“Hey assholes, why don’t you pick on someone your own size, huh? These small businesses are the backbone of America and making fun of them makes you a TERRORIST!” – Summary of everyone that’s ever yelled at us for criticizing small business logos.
Yeah, well, we wish the backbone of America would straighten up and get some decent marketing. It’s an integral part of running a good business, and these logos really aren’t helping anybody.
1. Weird hand which may be made up of manicurist’s tools. It’s a smidge too serial-killery for my tastes.
2. Papyrus.
3. Name fail. They fess up to having a “snappy” name on their website, but this doesn’t not absolve them of a total name fail.
We caught this on Lamebook last week. It’s not like us to recycle content – we’re “lucky” enough to find ample shitty logos on our own and through the Barf Bag. This one just called loudly enough that I knew it needed more love.
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We often receive submissions of bad website headers like this.
They aren’t really logos, but people have certainly chosen to represent their business poorly when they made a banner that’s little more than the business’ name typed out in a crappy font.
Today, we received a logo that is a bad website header brought to life. Thanks to an anonymous cell phone submission for the hot mess that is ASH Services, LLC’s actual logo mashed up with a disparate font and weird spacing choices.
I count: Papyrus, a drop shadow, and…just what is that new font? It’s got a jungle-themed birthday party invitation feeling that I’m finding very festive.
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Do we REALLY need to make a clever joke about this one? Some logos simply barf on themselves.
Thanks for the submission, Trevor!
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Why settle for simply beating your substance abuse problem when you can merge with other people into one GIANT ALL POWERFUL SOBER PERSON? After all, misery loves company.
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Barfer Charity sent us a good old fashioned WTF logo last week. Nothing complex to the joke, just a weird fucking mascot terrifying children and businesspeople alike, tragically paired with a stock jungle-y font that doesn’t make sense for the business.
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Thanks to Barfer Amy who brought Weird Al Yankovic’s twitpic find to us:
At first, I was sad: this isn’t a logo, just a sign. But upon further investigation I found that the Austin Motel puts their dong all over everything:
And does, in fact, use it as a logo.
I showed it to the Viceroy of Vomit:
Earl of Hurl: “Look! Weird Al posted this hotel’s sign and it looks like a penis!”
Viceory of Vomit: “No. It doesn’t look like a penis. It is a penis. That is a penis-sign.”
Happy Monday.
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