The hell?

[electricland]

Toronto's new logo. We're fugly! We're meaningless! We're stuck in the '70s!

Ewww.

The blame goes here.

Comments

[archaica.livejournal.com]

that's pretty ugly.

[calebbullen.livejournal.com]

If it's being used to promote U.S. tourism, shouldn't it just say as plainly as possible, "Toronto: Bush can't get you here"?

I'm not saying there aren't other things that Canada is good for but 99% of the Canada references I hear (excepting from Canadians) are in reference to escaping the madness that appears to have overtaken us.

[gurudata.livejournal.com]

Hiho,

Montreal wins! :)

Cu,
Andrew

[lilactime.livejournal.com]

For $2 million, I could have come up with something better. For instance - Toronto - we really, really want you to like us! Or perhaps - Toronto - we are too world class!

[electricland.livejournal.com]

I guess they wanted something that would work for longer than 4 years? You do have those term limits still, right?

Of course, there's always Jeb.

[electricland.livejournal.com]

Yeah... yeah.

What's wrong with our existing logo, dammit? I like it! It's not even that old!

[electricland.livejournal.com]

The more I see what focus groups have wrought, the less good I think they are.

[calebbullen.livejournal.com]

term limits? HA!

We also used to have these things called elections but now they're just an ornamental display for the coronation.

[tylerpistol.livejournal.com]

I first saw that on the graphicdesign community and I thought it was by some not-yet-professional graphic design student asking for critiques on their project. It looks really amateur, and not befitting the happening and amazingly diverse city I fell in love with a few weeks back.

Of course, this criticism come to you courtesy the dude from Winnipeg, whose awful logo, which has compared to a breast and/or an ice cream sundae topped with a cherry.

[raithen.livejournal.com]

ok, seeing the rest of the campaign, I am even MORE scared now.... Plus, girly girl who posted claims "Design is her life" and actually LIKES it? *oig* ::worries for the future of graphic design::

caveat: I am not a designer, I just play one on TV deal with design a LOT in my job.

[metawidget]

Winnipeg's logo looks so Olympic-bid (but better than Vancouver's), and much, much better than Toronto's. Then again, a lot of good places suffer from awful or eyesore visual design... like Honest Ed's, for instance.

[electricland.livejournal.com]

hey now, don't you go dissing Honest Ed's! That's an institution!

[metawidget]

But not an institution of tasteful signage!

[electricland.livejournal.com]

but with tasteful signage it would just be another ginormous dollar store! I like it better this way.