The Great and Less Than Great Canadian Logo Thread - Page 41

MolsonExport · #**801** Posted **Aug 23, 2022, 5:51 PM**

Hawrylyshyn · #**802** Posted **Aug 23, 2022, 5:59 PM**

Wait, the logo for a team called the "Rockets" is a Dragon...?

O-tacular · #**803** Posted **Aug 25, 2022, 1:16 PM**

Had to share this here: https://digitalsynopsis.com/design/w...ed-redesigned/

How the hell were these logos ever approved in the first place. Especially the pediatric care and safe place! Mama’s baking and Fire Prevention Products could both be called Fire Crotch.

O-tacular · #**804** Posted **Aug 25, 2022, 1:18 PM**

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Originally Posted by Hawrylyshyn

Wait, the logo for a team called the "Rockets" is a Dragon...?

It’s Ogopogo I think.

MolsonExport · #**805** Posted **Aug 25, 2022, 3:02 PM**

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It’s Ogopogo I think.

for sure. Perhaps they should have had a box of pogos for their logo. I think the stuff in the middle is Ogopogo meat-by-products. Peckers, elbows and gristle.

MolsonExport · #**806** Posted **Aug 25, 2022, 3:03 PM**

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Originally Posted by O-tacular

Had to share this here: https://digitalsynopsis.com/design/w...ed-redesigned/

How the hell were these logos ever approved in the first place. Especially the pediatric care and safe place! Mama’s baking and Fire Prevention Products could both be called Fire Crotch.

could anything be worse than the previous Arlington Pediatric Center logo?

🌳🌱🌿🌴🍁 · #**807** Posted **Sep 21, 2022, 8:18 PM**

A quite CDN-looking coat of arms for a former rural municipality in MB...

- https://twitter.com/j_thorsteinson/s...63980139433984

TownGuy · #**808** Posted **Nov 5, 2022, 10:04 AM**

Check this beauty out. First saw it on a water tower as we were driving through Havelock. I was curious to see what large industrial operation had its own water tower, because surely this was no municipal logo. I was wrong.

megadude · #**809** Posted **Nov 5, 2022, 11:30 AM**

Regarding these last two, at what point does a town council sit down and say we need to get with the times? Is it a case of the cost of printing new letterhead and replacing the logo on a few signs? Or is it a case of if it ain't broke, don't fix it? For the former, the cost of hiring a design firm is not an issue because a kid in highschool could come up with a better logo in ten minutes. For the latter, if the town is small enough then I guess not enough people really care.

That HBM one is surely a contender for the top 25 worst municipality logos in Canada. It would be awesome if a design blog compiled such a list, along with top 25.

esquire · #**810** Posted **Nov 5, 2022, 3:45 PM**

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That HBM one is surely a contender for the top 25 worst municipality logos in Canada. It would be awesome if a design blog compiled such a list, along with top 25.

I think that old Laval logo has to have an absolute hammer-lock on first place.

megadude · #**811** Posted **Nov 5, 2022, 8:27 PM**

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I think that old Laval logo has to have an absolute hammer-lock on first place.

It’s so bad it’s iconic. It would be wise to not change it now.

Loco101 · #**812** Posted **Nov 6, 2022, 2:47 AM**

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Originally Posted by TownGuy

Check this beauty out. First saw it on a water tower as we were driving through Havelock. I was curious to see what large industrial operation had its own water tower, because surely this was no municipal logo. I was wrong.

Is that a logo for a lumber company?

Loco101 · #**813** Posted **Nov 6, 2022, 2:53 AM**

Here is the Tourisme Laval logo used in promoting Laval for tourism.

Coldrsx · #**814** Posted **Nov 6, 2022, 2:56 AM**

I can actually see the Tetris pieces tumbling sideways.

harls · #**815** Posted **Nov 6, 2022, 3:17 AM**

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Originally Posted by Coldrsx

I can actually see the Tetris pieces tumbling sideways.

Their city logo is Tetris in 3D!

Wigs · #**816** Posted **Nov 6, 2022, 4:10 AM**

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I can actually see the Tetris pieces tumbling sideways.

riiight!

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Their city logo is Tetris in 3D!

Their website should feature a mini Tetris game, whereby if you reach a certain score you get a $25 gift coupon to Laval restaurants

megadude · #**817** Posted **Nov 6, 2022, 11:09 AM**

That tourism one is excellent. Simple yet very smart.

Wigs · #**818** Posted **Nov 6, 2022, 6:42 PM**

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That tourism one is excellent. Simple yet very smart.

yes. 95%+ of tourism agencies have much worse logos.

Wigs · #**819** Posted **Nov 6, 2022, 6:51 PM**

St. Catharines is fairly unique in that they still use one from 1972

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The official logo for the City of St. Catharines is used to help people recognize and identify the City. The logo was created in 1972 and is sometimes referred to as “The Chevron.”

The four blue lines symbolize the four Welland Canals and the green represents the fruit growing lands. We updated the logo in 2016 to a more modern typeface and layout.

city of St. Catharines

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St. Catharines carries the official nickname "The Garden City" due to its 1,000 acres (4 km2) of parks, gardens, and trails.

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The name and the spelling was standardized as St. Catharines when the town incorporated in 1845

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I'm going to guess the font of 1972 was bold/thick!

My friend that's a graphic designer would always tell me about different designs "see this. this font is too thick"

The bend makes sense if you've ever driven north on Hwy 406 past downtown St. Catharines. plus it forms an 'SC' pattern

harls · #**820** Posted **Nov 7, 2022, 6:32 PM**

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Originally Posted by Wigs

St. Catharines is fairly unique in that they still use one from 1972

I love simple logos like that.

Don Draper would approve.