worst logo ever?

[Raven]

I'm not a hockey fan, so this is the first time I've seen it. But how can a professional sports franchise possibly think this logo was even remotely good?







http://www.canucks.com/images/top_left.jpg

[SackAttack]

Well, come on. They're the Canucks. It's not like the nickname gave them a lot to work with.

[Zippo]

what's wrong with it? I like it.

[Zippo]

maybe you just need a bigger version:

http://www.sportslogos.net/images/Hockey/NHL/VAN_208.gif

[JeffR]

It's not even the worst Indian-art inspired logo in the NHL:

http://www.highlandmint.com/ProductPics/PHOENIX_COYOTES_LOGO.jpg

[Pumpy Tudors]

Oh, please. The worst NHL logo in the past 20 years has to be that Gorton's fisherman thing that the Islanders used. :)

[sachmo71]

Someone bust out that 80's Blues jersey with the trumpets on it.

*SHIVER*

[Shepp]

It looks like they had a contest for the fans to design a logo and some 11 year old won.

[AlexB]

Not a sports logo, but the worst logo ever has to be the old English motorway service restaurants 'Happy Eater': a pac-man with it's finger down its throat to try and puke up the atrocities they served...

http://www.littleredboat.co.uk/HappyEater2.png

[rkmsuf]

worst.logo.ever.

http://img104.imageshack.us/img104/4388/worstlogoever3sk.jpg

[sovereignstar]

There ain't shit wrong with that logo. Might not be your style, but it's technically sound.

It looks like they had a contest for the fans to design a logo and some 11 year old won.

I'd like to see some of your graphic design work. Send a piece or two to thegades AT gmail.com

[Pumpy Tudors]

Damn, sov, did you design that logo yourself or something?

LOGO RAGE.

[cuervo72]

He's right though.

[AlexB]

rkmsuf: OK - you win :D

[sovereignstar]

Damn, sov, did you design that logo yourself or something?

No. For someone to toss out the idea that a 10-year old could design that is pretty ludicrous. Pretty fair insult to the design industry.

[Desnudo]

No. For someone to toss out the idea that a 10-year old could design that is pretty ludicrous. Pretty fair insult to the design industry.

So is the logo.

[sovereignstar]

So is the logo.

Nice critique. :rolleyes:

[Desnudo]

You have to admit the logo is really ugly. Not really the fault of the designer, since he's just translating the vision from the team, but still ugly.

[Pumpy Tudors]

This seems to be getting way too serious now.

[JonInMiddleGA]

So is the logo.

You should be ashamed of yourself ... delivering the definitive "Match Game" answer so early in the thread, what's left to look forward to now?
;)

[Pumpy Tudors]

[...] what's left to look forward to now?
I'm calling for more LOGO RAGE.

[General Mike]

Someone bust out that 80's Blues jersey with the trumpets on it.

*SHIVER*

Ask and you shall receive.

http://www.nhluniforms.com/1990s/Images/BluesNeverWorn.gif

[Pumpy Tudors]

http://img500.imageshack.us/img500/3609/nyislanders957se.gif (http://imageshack.us)


what

[Daimyo]

It is a pretty shitty logo. I'm sure its technically sound (no way a 10 yr old could do it) but that doesn't mean its a good logo.

[sovereignstar]

I'm calling for more LOGO RAGE.

Find another decent logo, offer no constructive criticism, and ye shall receive thy LOGO RAGE.

[Pumpy Tudors]

Maybe I'm thinking too much here, but I had pretty much accepted that the whole "11 year old" thing was a conscious exaggeration.

[Warhammer]

My eyes, they burn!

[sovereignstar]

My eyes, they burn!

Your Grizzlies are gonna get the ass-kicking of a lifetime come this Sunday.
That is all.

[Ksyrup]

http://img500.imageshack.us/img500/3609/nyislanders957se.gif (http://imageshack.us/)


what
That's one pissed Gorton's fisherman.

[sovereignstar]

Okay, let's have some fun:

Good logo or bad logo?
http://the-dkbl.com/outlaws.jpg

[Ksyrup]

I'm trying hard to figure out what it is. First impression - the Rolling Stone Tongue, which has been cut out and placed on a pedestal on someone's mantle. Which would explain why it is black.

[Pumpy Tudors]

it's a trap

[st.cronin]

very bad

too impressionistic

looks like a rorschach test

[rkmsuf]

bad

[Desnudo]

bad

[Pumpy Tudors]

Haha, aren't you guys gonna feel silly when sovereignstar tells us that it's good!!

[rkmsuf]

it's a trap


http://img349.imageshack.us/img349/4260/akbar8ao.png

[st.cronin]

In FOF terms, this thread has boomed.

[cuervo72]

Okay, let's have some fun:

Good logo or bad logo?
http://the-dkbl.com/outlaws.jpg

That's actually very similar [edit: ok, not very in implementation, but similar in thought] to the clip-artish logo I borrowed for Telluride, but more stylized. Is it a women's football logo (one would be surprised at the logos some of these teams have, there seems to be a bit of investment there)?

[cuervo72]

Dola - and style-wise, I would object to the white outline around the front/top of the hat, as it doesn't appear anywhere else in the logo. For that matter, the white only appears in the had and not the handkerchief or anywhere else...

[rkmsuf]

Dola - and style-wise, I would object to the white outline around the front/top of the hat, as it doesn't appear anywhere else in the logo. For that matter, the white only appears in the had and not the handkerchief or anywhere else...


what hat? what hankerchief? is that what that is?

[sovereignstar]

That logo was designed by Paul Yuan (the guy who works with Gary on TPB). I'm not sure if a team can claim it as their own or if it was made just for his portfolio.

I really like his work though and I'll PM you a link to his site if you want it.

Edit: Thinking about it some more, I bet that one is for the San Antonio team in TPB, duh.

[Desnudo]

I thought it was a killer whale surfing a wave.

[MikeVic]

Is it some outlaw cowboy guy?

[JeffR]

The Canucks logo is really a pretty obscure reference to anybody who's not familiar with local native artwork. It's a fairly literal representation of how the coastal Indians depict killer whales:

http://www3.telus.net/Coast_Salish_Journey/ernorca.jpg

What a killer whale has to do with the name "Canucks" is another question entirely.

[sovereignstar]

I figured most guys knew a little about Northwest Indian art with the Seahawks logo and all. But you might be right.

[dawgfan]

The sample posted by sov is a bad logo - it just doesn't read very well. Too stylized, and as proven by multiple responses, most people can't figure out what it's supposed to represent.

The Canucks logo is bad as well - it's too busy, trying to do too much. The PNW native american artwork part is fine, but unlike the Seahawks logo which is clear and unfettered with any cleverness, this one tries to tie the whale in with the "C" and the idea it's "breaking out". There are too many colors, too much distraction in the overall lines of the artwork and it just doesn't read well at a small size.

[Warhammer]

I thought it was a killer whale surfing a wave.

I thought it was a killer whale with a flying keel. :eek:

[Warhammer]

Your Grizzlies are gonna get the ass-kicking of a lifetime come this Sunday.
That is all.

Yeah, we may be 2-0, but we don't have the talent to maintain that. We'll be lucky to keep it within 14 points by the end of the game.

That said, I think we might surprise a bit this year. Hickman finally learned some good formations, and Markel knows most of them as well. That gives us quite a bit of options. Either way, it is better than the ones I had to work with last year!

[Maple Leafs]

Remember when kids could draw their favorite team's logo on their pencil case? You know, without having a degree in modern art?

[cthomer5000]

Okay, let's have some fun:

Good logo or bad logo?
http://the-dkbl.com/outlaws.jpg
Bad. It took me far too long to figure out what it as. It looks like the grim reaper kind of flailing his arm and leg around at first. It took me at least 10 seconds to get the "Outlaw" looking type.


I've been on the fence about the Canucks logo for some time. I can see both sides of the argument.

[Glengoyne]

I'm not a professional designer, by any stretch of the imagination, nor even an amateur, but that seems to be among the worst high profile logos I've ever seen.

It may not look, to a professional, like a ten year old could have done it. But for all of its professional glory it falls flat. It is overly detailed, and the details are small. I don't know if that is two criticisms or one. It is very busy, and what is with the broken top of the "C"? Does this logo have a message beyond "Cannucks"? If it does, I'd suggest that that message is cloudy at best.

So to a lay person this certainly looks like, maybe not a 10 year old, but a Jr. higher could have put it together.

[Raiders Army]

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers' old logo was pretty bad.

[Glengoyne]

As for the "test" logo.

Bad Logo. Too stylized. You really can't identify what it is. Perhaps with the associated name, it would make more sense.

At first I thought it might be an animated "A", throwing something, albeit with a towel wrapped around its waist.

Once someone said "hat", I thought it might be a blind-folded bird wearing a cowboy hat.

[Ksyrup]

I don't see a hat. Unless it's modeled after Donald Duck's hat.

[rkmsuf]

I don't see a hat. Unless it's modeled after Donald Duck's hat.

Give me the Gorton's guy any day.

[SFL Cat]

Canucks logo = ugh
Arlington Pediatric logo = decent...not my style...not what I would have done with it, but decent.
Islanders logo = meh
sov's mystery logo = ugh. I haven't a clue what it was supposed to be. My first thought was some kind of shark or killer whale.

And I agree with cuervo, some of those women's pro football league logos are better than some of the newer stuff in the NFL.

[cthomer5000]

Once someone said "hat", I thought it might be a blind-folded bird wearing a cowboy hat.
LOL. I hadn't seen that possibility, but now i do and it's hilarious.

[Ksyrup]

Arlington Pediatric logo = decent...not my style...not what I would have done with it, but decent.
Four out of 5 NAMBLA members give it a http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~fof/forums/images/icons/icon14.gif.

[Desnudo]

Canucks logo = ugh
Arlington Pediatric logo = decent...not my style...not what I would have done with it, but decent.
Islanders logo = meh
sov's mystery logo = ugh. I haven't a clue what it was supposed to be. My first thought was some kind of shark or killer whale.

And I agree with cuervo, some of those women's pro football league logos are better than some of the newer stuff in the NFL.

You do realize what's implied in the Arlington Pediatric logo?

[SFL Cat]

You do realize what's implied in the Arlington Pediatric logo?

I guess if you want to see a BJ, that's what you'll see. Not the first thought that occured to me, however.

[Butter]

Four out of 5 S&M NAMBLA members give it a http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~fof/forums/images/icons/icon14.gif.

Fix'd.

[Fidatelo]

The "test" logo reminds me an awful lot of the Ottawa Renegades logo, which I also think is bad:

http://www.molson.com/images/logos/logo_ottawa.gif

My personal opinion is that if I have to struggle to comprehend a logo from a distance, it's too complicated. Just because a logo is a neat picture doesn't mean it's a good logo, they don't go hand-in-hand. My favorite logos, while somewhat boring, are almost always the "stylized letter" variety, like the NY Giants or GB Packers or whatever.

[21C]

I'm not a hockey fan, so this is the first time I've seen it. But how can a professional sports franchise possibly think this logo was even remotely good?







http://www.canucks.com/images/top_left.jpg
It's better than these previous versions of their logo.
http://www.sportslogos.net/Site/images/teams/primaries/283.gif
http://www.sportslogos.net/Site/images/teams/primaries/281.gif

[Schmidty]

The Canucks logo is really a pretty obscure reference to anybody who's not familiar with local native artwork. It's a fairly literal representation of how the coastal Indians depict killer whales:

http://www3.telus.net/Coast_Salish_Journey/ernorca.jpg

What a killer whale has to do with the name "Canucks" is another question entirely.

I live 30 minutes south of Vancouver and know all about the native artwork and everything else around here. It's still an unbelievably awful logo. But I guess it fits my feelings of the team.

[Fidatelo]

It's better than these previous versions of their logo.
http://www.sportslogos.net/Site/images/teams/primaries/283.gif
http://www.sportslogos.net/Site/images/teams/primaries/281.gif
I disagree. That first logo is actually pretty cool. The second, while lame, is still somewhat better than the new one.

[Tasan]

Isn't the 'test' logo the logo for the Dallas Desperados of the Arena League?

[Rizon]

Some of these are probably mentioned in this thread I didn't read

http://www.whateversports.com/acatalog/wckpatsold.jpg

http://www.teleportrait.com/LogoServer/football/TampaBayBuccaneers76.GIF

http://www.sportsfanfare.net/images/large/MC-NHL-AMD-200.JPG

PS: The "Ducks" has got to be the stupidest name for a sports team. Nothing strikes fear into me as a duck does.

[MikeVic]

Some of these are probably mentioned in this thread I didn't read


http://www.teleportrait.com/LogoServer/football/TampaBayBuccaneers76.GIF



Is he winking???

[Glengoyne]

Is he winking???

Argh!



Oh and I actually like the old Tampa and New England Logos. To me they're classic.

[Glengoyne]

LOL. I hadn't seen that possibility, but now i do and it's hilarious.
Not much scarier than a blind-folded bird.http://dynamic.gamespy.com/%7Efof/forums/images/smilies/smile.gif

It really did strike my funny bone as well.

[Dutch]

Argh!



Oh and I actually like the old Tampa and New England Logos. To me they're classic.

The Old Bucs logo was cool! Naysayers be damned.

[Zippo]

one of my favorite sports logos:

http://www.sportslogos.net/images/College/NCAAn-r/NC_2682.gif

even the alternative looks great:

http://www.sportslogos.net/images/College/NCAAn-r/NC_2876.gif

[21C]

http://www.teleportrait.com/LogoServer/football/TampaBayBuccaneers76.GIF

Count me as another that likes the old logo - I've been a Bucs fan since 1978. I often play a game of NFL2K5 with the old orange unis.

If you want to see a STUPID logo which makes me puke every time I see it is the one for the local basketball team in the national league. I'm sure it was drawn by a kid.
http://nbl.com.au/_content/club/pirates-logo.gif
Arrrgh!!

[Peregrine]

There are some really terrible (and funny) hockey logos here:

http://www.bushparty.com/htms/hockeylogos.htm

[Icy]

worst.logo.ever.

http://img104.imageshack.us/img104/4388/worstlogoever3sk.jpg


LOL yeah it can't be worst for that pediatric center.

[Wolfpack]

Zippo wins worst logo contest, hands down. :D

Actually, my sister is a Carolina alum and she hates the ram addition to the NC logo. She prefers the more vanilla plain NC look.

Also that second UNC logo is just a knock-off of the Struttin' Wolf (which itself may or may not be a ripoff of I think Bucky the Badger doing the similar strut).

I also think the Ducks thing is horrible. People should have started selling off Disney stock after what Disney decided to do when they got their NHL franchise and named it after a kids movie. What's more they decided to be stupidly unconventional with the name since they are officially, "The Mighty Ducks of Anaheim", rather than the "Anaheim Mighty Ducks". Either way, it's crap.

[Joe Canadian]

Sorry, the Browns win this championship...

[Shepp]

It looks like they had a contest for the fans to design a logo and some 11 year old won.

There ain't shit wrong with that logo. Might not be your style, but it's technically sound.

No. For someone to toss out the idea that a 10-year old could design that is pretty ludicrous. Pretty fair insult to the design industry.

A few month ago I watched a special on 20/20 or Nightline, I don't remember which. In the segment they took peices of art from a kindergarden finger painting class and displayed it at a moder art show. Next, they brought in local art critics to pick out the "professional" stuff from the "ametuer" stuff. None of the experts picked them all out, if I remember correctly the rate was about 50/50. My point is, that the critics always pointed out specific syles that the artis used and in essence how "technically sound" the paintings where. Even when they were created by a five year old.

I'd like to see some of your graphic design work. Send a piece or two to thegades AT gmail.com

The Next time I post my opinion I'll have to make sure that I clear my credentials through Sovereignstar.

[Desnudo]

I guess if you want to see a BJ, that's what you'll see. Not the first thought that occured to me, however.

It's blatantly obvious. I found it very funny. I don't think I looked at it wanting to see a little kid giving an adult head.

[Honolulu_Blue]

All you need to do to make any logo ultra-cool is to add a black ring around it. If you add black outlining to everything else on the uni it also will make your team ultra hip!
Not only hip, but fearful and imposing. And then when you switch to all black unis.... LOOK OUT!

[rkmsuf]

so what was the first thought then?

[Pumpy Tudors]

Isn't the 'test' logo the logo for the Dallas Desperados of the Arena League?
They're fairly close, now that I think about it (a day after you posted this).

http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/1528/dallasdesperados6bc.gif (http://imageshack.us)

[Desnudo]

so what was the first thought then?

The outline of the man's arm as it reaches down to push the child's head towards his groin, in a completely non-sexual manner, is elegant and restrained.

[Huckleberry]

From an above link:

http://www.bushparty.com/img/hockeylogos/deninv64.gif

[Zippo]

do you guys like this at all? Feel free to use it for your fantasy team and whatnot since I just whipped this up for absolutely no reason at all.

http://members.shaw.ca/pyuana/georgiagreatapes.png

[MikeVic]

do you guys like this at all? Feel free to use it for your fantasy team and whatnot since I just whipped this up for absolutely no reason at all.

http://members.shaw.ca/pyuana/georgiagreatapes.png

Is there a football on the ape's chest or something?

[ISiddiqui]

I don't think there is anything wrong with the Canucks' logo. I mean it isn't as craptastic as the NY Giants one. Couldn't they come up with something a bit more inventive?

[Zippo]

Is there a football on the ape's chest or something?
yeah, I have a weird thing of doing things too abstractly, that's why I made this logo here to see what the general consensus is, so that I can hopefully improve and fix my problems.

[MikeVic]

yeah, I have a weird thing of doing things too abstractly, that's why I made this logo here to see what the general consensus is, so that I can hopefully improve and fix my problems.

It just looks to me like a partial football is ON his shirt, not an actual football it's carrying.

[bhlloy]

http://www.sportslogos.net/Site/images/teams/primaries/281.gif

I love that old Canucks logo. Reminds me of the good old NHL and what a complete lunatic Gino Odjick was. That was a pretty handy Canucks team that got beat by the Rangers in the 94 finals correct?

Around about that time the league started going downhill IMO, but that is a complete different topic.

[weinstein7]

The Canucks logo is really a pretty obscure reference to anybody who's not familiar with local native artwork. It's a fairly literal representation of how the coastal Indians depict killer whales:

http://www3.telus.net/Coast_Salish_Journey/ernorca.jpg

What a killer whale has to do with the name "Canucks" is another question entirely.

As I recall, at the time that they came up with this logo, they were owned by Orca Entertainment, or some such.

[sterlingice]

I love that old Canucks logo. Reminds me of the good old NHL and what a complete lunatic Gino Odjick was. That was a pretty handy Canucks team that got beat by the Rangers in the 94 finals correct?

Around about that time the league started going downhill IMO, but that is a complete different topic.
I like the old down skate, too. I even have a black Canucks jersey with that one on it.

SI

[lytic]

rkmsuf wins, but I thought I would post this:

http://sjsharkie.dagnabit.org/images/hartford_whalers_1996.gif

[weinstein7]

Oh, the whale! Gotta love 'em. While on the subject of that franchise, I think the Carolina Hurricanes' logo with the incorrect flag signals deserves a shout-out for terrible logos.