# Those silly Graphics Designers **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 2, 2008, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-silly-graphics-designers/436022 "2008-02-02T21:28:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![hekk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/50afbb/32.png) [@hekk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hekk)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2008, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-silly-graphics-designers/436022/1 "2008-02-02T21:28:13Z")
The [irony](http://img128.imageshack.us/img128/210/imag0016bwr2.jpg), it burns. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2008, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-silly-graphics-designers/436022/2 "2008-02-02T22:02:11Z")
Heh, now all they need is to add a symbol for a spanner… ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2008, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-silly-graphics-designers/436022/3 "2008-02-02T22:08:16Z")
I don’t get it. ---
**Author:** ![hekk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/50afbb/32.png) [@hekk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hekk)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2008, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-silly-graphics-designers/436022/4 "2008-02-02T22:11:04Z")
Look at the tagline… Then mentally make the gears turn. The irony hits you then. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2008, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-silly-graphics-designers/436022/5 "2008-02-02T22:17:42Z")
[QUOTE=Lobsang] I don’t get it. [/QUOTE] If you imagine gear 1 rotating clockwise it makes gear 2 rotate counterclockwise making gear 3 rotate clockwise which makes gear 1 rotate counterclockwise and then problems begin. ---
**Author:** ![Charger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df788c/32.png) [@Charger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charger)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2008, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-silly-graphics-designers/436022/6 "2008-02-02T22:22:37Z")
That is hilarious. I wonder if it is deliberate. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2008, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-silly-graphics-designers/436022/7 "2008-02-02T23:38:23Z")
I’m wondering if it was disconnected in the original draft and someone, perhaps someone not on the design team, forced a change because it wasn’t all interconnected. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2008, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-silly-graphics-designers/436022/8 "2008-02-02T23:42:55Z")
Or maybe we’re simply not seeing the third dimension, where two of the cogs aren’t touching at all. i.e. they are al different distances from the viewer. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2008, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-silly-graphics-designers/436022/9 "2008-02-02T23:46:43Z")
It gets more publically embarrassing than that. The [obverse design](http://www.taxfreegold.co.uk/images/1997twopoundsprooffirstbimetallicrev240.jpg) on the back of the British 1997/1998 £2 coin, represents the then **nineteen** EU member states, as cogs, interlocking in a ring. Some said it was a subtle anti-EU message. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2008, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-silly-graphics-designers/436022/10 "2008-02-03T00:23:04Z")
[QUOTE=jjimm] It gets more publically embarrassing than that. The [obverse design](http://www.taxfreegold.co.uk/images/1997twopoundsprooffirstbimetallicrev240.jpg) on the back of the British 1997/1998 £2 coin, represents the then **nineteen** EU member states, as cogs, interlocking in a ring. Some said it was a subtle anti-EU message. [/QUOTE] I think you’ll find that the obverse of that coin depicts Her Majesty the Queen, as does most every other British coin. The design you mention is the reverse. Silly numismatist! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2008, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-silly-graphics-designers/436022/11 "2008-02-03T02:04:14Z")
Bugger. Explains why it took so long for me to find it while doing an image search on “£2 coin obverse”. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2008, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-silly-graphics-designers/436022/12 "2008-02-03T02:12:39Z")
Oh man, that’s hilarious. Do their trains actually move, or do they sit there and heat up until they explode?