Weren’t they one of the sponsors of the Pride Parade?
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SNL once did a commercial for a logo design company, featuring Rick Moranis. The cold weather must have scrambled my brains, because I can’t find it with my google fu.
Anyway, the commercial goes on to show how a good logo can work for your company, and shows some successful and not-so-successful designs, before it ends with the design companies own utterly indecipherable logo.
Anyone got a link to it, by chance?
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I watched a video last night that made me re-run the final production credits. It was for something like Dodge Brothers, and the d and b and something else were run together, and the stem of the d rose up, and it looked so much like someone flipping you off with the right hand that I find it extremely hard to believe it wasn’t an inside joke.
10 points for the one in the wheelchair!
I posted this one yesterday in its own thread in MPSIMS, that dropped like a rock.
I saw it on the side of a van - but the only online copy I can find is the Google image thumbnail cache here
It’s for an organisation called Hospitality Industry Training - in the version they had on the van, the red bowtie was dropped a little and was behind the black text, making it look even more like an S
Back to New Jersey. They have some of the worst state signs and logos of any state I can think of.
The two biggest are the ones already mentioned (the turnpike and the parkway), but I always hated the state police logo also. It goes nicely with the worst state police uniforms in the country.
As for some sports teams, how about:
The Quebec Nordiques. What the hell is that, anyway? An elephant hitting a puck? A funky lower case “n” with a hockey stick and puck? No one seems to know.
The Portland Trailblazers. Not exactly hideous, but again, what the hell is it?
The old Vancouver Canucks (a hockey stick in a rink. Wow.)
The old Cleveland Browns “pixie”
The Pittsburgh Penguin mail truck logo.
The Anaheim Mighty Ducks logo. Just embarrassing.
The Montreal Expos logo.
I’ll find more!
Montreal Expos is an M with an ** e** plus b (for baseball).
That makes a letter C. And it’s kind of smiling. I find it clever as hell.
Don’t forget the d.
I’ve always assumed it was a trail blaze–a design painted on or carved into trees so you can find a trail when snow covers the ground. Makes sense, they’re the Trailblazers, right?
I believe that’s a brownie.
They have the shirts at the rest stops. The back says “What Exit?” 
I almost got one for our Doper but figure he has seen them already.
Car manufacturers are among the worst.
Mitsubishi - its logo has nothing to do with the company: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/de/thumb/5/56/Mitsubishi_Logo.svg/567px-Mitsubishi_Logo.svg.png
Hyundai - just fugly: http://www.thelightisgreen.com/Hyundai%20logo_1.jpg
Stutz - just boring: http://www.cartype.com/pics/3071/small/stutz_logo_2.jpg
Fiat - ditto: http://www.topnews.in/files/fiat-logo4.jpg
Renault - meaningless AND boring: http://www.adictoalmotor.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/renault-logo.jpg
Its logo is quite literal, and has everything to do with the company. Mitsu means “three”, bishi are diamonds: Mitsubishi is Japanese for “three diamonds”. And Subaru is Japanese for “Pleiades”, hence the seven stars.
You know, I never noticed that until reading your post. I will take it off the list!
I’ve heard this before, but never confirmed it. Do you know this as fact?
My good deed for the day.