BAD CASINO LOGOS: Your logo makes me barf

Terrible logos: we love design

Like most relationships based on love, we feel compelled to endlessly nag, critique, denigrate and chastise the object of our affection. Your Logo Makes Me Barf is a website for designers with a sense of humor. We serve up the best worst logos from around the world with a healthy dose of sarcasm. Our audience is a mix of creative industry workers, professional designers, aspiring designers, and a general public pulled in by too-insane-not-to-share design disasters.

Bad company logos: our posts

We post at least three times a week, sometimes more, hopefully not less. Many of our posts are submitted by barfers (aka readers) like you. We’re committed to original content that you haven’t seen anywhere else and try and only pick on logos that have been used in a commercial context.

Worst casino logos: we gamble

So you created a new online casino. Big deal. How to actually attract gamblers now? A good product maybe, a splendid Online Casino Bonus or a shit ton of games? None of the above! Just create a shitty logo and it will go your way. Trust us, the worse the logo, the more players joining rapidly.

Poorly designed logos: our authors

YLMMB has multiple authors, and yes, we use pseudonyms. Not everyone has a sense of humor and we’d rather not be harassed IRL by people who can’t take a joke. Some of us are graphic designers, some of us aren’t. We’re all design lovers, creative types and media addicts. We spend way too much time on our computers. We’re mostly based in the flat, middle parts of the United States.

The Real Barfy Logos of New York

Barfers, we need to talk. About something important: reality television. Reality TV is the newest way to make a living doing almost nothing, and you have to love that. How else would you explain the existence of this person? Or this t-shirt? This is the heart of the issue. What’s better than coining a catchphrase, then hawking merchandise of said catchphrase? Only saying something stupid and planning to hawk merchandise WITHOUT putting time, energy, or money into the graphic design. Like this person: Alex McCord of Bravo’s The Real Housewives of New York. Alex says something stupid in the series’ latest episode. 30 seconds in, she declares fellow housewife Sonja Morgan is a THUG IN A COCKTAIL DRESS: Luckily, Alex is a graphic designer, so her merch is ready and standing by! LORD. It’s a who’s who of bad fonts. What kind of body fits that dress? It’s like Betty Boop with implants. Maybe we can get the thug out of the cocktail dress and into a graphic design class. Just an idea. Don’t get all aggressive on me, I’M JUST BEING REAL.

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Butts by Design

Alex sent along this little gem. WELCOME BACK, BY DESIGN! WE MISSED YOU! Yes, one of our most infamous, hated trends, by design. A fail all on its own. Though, I must also make the observation that no matter how tempting making a logo out of initials might be, if you initials then form a butt, you have failed. Butts by Design. Cut and print.

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Don’t Mind If We Do

It’s the only way that we can handle this logo, really. To follow the instructions that it’s laying out for us. GET IT? Poor barfer Sara passes this every day on the way to work. If only Sara could be stoned too. Then the utter obviousness of this logo might be tolerable. GET IT? IT’S A BEE ON A STONE! BSTONED!

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Your Logo Needs Anti-Aliasing HELP

When creating a mark for your design company do not — I repeat: DO NOT — do anything to bring Internet Explorer to mind. Like, you know, including the IE logo in your own. Thanks to Barfer Eli.

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Full Service Dental

Thanks, Mina! I’ve gotta get to Village Family Dental Spa. There is no waiter at my dentist’s office. There are no suits at my dentist’s office, they all wear SCRUBS. How low brow. Also, as Mina points out, what do they do, serve your rotten tooth to you after they pull it out? For your dining pleasure? Yum. I’m booking my appointment as we speak.

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An Ounce of MIND NUMBING TERROR

This little gem gave one of our barfers, who remains anonymous for their own protection, nightmares as a child. HOLY SHIT! In Mansfield/Ontario/Richmand county, viruses don’t just get you sick. They chew on GLASS AND NEEDLES! How are we possibly going to stand a chance? We can’t even really prevent them, because they are EATING OUR PREVENTION! I’m scurred.

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