Your Logo Makes Me Barf

The Drake Advantage: Your Logo Gets an F

by Earl of Hurl on September 2, 2010 · 20 comments

This logo has been floating around in our backyard for a few weeks now, and it would be a travesty if we didn’t share it on YLMMB.

Drake University recently launched its new Drake Advantage marketing campaign, along with a logo sure to make potential students feel secure in their decision:

Brilliantly, it’s the first thing that greets visitors to the admissions page.

Read more about how they arrived at this design (thanks to some focus testing) in this Des Moines Register entry.

Tagged as: am I reading this right?, iowa

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Words in a Circle for the Cure

by Earl of Hurl on September 1, 2010 · 12 comments

in Non-Profits

Have we no heart? Cancer/other-horrible-disease fundraiser logos? Really?

Yup. Good causes deserve good logos, good marketing, good branding. These logos are not that. We have enough of a heart not to make jokes at the expense of each individual group’s logo, but nonetheless present for your consideration the following stirring designs:

Tagged as: words in a circle

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Final Em Race – The HHK Strikes Again

by Viceroy of Vomit on August 30, 2010 · 3 comments

in Professional Organizations

Detective: Is the autopsy complete?
Coroner: Yes. I have…bad news.
Detective: No…NO! I thought he’d given up.
Coroner: Not yet. It looks like the Heart Hug Killer has struck again.
Detective: HHK has eluded us for too long. I swear on my life I will track him down!
Coroner: You might want to sign up for the Final Em Race newsletter to get some hot tips.
Detective: Who’s the detective here, huh? You do your job and I’ll do mine!

Tagged as: goatse homage, illegible

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Is it the Age of Aquarius – or Just Bad Design?

by Earl of Hurl on August 27, 2010 · 2 comments

in Design

Barfer Meghan spotted this sign. We’re having a hard time narrowing down our favorite feature: yin-yang bullet points? Hand drawn font? Vibrating color scheme? What appears to be a signature in the lower right hand corner?

Weigh in – what makes you the most nauseous?

Tagged as: in the wild

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Barfy By Design Vol. 2 – 30 Logos, 30 Lost Lunches… BY DESIGN!

by Viceroy of Vomit on August 25, 2010 · 7 comments

in Features

Welcome to Volume 2 of Barfy By Design – terrible logos from companies so uninspired they used one of the most clichéd naming conventions out there: “By Design”.

No time to waste, let’s get to the barf!

: This really speaks to me. It says, “BORRRRRRING.”

: …by design …we are adding some whimsy to a logo for a company that protects you from MOTHERFUCKING HURRICANES. Totally on message.

: I thought stamp works by picking up ink and putting it back down?

: Want to move from America to Texas? We’ve got you covered. Also we anthropomorphized this compass because…um…

: I can’t pick on Cookies by Design too hard, but I couldn’t leave them out, either. Driving by this place made me think to look up all the terrible By Design logos in the first place.

: Don’t cheap out and get Grandma one of those slowpoke wheelchairs, call Mobility By Design and ask for the green ones that are zooming wildly out of control.

: A fouler barfer than I might say that outline of an ear looks like something else entirely.

: Just ugh.

: Not the worst logo we’ve ever had on here, but still an awful name.

: You need to have a chat with your urban planner. You’ve got a house right in front of a skyscraper next to a river on a golf course or some shit.

: I don’t think these fonts are celebrate-y enough, let’s make them wavy!

: “Whoa brah, you’re looking swole.” “Thanks brah, I’ve been going to Body By Design.” “That…that sounds, uh, totally manly, brah. Yeah.”

: Fun is designated for the 11am and 3pm hours only and is to be had for no more than 15 minutes total.

: RUN FOR IT! It’s a Photoshop filter disaster come to life.

: Will you be traveling by plane, bus, or child’s kite?

: I like how they limited it to only 9 or 10 stylistic choices.

: This doesn’t even make sense. I’m too confused to make a joke.

: Inc? Well shit damn I’m going to take this business seriously now.

: Have I used “just ugh” already? I have? Damn.

: “I’d really like to lead the viewer’s eye in every possible direction.”

: Another entry in the unname name division.

: I think I could have designed that tour myself. “Go straight until you hit the mountain.” Ta-da!

: WTF is a brasilby? Is that like a wallaby?

: This logo has more than 10 words in it and I still don’t know what the hell it’s for.

: Catherine’s elegance was by design. Cheryl’s elegance was bought with money she inherited from that bitch mother of hers.

: A better world for everyone but the colorblind.

: People have literally died of boredom at this place.

: Oh good! Your marketing has IMPACT! No one else ever promises that about their marketing services.

: Is that a dude with a sun behind his head or an abstraction of Sauron’s tower?

: They are so proud of this thing they seriously got a registered trademark for it.

Well, that’s it for now. Join us again in a couple of weeks for Volume 3 of Barfy By Design – oh yes, there’s a lot more where these came from. Found your own hometown By Design logo disasters? Send ‘em our way at logos@yourlogomakesmebarf.com.

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Mustachioed Irish-Canadian Taxi Driver Clown Mascot Logo

by Viceroy of Vomit on August 23, 2010 · 2 comments

in Small Business

Can you guess what kind of business this mustachioed Irish-Canadian taxi driver clown mascot represents? If you guessed furniture, then you are a lot smarter than us.