# The Discovery Center Needs a Graphic Artist

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-discovery-center-needs-a-graphic-artist/515316>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [October 27, 2009, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-discovery-center-needs-a-graphic-artist/515316 "2009-10-27T16:24:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-discovery-center-needs-a-graphic-artist/515316/1 "2009-10-27T16:24:27Z")

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The Discovery Center tower ad running here looks like the logo was designed in 1979, then scanned from a copy of a fax and then pasted into an ad that was created without anti-aliasing.

I’m embarrassed for them.

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**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-discovery-center-needs-a-graphic-artist/515316/2 "2009-10-27T17:20:19Z")

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[This is what it looks like](http://www.discoverycenter.cc/graphics/disc4.gif), for anyone who doesn’t see ads.

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**Author:** ![SanibelMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@SanibelMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanibelMan)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-discovery-center-needs-a-graphic-artist/515316/3 "2009-10-27T17:36:41Z")

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Wow. The first thing I thought of when I saw that was the [Torpedo Factory Art Center](http://www.torpedofactory.org/) in Alexandria, Virginia. I see their logo hasn’t changed since we lived in Alexandria, and that was more than 20 years ago.