Please stop. Stop naming your company “Thing-We-Do/Make By Design”. It’s not cute. It’s not clever. It means nothing. It’s boring. AND EVERYONE DOES IT. Don’t believe me? Check out Volume 1 and Volume 2 of Barfy by Design. We’ve got at least two more in the queue. And those are just ones we’ve found on the Internet. Heaven forbid we start flipping through small town phonebooks. By our estimates, companies are being formed with the words “By Design” in their names at the rate of 18,364 per SECOND, and it’s been increasing steadily since 1982. Scientists predict that by 2012, there will be more companies named “[Something] By Design” than PEOPLE ON THIS EARTH. Loyal readers, we need your help. Please help us extinguish this blight upon our planet by submitting each and every terrible By Design logo you can find in your own backyards to logos@yourlogomakesmebarf.com. Provide whatever context or links you can. Remain strong. We’ll get through this together…by design.
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- “I see a lot of horrible bridesmaid’s dresses in this line of work, which inspired me to have an obnoxious, purple, textured logo.”
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- Go towards the light. Only there will you find peace from this terrible logo.
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- A logo so nice it made us barf twice.
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- Always shift by design. Shifting by accident can ruin your transmission.
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- This is a graphic designer’s logo. Yes, I’m serious.
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- This dude does two things: hypnosis, and something else. I’ll let you know what the other thing is when his fucking flash site finishes loading.
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- I uh…yeah. Wow. A) Poltery. B) There is a fucking sheep on your logo. C) The capital-I in that font makes me want to rage. D) That entire font makes me want to rage.
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- Also a website/graphic designer. *Shudder.*
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- If the landscaping thing doesn’t work out this company name and logo could be sold off to a creationist’s organization.
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- *See previous joke.
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- This looks like it belongs over an image of a black-gloved hand holding a knife on a cheap murder mystery paperback.
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- TRIPLE BOOMERANG OH MY GOD.
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- Do nightmares count as memories? If so, congrats, you’ve succeeded.
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- E.G. Barf
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- Even frigging MULE FARMERS are using this stupid naming cliche. Stop it. Stop stop stop stop stop.
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- To be fair, if you’re into faux finishing enough to hire someone to do it for you, your aesthetic sense might already be busted.
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- …this name… …doesn’t even…. …make sense… …by design…
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- Nothing says elegant spa like a logo that resembles a tramp-stamp.
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- I wish I could “De See” this.
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- I would expect nothing less from a Fashion Design institute program in South Dakota.
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- Why mess with greatness?
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- Literal Logo Choices of the Year Award goes to: Copper By Design. Copperplate? Check. Made of copper? Double-check. Oh yeah.
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- Classy.
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- I’m not going to lie. I don’t know what Multi-Variate Data Analysis. What I do know is them’s some science-y sounding words, meaning that anything script is an extremely inappropriate font choice.
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- Tastes like pixels.
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- “Concrete is pretty exciting, we’d better go with a really bland logo so as not to overstimulate people.”
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- Something…something is wrong with your pencil, man. You might want to get that looked at.
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- The shapes. Oh, those shapes. (They make play forts BTW, not real castles. I know, I was disappointed too.)
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- The designer pulled this one from his notebook full of custom-designed Star Trek insignia doodles.
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- The art is by design. The typography is by MS Paint.
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You just brightened my day, thank you for this website!
WOW….by design
What are the scary ghost face things in that jewelry store window?? THAT shit’s gonna give me nightmares!