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Friday Fun: The Grand Old Party's Brand New Logo

This is the 2008 GOP Convention Logo ...

Sure, I could critique the design -- but what's wrong with a rampaging elephant of liberty? And by my cartoon standards, stars in your eye mean you're stunned -- like when you take a beating in the previous election.

But I'll let the comments from this post have their say,

You'd think with today's Larry Craig story, they would not want an elephant bending over in Minneapolis.

Are those prison stripes?

somewhere there's a graphic designer running for their lives

There are two kinds of logos -- the amorphic symbols which take on meaning (nike) and the ones created in order to encapsulate the "feelings" or the concept of the company/organization. This is what happens when you go for number 2 and fail. miserably.

Design Disconnect: No, It's Just Ugly

In a recent bit of news, London officially, errr graphically, threw their hat in the ring for the ZOR Olympics... The ZOR olympics being for worst logo design ever.

Sure, within hours, thousands of Britons had already begun signing a petition demanding a new logo, but London 2012's organising committee chairman Seb Coe had a clear, concise, direct message to those dissenters:

This is the vision at the very heart of our brand, It will define the venues we build and the Games we hold and act as a reminder of our promise to use the Olympic spirit to inspire everyone and reach out to young people around the world.

It is an invitation to take part and be involved.

We will host a Games where everyone is invited to join in because they are inspired by the Games to either take part in the many sports, cultural, educational and community events leading up to 2012 or they will be inspired to achieve personal goals."

I applaud Mr. Coe's sound reasoning. I mean, just how can you argue with ad-speak laden drivel?

Olympics Minister Tessa Jowell added,

This is an iconic brand that sums up what London 2012 is all about - an inclusive, welcoming and diverse Games that involves the whole country.

Oh, now I get it. It's diverse, inclusive and welcoming -- like an abstract painting. You're not supposed to understand it. That's just the cogent message London needs to send. Go London!

Now I also know why they took our logo away. Obviously we violated the rules and let someone over the age of 9 design our logo:

Seth says, "If you are paying money to someone who talks like this, may I suggest you stop? And if you work for someone who talks like this, time to look for a new gig."

Can I get an Amen?

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Update (6/6) : Looks like bad design can hurt people. How glad are you that you aren't on this design team?

19 Common Web Design Mistakes

Josiah Cole is good people. His list of 19 Things NOT to Do When Building a Website is just angst-ridden enough to make good link-bait. And it's all spot-on.

"4. If your website is ALL Flash, FIRE your web development company, and if you made it, add it to your portfolio under “Useless web projects I’ve done” and start over."

If I were going to add a no. 20, it would be "No text-dumps, make content easily digestible, and use bullet points." Of course, to make his list I'd need some capitalization and the odd expletive.

EXCLUSIVE: Google Phone Pictures Leaked?

The killer product has arrived! Sure, the iPhone seemed like the MUST-HAVE product of 2007, until today! Touch screen? duh. MP3 player? Duh. GPS? DUH. Web browser? DUH! Camera? DUHHH! Phone? ...oh.

Everything the iPhone will be, and MORE! Only the Google team could deliver this level of user interface! See the photo after the jump! (no black turtle neck or inspirational introduction required)