this is a private blog for my design students and assorted other survivors. Tro blemakers all
this is a private blog for my design students and assorted other survivors. Tro blemakers all.
this is a private blog for my design students and assorted other survivors. Tro blemakers all.
this is a private blog for my design students and assorted other survivors. Tro blemakers all.

Wednesday, November 05, 2008









I've been trying to imagine the process, the preliminary
design briefs, early concept
meetings ....

(I bet they had lattes and chocolaty croissants)

The genesis of this cruel, visually illiterate, idea impoverished cabal.

The meetings where they sat about on uncomfortable designer chairs
and discussed this logo, the meetings where they agreed
that it was, irresistible - brilliant, absolutely the best one.

Those wankers chose, decided, and who concluded the business are now
infamous, and will probably remain, resolutely invisible (who can
blame them ?) a committee of amateurs, administrators
and sycophants,

you know, ...the ones who have conspired to impose
this new, "improved", and somehow, impossibly,
intergalactically insipid civic logo upon us.

Who are they ? (secretly, I think some of them work where I do)

The immediate cost to the innocent citizen was roughly
$500,000.00, but the long term effect, will be incalculable.

A branding Chernobyl ladies and gentlemen, whose half-life
of embarrassment ,will be roughly 10,000 years. About
the same length of time it will take us to get over the big O.

Ahhh, here's the file now, ohh look... it's likely the
same folks, who approved these other graphic amusements
.

You know, it really does look like somebodies sister or cousin, or
boyfriend designed the thing. Someone who went to desktop
publishing summer camp. Where's my bloody hammer ......







Montreal's new "groovy" logo .... aaaagggrrrhhhHHhhi ,
it's the one below












my eyes are bleeding .... aaagghhhhh...

10 comments:

sean said...
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Radio Free Pescado said...

the last comment was removed, not because it was wrong, but because it was a trifle, err graphic.If you'll excuse the pun. Sorry Sean ;-)

Zarine said...

just another reason for me to hate montreal and it's fabulously ugly designs and architecture!

Ramzi Houdeib said...

Come on...it has some nice buildings haha, Granted not many but some do stand out.

Now about the logo... you are all looking at the negative side only. Shame on you. look at the bright side, with an abomination like that, it's enough to scare criminals away! Ole!

Zarine said...

i also heard that our national currency will be changed into smarties.

Ramzi Houdeib said...
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Mr. Mo' Or Less said...

The logo looks like something you'd see on an "Air Mexico" plane. =/

Andrea said...
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Andrea said...

I wonder how this guy would feel about our oh so fabulous logo (feel the sarcasm in my text.)

here

this is lizbeth for you mr.pescado ;P

Gabrielle Turcotte said...

After shaking my head about this for a month or two, I think I've come across the "designer's" (gasp... realy? Should I even call him/her/it that?) inspiration. Check it out:

http://www.designer-daily.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/museum-of-london.jpg

http://www.logoorange.com/logo-design-ugly.php

Granted they're not much classier, but a serious step up from Montreal: "land of lego".