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8 Unfortunate Logos

27 Oct 2007

Arnaud sent me some logos of companies from around the world. Big deal, you’d say. I think these ones are ’special’. Either the designer was really pissed off and wanted to screw over the customer, or the sales rep is a very very good storyteller and convinced the client they would really work. I’m still undecided but I don’t think that any sane person would ever agree upon having his/her business being represented by an unfortunate logo as the ones below. What do you think?

Funny Logos 1

1. Institute for Oriental languages

Funny Logos 2

2. Kids furniture and clothing store

Funny Logos 3

3. Italian fashion brand

Funny Logos 4

4. A pediatric center

Funny Logos 5

5. Dental clinic

Funny Logos 6

6. Drugstore specialized in back injuries

Funny Logos 7

7. Hot-Dog Boutique

Funny Logos 8

8. PC repair store

Thanks, Arns

 
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Posted by Miel Van Opstal in Advertising, Fun, Humor, Marketing

 

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  1. Manuele De Lisio

    October 27, 2007 at 11:29 am

    Well, I wouldn’t call the A-Style logo “unfortunate”, it’s meant be THAT, it’s fun and quite popular in Italy among teenagers.

     

  2. Coolz0r

    October 27, 2007 at 12:14 pm

    I agree it’s meant to be provocative. For a minute I forgot it’s actually a street brand and like a lot of skate-style or board-style brands, indeed they are meant to be this way. Though it fits in pretty well with the others. But you’re right. It’s popular just because the suggestive picto.

     

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  7. Gery

    October 29, 2007 at 10:05 am

    Ich kann nur lachen, diese Logos haben das Thema “Bildsprache” aber richtig verfehlt! :)

     

  8. e-Mino

    October 29, 2007 at 1:08 pm

    And yet another referral to this post. Keep up the good work !

     

  9. Pierre

    October 29, 2007 at 2:38 pm

    Kid sex change!!!
    It’s freaking genius…

     

  10. Newton Calegari

    October 29, 2007 at 7:47 pm

    Hi,
    Fiz uma referencia do seu post lá no meu blog! ;)

    Abraço

     

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  13. spike

    October 30, 2007 at 9:45 pm

    I’ve looked again and again at the A-Style logo and really don’t see the joke.

    I squinted at it, turned it up the other way, and well, nope. I just don’t get it.

     

  14. SEO ROI

    October 30, 2007 at 9:52 pm

    Funny, I was just thinking of something like this. I saw the Department of Nuclear Medicine at my hospital and was like this has potential!

     

  15. Coolz0r

    October 30, 2007 at 11:07 pm

    It’s a couple of people doing it doggy style, spike :-)
    I’ll leave the gender up to you to decide…

     

  16. Manish

    October 31, 2007 at 12:47 am

    Only i want say that these logos funny may not Unfortunate.

     

  17. Todd

    October 31, 2007 at 6:24 am

    That Amadeus logo is very disturbing. : >

     

  18. Gunjan

    October 31, 2007 at 7:39 am

    It is very creative logos. Great

     

  19. Kimota

    October 31, 2007 at 7:50 am

    If the object of the marketing campaign was to get the business branding out and noticed in the world, then they achieved their aim. For me the most ludicrous was the Computer Doctor with the penis mouse. How they didn’t see that, I have no idea. But they got publicity because of it!

     

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  22. yaph

    November 1, 2007 at 10:48 am

    The logo of the pediatric center is more than unfortunate. Who would trust them and let them take care of their child?
    The other logos are quite funny and I can imagine that A-Style is very popular.

     

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    November 2, 2007 at 12:22 am

    I think the eBay one is the funniest.

     

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    November 5, 2007 at 10:43 am

    Great Collection !! :-))

     

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    November 5, 2007 at 11:36 am

    very cool ;D

     

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    November 6, 2007 at 7:46 pm

    well I atually like the dental Clinic one, it´s kind of funny (:-

     

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  41. RC

    November 7, 2007 at 2:28 pm

    I didnt get the joke in the A style logo. Whats so unfortunate about that? The two balls?

     

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  43. Peter

    November 7, 2007 at 5:22 pm

    The Pediatric Center’s logo is very insinuating and disturbing -
    It’s overtly a small child being drawn to the
    sex of the adult person – completely inappropriate.
    I’d categorically reject them for my own children.

     

  44. Dana Loewy

    November 7, 2007 at 11:09 pm

    I teach Business Communication and I would LOVE to share these unfortunate yet oh-so-funny logos with my students. Alas, academic freedom takes a backseat to political correctness and our crazy HR people. No sex in the workplace, period. No touching, no double entendre, either. All that could be interpreted as “hostile work environment” because someone could be offended by sexually explicit material.

    Which means that I can’t show these logos to my kids although the pics say so much about (mis)communication. I will just share them with my colleagues although, technically, I’m not even supposed to do THAT! Yes, this tells you something about the sad state of academia and, worse yet, the workplace in the United States.

     

  45. Dan

    November 8, 2007 at 2:16 am

    This is the reasin why you should hire a professional and not try to do it yourself.

     

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  48. Kommunikationsdesigner

    November 8, 2007 at 3:10 pm

    Irgendwie glaub ich nicht das da alles so unfreiwillig passiert ist. Nicht destotrotz eine traumhafte Liste..

     

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