worst logo ever?
 

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?

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

what's wrong with it? I like it.

maybe you just need a bigger version:

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

http://www.highlandmint.com/ProductP...YOTES_LOGO.jpg

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

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

*SHIVER*

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

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...

worst.logo.ever.

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


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

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

LOGO RAGE.

He's right though.

rkmsuf: OK - you win :D

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.

Nice critique. :rolleyes:

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.

This seems to be getting way too serious now.

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?
;)

I'm calling for more LOGO RAGE.

Ask and you shall receive.

what

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.

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

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

My eyes, they burn!

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

That's one pissed Gorton's fisherman.

Okay, let's have some fun:

Good logo or bad logo?

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.

it's a trap

very bad

too impressionistic

looks like a rorschach test

bad

bad

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

In FOF terms, this thread has boomed.

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)?

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?

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.

I thought it was a killer whale surfing a wave.

Is it some outlaw cowboy guy?

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

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.

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

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!

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