetti.

So all what these 2 logos end up communicating is intellectual incoherence.

The flag of the GDR (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a1/Flag_of_East_Germany.svg) also sucks, too many details.

When designing a logo, consider that it should be easy to reproduce (stencil) and very recognisable, that means a version that only uses 2 colours (that number includes the background) and no gradients (fuck gradients, seriously) has to be identifiable from a blurry photo showing somebody wearing a sweater inherited from grandpa with that logo.

[gorillafuck]

I'm not sure who that is.
He was a TV character who was a kid vampire in a family of monsters.

http://www.markymunster.com/markymunster210.jpg

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

The logo of the 4th International (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/Logo_of_the_Fourth_International.svg) and this one used by RAAN (http://anarchistnews.org/files/pictures/sicklea.jpg) are shite (RAAN also employs other logos, and with good reason). Compare them with the logo of the DPRK's ruling party: You have a hammer representing the workers, a sickle representing peasants, a brush representing intellectuals. They have a monument with a giant concrete hand holding the hammer, a giant concrete hand holding the sickle, a giant concrete hand holding the brush.

Now imagine a slightly different monument: You have a giant concrete hand holding a hammer, a giant concrete hand holding a sickle, and finally a giant concrete hand holding...

a) a number (4th International)
b) a letter of the alphabet (RAAN)

Is this fucking Sesame Street or what. I could maybe tolerate a logo where different tools form a letter or a number, but not this.

That's only a problem if you limit your monuments to hands holding things. I think that RAAN symbol for example would look good as a massive front-piece to a suitably impressive building, rendered in bronze. But then I have a bit of a thing for enormous faceless constructs built in a quasi-Soviet agitprop style.

[bcbm]

http://www.revleft.com/vb/revleft/misc/logo1.gif

[Q]

A lolwut logo:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Anarcho-swastika.svg/165px-Anarcho-swastika.svg.png

This is also not the most pleasing to the eye:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Anarcho-communism.svg/230px-Anarcho-communism.svg.png

[Martin Blank]

This is also not the most pleasing to the eye:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Anarcho-communism.svg/230px-Anarcho-communism.svg.png

It looks like the sickle has walrus tusks (or needs a trip to the dentist), and is trying to eat the hammer.

[EvilRedGuy]

http://logodesignerblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/image-241.jpg It can mean two things.

[Quail]

This is also not the most pleasing to the eye:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Anarcho-communism.svg/230px-Anarcho-communism.svg.png
I don't mind that one actually. Although now that Miles pointed it out, I can totally see the walrus tusks.

[Honggweilo]

http://www.ahamburgertoday.com/images/20060221FeboExt-thumb.jpg

its just scream "dont eat here".. which is probably the right message concidering the food :p

[bailey_187]

http://www.ahamburgertoday.com/images/20060221FeboExt-thumb.jpg

its just scream "dont eat here".. which is probably the right message concidering the food :p

i ate here when i went amsterdam, it was good. I mean, burgers, in a vending machinE?!?!:thumbup1:

[Nolan]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ef/Federalist.gif

[Os Cangaceiros]

i ate here when i went amsterdam, it was good. I mean, burgers, in a vending machinE?!?!:thumbup1:

wow. the level of consumerism in the U.S. isn't even that dystopian.

[Pirate Utopian]

FEBO always reminds me of this.
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[bailey_187]

wow. the level of consumerism in the U.S. isn't even that dystopian.

Whats wrong with vending machine burgers? (other than healthwise)

[Nolan]

wow. the level of consumerism in the U.S. isn't even that dystopian.

Yeah, instead of vending machines we have a McDonald's every 20 feet.

[Os Cangaceiros]

Whats wrong with vending machine burgers? (other than healthwise)

It's just the idea of a vending machine giving you something that's already synonymous with the epitome of consumerized food (aka hamburgers).

[Widerstand]

It's just the idea of a vending machine giving you something that's already synonymous with the epitome of consumerized food (aka hamburgers).

Consumption is more consumerist when a machine is involved? What the..

[Os Cangaceiros]

It just seems weird to me.

[Dr Mindbender]

http://logodesignerblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/image-241.jpg It can mean two things.

It reminds me of bumlove.

[Q]

It just seems weird to me.

It's a real Dutch thing which you don't see anywhere else:

http://www.flexscreen.nl/files/img/testfebo.jpg

That said, we don't have a FEBO here in the south, just Smullers and a local friture having a "wall".

[Q]

http://logodesignerblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/image-209.jpg
:lol:

[Q]

Woops:

http://logodesignerblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/image-231.jpg

More brilliant logo's: http://logodesignerblog.com/bad-ugly-worst-logo-designs/

[synthesis]

Not really ugly - the opposite, actually:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a8/Sweden_Democrats-2006logo.png/250px-Sweden_Democrats-2006logo.png

A fascist party with a flower as its logo? Only in Sweden...

[Magón]

http://skullcandyhesh.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/skullcandy.jpg

[Quail]

http://logodesignerblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/image-209.jpg
:lol:
How the fuck did the person who designed this not think about how it could look?

[John "Eh" MacDonald]

OHHH!! it looks like a priest and a...ummm... giving...aaaaaaaaah... wow...

whats that logo for anyway.:lol: