Came across these on the Twitternet the other day and loved both.
The first is by Intelligence in Social Media and it’s a must watch:
The second is from the always-great AdFreak and, inspired by the recent horrible redo of The Gap’s logo, it’s a look at 30 other graphic failures.
Common sense prevents anyone else from wearing the damn thing.
On behalf of actual Mongolians everywhere I must protest this gang’s use of both the name and the imagery.
Actual Mongolians — left– are a lot cooler than the biker gang. And they don’t wear sunglasses. That’s because they are tougher than that.
The Idaho State Vandals football team is “dumping the letter “I” from the buttocks region of players’ new pants following a season-opening 70-0 loss to the Arizona Wildcats.” The buttocks region? Actually there was a small version of the logo at left that was literally over the anus on the pants. In no other sport but football would it have even been noticed.
BTW, that headline is an out and out falsehood. They had logo issues before the loss … but I couldn’t resist.
Logoblink has an excellent and informative display of Presidential election logos from 1960 to the present. I say informative because it is quite clear that graphically as well as politically most candidates in the last 48 years have been interchangeable.
Still, I know who I’m voting for.
Comedy Central has even more details on Battlestar Gallactica vs. the actual candidates here.
And speaking of voting for lame characters, turns out Brit PM Gordon Brown lost his latest election to NONE OF THE ABOVE. As mentioned previously Madame Tussaud’s wax museum had put it up for a vote as to whether or not Brown should be included in the collection. Well, “83.8 percent of voters, drawn from museum visitors and online supporters, gave Brown the thumbs down. Some 5,308 people told Madame Tussauds not to bother, while 1,025 people (16.2 percent) said he should be immortalised in wax.” Yeah, but I bet the Supreme Court will rule him in.
First go here to generate a name.
Mine: SnapZone
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Logo courtesy of The Web 2.0 Logo generator.
Then go here to generate a mission statement:
“We strive to completely network multimedia based deliverables such that we may continue to efficiently promote effective infrastructures because that is what the customer expects”
Then go back to the first link to generate some media:
Snapzone Inc secures 1 million in Venture Capital funding.
Silicon Valley startup, Snapzone Inc, has raised 1 million dollars in series A financing from an unnamed angel investor. Snapzone Inc promises to revolutionize the Internet and change the way people look at new media.
“We’re taking a 24/7 approach to new media. Unlike our competitors, we plan on synergizing social networks with social bookmarking, podcasts and yes, even the blogosphere. When someone makes a vlog about their pet rabbit, our name will appear somewhere!
– Snapzone Inc CEO
If that’s not enough you can find other Web 2.0 biz generators at
Now stand back as the money rolls in.
Quoth Reuters:
Looks much more Austro-Hungarian Empire, if you ask me.
The Freedom-2 company has come up with new pigments that can disappear with a single laser treatment, according to an article in the British weekly New Scientist. "The inks have already been approved by the USFood and Drug Administration for use in drugs, cosmetics, food and medical devices. They are readily absorbed by the body and for that reason have until now never been used in tattoos."
The latest buzz marketing efforts can put tattoos on marketers who will now be confident they can get them removed when it's time to change campaigns. Or this will become the ultimate in loyalty cards. Instead of carrying around 8 million more pieces of plastic in your wallet, just show your tatoo to get the discount. Hopefully this will mean the end of stories about so-and-so auctioning off the rights to some company to put a tattoo on his/her body. Those got old real, real fast.
These are tattoos for whimps or the terminally indecisive. Let me tell you, Collateral Damage has a really ugly tatoo on his left shoulder and I LIVE WITH IT!!! Someday I'm gonna get it covered up with something nicer — but it will be permanent baby! None of this ooooh I don't like it anymore and I'm going to get it zapped crap. I'm OLD SCHOOL. Which is another way of saying "STUPID."
Collateral Damage 