Since we're a board of conservative people who hate change, I present UCal's amazing misstep in branding. Their logo change:
Frozen loading bar or flushing toilet, you decide. Whatever it is, it isn't higher education. At the end of the day, let us just be thankful that Dave Brandon has yet to hire the design firm who performed this fuckup.
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A simple block "M" is huge
A simple block "M" is huge from an I P standpoint. DB is right on the mark.
Although sometimes
I think he overdoes it with the block M. They're on the bathroom placards in Crisler for crying out loud.
Man ball. Formerly, somebody else.
Brandon or someone in the IP
Brandon or someone in the IP area at Michigan wants the block M to be unequivocally associated with the University of Michigan. It is a very smart move. As for displaying the M in too many places, that is another matter. Personally, I never get tired of seeing it.
Yeah, I never tire of it
Yeah, I never tire of it either. The school hasn't been completely uniform about using it though; the new bus stop area by the dental school has the old split M.
This logo brought to you
This logo brought to you courtesy of the "airbrush" feature in MS paint.
That graphic artist must have
That graphic artist must have some kind of steady hand with the mouse. Whenever I try to use the airbrush on Paint whatever I'm working on turns into a polka dotted mess.
The swag is back.
Looks like
Still looks like some medical sign for intestinal discomfort or perhaps a prescription drug logo for some kind of pill that clears up the drippy shits.
Yeah, it sucks...
Yeah, it sucks, but the firm that made it is now a Legend and a Leader.
Intensity is a lot of guys that run fast.
Looks like a coiler in a
Looks like a coiler in a toilet bowl.
Image please!
Image please!
Man ball. Formerly, somebody else.
Seriously? Is that like, a
Seriously? Is that like, a fetish, or what's going on there?
As the owner of two toilets
and lots of piping I've found you need to pick things up whenever possible.
Man ball. Formerly, somebody else.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krYlX59Hygk&feature=youtu.be
It's the same old story. Boy finds girl, boy loses girl, girl finds boy, boy forgets girl, boy remembers girl, girls dies in a tragic blimp accident over the Orange Bowl on New Year's Day.
The bowl is swirling counterclockwise
Doesn't that mean the school is in the Southern Hemisphere? Or is it the other way 'round in reverse?
Let's have Bart make a few
Let's have Bart make a few calls to find out.
It looks more like something
It looks more like something you would see on TV while watching Reading Rainbow after you just ate a handful of mushrooms.
#nevertriedit
I hate when that happens.
I hate when that happens.
What exactly was wrong with this logo???
Cal vs UC
The CAL logo is used only by UC Berkeley's athletics department. Both the old seal and new toilet bowl logos in the OP's post are University-of-California-wide, meaning all 8 campuses, and aren't sports-related.
As a current Cal student, I went to sign the petition against the new logo at change.org and discovered that 47,000 people had already signed it. The new logo is a failure of truly epic proportions.
Oh, I thought this was in
Oh, I thought this was in regards to Berkeley itself. Regardless, I have signed the petition as well, the new logo is terrible.
Seconded
Student at UC Davis here. I second this.
Are non-students allowed to sign the petition as well? If so, please, MgoCrew, help us.
/Insert "Noooooo!" picture here
This goes outside of the
This goes outside of the crazy branding thing. Schools doing crazy things for sports logos is a misguided trend. This is the first I am aware of schools doing this crazy stuff with the actual school seal. Congrats on Cal taking bad design taste to a new dimension.
Your friendly neighborhood contrarian.
To me...
it looks like something that a medieval knight would wear on the front of his armor during a joust. So I guess it is pretty cool....
What's wrong with replacing a deteriorating masterpiece
with something that I could paint?
the SNL skit on this is so classic...
the SNL skit on this is so classic...
"That's right. It's an off-tackle play. It's coming right over you. And there's not a thing you can do about it."
KCRW In Los Angeles...
...posted some select tweets on the subject. I tend to like this one:
"I think my internet connection is down because it looks like the #UCLogo is still loading #sayitaintso #bringbacktheoldUClogo.”"
To me, it looks like the last corn chip in the bag, which is probably what inspired the intern who I would imagine designed this one.
"Funny isn't it, how naughty dentists always make that one fatal mistake."
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Another random OT since I
Another random OT since I have you here. I have this utility pole kind of near my house that has been lying on the grass strip between the street and sidewalk for over a year (and it is killing the grass). Do I call the city or DTE?
Probably Us...
I would call it into us...800-477-4747. If it has been a year or so, then it may very well have been for something like a maintenance job that was either lessened in scope or cancelled altogether (or put off because of everyone's friend - the budget). It might get sent to my group for followup to confirm that it isn't part of something that is eventually supposed to happen. If you get no action, let me know somewhere (here, Twitter, etc...) and I know someone at the pole yard who can take care of it.
"Funny isn't it, how naughty dentists always make that one fatal mistake."
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Thanks and a followup
Do the guys at the pole buy lightly used ones (say ~1 year old and just sat on grass) and what do they pay? Gotta fund these oversea trips somehow.
Buying Poles...
Depending on the size, we pay something on the order of $400-$600 per pole ourselves, and one year - for what we expect as a useful life - leads to negligible decpreciation. That might be a good start for the ensuing negotiation. It isn't common now, but farmers used to buy the poles that we replaced from us and make fences from them back in the day - definitely do not recommend burning them as firewood, of course.
"Funny isn't it, how naughty dentists always make that one fatal mistake."
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My wife is of the view it
My wife is of the view it would be hilarious to cut say eighteen inches off the top and when they finally do set it up, see long it takes them figure out why is shorter. While I agree that might be funny, the part where AAPD drops by to ask me what I've been doing with my power tools at 1 am would be a lot less funny.
I Can Relate...
I can relate to the last part - as someone who once designed a job that was done off-hours and without the proper permitting with regard to Ann Arbor's noise ordnance (actually had to appear in court for that one, represented by the company, of course), I can say without hesitation that the police would not find it amusing.
"Funny isn't it, how naughty dentists always make that one fatal mistake."
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This hijacking has so much
This hijacking has so much win in it. Its a serious discussion about something that probably has never been discussed in MGoHistory. Tremendous!
Disgruntled former moderator. I got a lot of problems with you people!
the Cal "Toilet Bowl of Death"
"Fear the Toilet Bowl" would be intimidating cheer to shout at opposing fans. Mostly the really drunk ones.
Ucal
You are officially the first person to ever call that school "UCal"
Before clicking on the
Before clicking on the thread, I was trying to figure out what school he was talking about.
Greetings from Bolivia.
"It's special how the real true people hang together. And if you don't support the program you're not a true Michigan guy. It's that simple." - Gary Moeller
As pointed out, he is not
As pointed out, he is not talking about 1 school, but the Cal system of U. (heh).
UC Davis
UC Berkeley
UC LA
UC Santa Cruz
and uhhh others
UC San Diego
UC Irvine
UC
UC San Diego
UC Irvine
UC Merced
UC Riverside
UC SF
UC Santa Barbara
Greetings from Bolivia.
"It's special how the real true people hang together. And if you don't support the program you're not a true Michigan guy. It's that simple." - Gary Moeller
thanks for pointing out the technicality
it's contagious
We know where they got the design firm recommendation from.
"I love him, he's a great coach, he's a great mentor, he's a great friend. He's every single thing you want a college coach to be, and he does it flawlessly." -David Molk
B2G (c)?
The real question is: do Jim Delany and Co have "B2G" copyrighted yet?
With the trend towards super-sizing conferences, I suspect he's gonna need it in the near future.
Sad statement about the trends
I saw that as first "26" teams, not "20".
"I love him, he's a great coach, he's a great mentor, he's a great friend. He's every single thing you want a college coach to be, and he does it flawlessly." -David Molk
I've seen worse
I've seen worse
I'm choosing to believe that
I'm choosing to believe that is a man staring at a basketball on his knee.
Oprah's Minge.
Holy Cats. That is... well.
Holy Cats. That is... well. Simultanously awful and wonderful.
The logo isn't loading. Just
The logo isn't loading. Just a weird blue shape with a yellow "loading" signal.
for what it is worth
the seal is changing, but it is a more of a refinement:
they are not just getting rid of it.
i think that we all get riled up here because we see something at the top of the page that is admittedly ugly and think of cal's logo or UCLA or something, but this is a pretty amazingly complex organziation that needs to have some sort of unifying graphical element, and while i personally think that the wierd U shape with the C gradient is a swing and miss, it is not like the original thing they are covering up was really inventive. there is a difference between a wordmark, a logo and a seal. this logo needs to work on a million different applications and sizes and colors to act as a shorthand, visual umbrella for the organization.
there is a video here that explains it a bit.
http://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/ic_uc_we_all_c_for_california.php
