Thanks to Barfer Julianna for sending in this spa’s logo:
She lays it out for us:
Strike 1- Papyrus
Strike 2- Intersecting words
Strike 3- Papyrus (so bad, it counts twice)
papyrus
Barfer Alex sent this logo over quite a while ago.
Papyrus is a wily beast – maybe it doesn’t seem like there anything so bad about this logo. But don’t fall for its seduction! Not only is this a barfy logo, but it’s used by a large landscaping company who works with many big names in the Chicaoland area. A resolution for 2011, Damgaard? Put a bit of money aside for a branding overhaul.
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This is, sadly, just a representative image for all the tanning salon logos using Papyrus, circles, and palm trees. Luckily, this specimen also features an object as a letter.
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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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I’m sorry. Whenever I see images of fertility deity Kokopelli my mind turns to mush and I just hear those tiny mice in Disney’s Cinderella singing “Cinderelly, Cinderelly”.
And so, tiny-mouse song cheering me along, I bring you this collection of Kokopelli logos. You’ll learn that he is a versatile deity who loves bike rides, golfing, and long walks on the beach.
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- Kokopelli starts HIS mornings off, not with flute song, but with a cuppa and a good book.
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- Kokopelli has a busy life as a fertility deity, but he’s never too busy for a good game of golf!
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- Businesses in which Kokopelli may be relevant: music stores. Bands. Guitar shops. Businesses which should definitely not use ol’ Koko: those which represent themselves adbstractly, with exclamation points.
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- That doesn’t look like a safe way to ride at all, Kokopelli.
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- Oh thank god! I was down to my last Kokopelli.
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- This logo says to me, “We are the type of course where Pierce Hawthorne would be a member.”
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- Oh, I see what you did there. Looks like Kokopelli isn’t the only trickster in the house.
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- Every year the Big K looks forward to his annual rafting trip with the guys.
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- I even left a 4th golf course out!
The field of Kokopelli logos is a fertile one – I left out a winery, a brewery, another logo with papyrus (!), a sushi joint, two hotels, another coffee shop, another bike shop, and a nursery. Know of a Kokopelli logo that deserves to be here? Submit it asap to logos@makesmebarf.com.
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It’s true, the right paper product can leave a good first impression.
And yet, there are so many other first impressions on this logo. First impression: cliche-driven name. Second impression: horrible font choice. Twice. Third impression: graphic recreation of teenage boy choking the chicken skyward.
Really. Very impressed.
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