# Yet another "hideous logos" thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 6, 2013, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-hideous-logos-thread/660274 "2013-06-06T05:55:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2013, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-hideous-logos-thread/660274/1 "2013-06-06T05:55:48Z")
I just discovered one of the most hideous logos I’ve ever seen: for ["GnG Music Instruction](http://gngmusicinstruction.com/newyork/)." What have you seen lately (that you wish you hadn’t seen)? ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2013, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-hideous-logos-thread/660274/2 "2013-06-06T06:08:07Z")
Holy cow that’s bad! ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2013, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-hideous-logos-thread/660274/3 "2013-06-06T06:12:13Z")
I’ve always been a big fan of the work they do at [Logos Galore](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeTaWZLtDP4). ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2013, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-hideous-logos-thread/660274/4 "2013-06-08T22:18:28Z")
I wouldn’t say that GNG sign is so much bad as it is “looks like it was designed by a 12 year old the first time he used MS Paint”. As for bad logos, hard to beat the Lisa Simpson blowjob logo for the 2012 olympics. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2013, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-hideous-logos-thread/660274/5 "2013-06-08T23:02:04Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > As for bad logos, hard to beat the Lisa Simpson blowjob logo for the 2012 olympics. The Office of Government Commerce logo gives it a run for its money - they spent £14,000 on a redesigned logo that consists of just the three letters O, G and C, squished together. When rotated through 90 degrees, it looks like a man holding his erect penis. [http://blogs.birminghampost.net/business/ogc-logo.jpg](http://blogs.birminghampost.net/business/ogc-logo.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2013, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-hideous-logos-thread/660274/6 "2013-06-09T14:40:15Z")
[Kids Exchange](http://akroot313.andrewkeir313.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/kids-exchange.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2013, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-hideous-logos-thread/660274/7 "2013-06-09T14:53:29Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > The Office of Government Commerce logo gives it a run for its money - they spent £14,000 on a redesigned logo that consists of just the three letters O, G and C, squished together. When rotated through 90 degrees, it looks like a man holding his erect penis. > > [http://blogs.birminghampost.net/business/ogc-logo.jpg](http://blogs.birminghampost.net/business/ogc-logo.jpg) Looks more like a snowman with an erection. > [@buddha\_david](#): > > [Kids Exchange](http://akroot313.andrewkeir313.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/kids-exchange.jpg) Holy shit! How could they not have seen that? ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2013, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-hideous-logos-thread/660274/8 "2013-06-10T01:05:42Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > The Office of Government Commerce logo gives it a run for its money - they spent £14,000 on a redesigned logo that consists of just the three letters O, G and C, squished together. When rotated through 90 degrees, it looks like a man holding his erect penis. > > [http://blogs.birminghampost.net/business/ogc-logo.jpg](http://blogs.birminghampost.net/business/ogc-logo.jpg) It’s more like a snowman playing with his carrot. Bonus new sexual innuendo for casual conversation. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2013, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-hideous-logos-thread/660274/9 "2013-06-10T01:13:27Z")
You probably won’t find this as bad as I did. A place called the Tiger Lily used to have a logo on the store sign that had a day lily. I always passed the store and thought the idiots don’t even know what they named their store after. They changed it after a number of years. ---
**Author:** ![Hershele\_Ostropoler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e47c2d/32.png) [@Hershele\_Ostropoler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hershele_Ostropoler)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2013, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-hideous-logos-thread/660274/10 "2013-06-10T02:10:51Z")
It’s called [Locum](http://www.locum.se/). (SFW) Now, drop that into lowercase, put it in a sans-serif font. So far we have the logo on the site. But that’s the current one, after they realized the problem with using a heart in place of the O ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2013, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-hideous-logos-thread/660274/11 "2013-06-10T02:44:13Z")
> [@Hershele\_Ostropoler](#): > > It’s called [Locum](http://www.locum.se/). (SFW) > > Now, drop that into lowercase, put it in a sans-serif font. So far we have the logo on the site. But that’s the current one, after they realized the problem with using a heart in place of the O I think the logo with the heart was just for a special Christmas campaign back in 2001 or thereabouts. But, yeah, WTF were they thinking? ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2013, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-hideous-logos-thread/660274/12 "2013-06-10T04:09:42Z")
> [@Harmonious\_Discord](#): > > You probably won’t find this as bad as I did. A place called the Tiger Lily used to have a logo on the store sign that had a day lily. I always passed the store and thought the idiots don’t even know what they named their store after. They changed it after a number of years. Yeah, I had to look that up. It looks like there are day lilies that look like tiger lilies, so I would not have gotten that. It appears the [nomenclature](http://gardening.about.com/od/perennials/qt/Lilies-versus-Daylilies.htm) has gotten muddled: > [@](#): > > There is an orange daylily that has also naturalized along roadways. Many people refer to these daylilies as tiger lilies, but the weren’t the plant originally designated as the tiger lily. These orange roadsides lilies have their own, less flattering common name - ditch lilies. When I think “tiger lily,” I just think of an orange lily, but apparently tiger lilies need to have the brown speckles (I think?) ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2013, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-hideous-logos-thread/660274/13 "2013-06-10T04:51:48Z")
I ran across this through Facebook spam, actually. It’s a small, local professional organization. [Harrisburg Young Professionals](http://www.hyp.org/) I look at that and I’m just “What is…huh?” I mean, you can parse it pretty easily (there’s a horizontal “H” at the bottom, and a kind of two-headed “Y” and “P” at the top), but it’s just…yuck. Horrible design. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2013, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-hideous-logos-thread/660274/14 "2013-06-10T16:32:06Z")
> [@Harmonious\_Discord](#): > > It’s more like a snowman playing with his carrot. Bonus new sexual innuendo for casual conversation. Like the lyrics for Full Frontal Christmas: Well, hello man, take the coat off that snowman For Frosty’s being to thaw. He’ll grin and bear it, look at his carrot. Sing it: Fa la la la la la la. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2013, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-hideous-logos-thread/660274/15 "2013-06-10T19:30:15Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > The Office of Government Commerce logo gives it a run for its money - they spent £14,000 on a redesigned logo that consists of just the three letters O, G and C, squished together. When rotated through 90 degrees, it looks like a man holding his erect penis. > > [http://blogs.birminghampost.net/business/ogc-logo.jpg](http://blogs.birminghampost.net/business/ogc-logo.jpg) No need to rotate [this](http://www.davidairey.com/images/logos/apc-logo.jpg). They’ve moved and [changed logos](http://www.babyou.com/upload/uploads/article/20110121life12.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Hershele\_Ostropoler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e47c2d/32.png) [@Hershele\_Ostropoler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hershele_Ostropoler)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2013, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-hideous-logos-thread/660274/16 "2013-06-10T20:32:30Z")
> [@Martian Bigfoot](#): > > I think the logo with the heart was just for a special Christmas campaign back in 2001 or thereabouts. Could be. I saw it on Twitter this past weekend, but that proves nothing as to when (or whether, really) it was actually used. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2013, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-hideous-logos-thread/660274/17 "2013-06-10T22:57:43Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > I ran across this through Facebook spam, actually. It’s a small, local professional organization. > > [Harrisburg Young Professionals](http://www.hyp.org/) > > I look at that and I’m just “What is…huh?” I mean, you can parse it pretty easily (there’s a horizontal “H” at the bottom, and a kind of two-headed “Y” and “P” at the top), but it’s just…yuck. Horrible design. Looks like a bad stick figure drawing of a piranha plant from Super Mario Bros. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2013, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-hideous-logos-thread/660274/18 "2013-06-11T00:48:21Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > Looks like a bad stick figure drawing of a piranha plant from Super Mario Bros. Or a fish skeleton from a Sylvester cartoon. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2013, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-hideous-logos-thread/660274/19 "2013-06-11T19:20:32Z")
The Daewoo symbol looks like a jockstrap to me. [![](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_wYqnoC0R_pw/R-rYpHzCSjI/AAAAAAAAB1I/5I_uYInMGtU/s320/daestap.JPG) ](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_wYqnoC0R_pw/R-rYpHzCSjI/AAAAAAAAB1I/5I_uYInMGtU/s320/daestap.JPG) ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2013, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-hideous-logos-thread/660274/20 "2013-06-11T19:22:57Z")
> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#): > > The Daewoo symbol looks like a jockstrap to me. > > [http://3.bp.blogspot.com/\_wYqnoC0R\_pw/R-rYpHzCSjI/AAAAAAAAB1I/5I\_uYInMGtU/s320/daestap.JPG](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_wYqnoC0R_pw/R-rYpHzCSjI/AAAAAAAAB1I/5I_uYInMGtU/s320/daestap.JPG) Now I can’t unsee that. Thanks. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-hideous-logos-thread/660274.md?page=2)