TV Buzz This is why child stars shouldn't be allowed on live television.
Celebrity Buzz The fashion at the the Logo NewNowNext Awards was LOUD. No judgement, of course, but you really have to see it to believe it.
Politics Buzz Barack Obama’s 2008 logo was the toast of the design world, but Mitt Romney’s doesn’t feel quite as fresh — despite its striking resemblance to the logo for Aquafresh toothpaste. Actually, it looks like pretty much every other corporate logo in America: Aquafresh, Pepsi, Ramada Hotels, and Carnival Cruise, among others. The Romney font is set to Trajan, which is the same font used for Lord of the Rings, Minority Report, Titanic, The Mummy and Star Wars Episode II.
Culture Buzz Here, piggy piggy piggy! A prison laborer very creatively hid some swine in the stickers that adorn the cars of the people who put that laborer in prison. Can you pinpoint the pork?
Politics Buzz None of those queens would ever survive.
http://www.joblo.com/movie-news/paramount-pictures-reach-...
The film industry is getting old. To celebrate becoming a centaur centenarian, Paramount is treating itself with the tamest logo redesign ever.
Culture Buzz If you click on “I'm Feeling Lucky” without entering a search item, then you'll be redirected to every google logo created. Now go forth and kill the next hour with your new found knowledge. (via reddit.com)
Culture Buzz Creative Logo Designer Graham Smith describes his Brand Re-Versioning series as brand identities with a split personality. He's the designer, so he gets to call them what he wants. It's my post, so I get to call them brand-name mind f**ks. (Via The BuzzBrewery)
Not only do you get to serve as the logo vector designer, but you also get to advise the mayor, a holiday named after you, possibly a road named as well. Plus fame and fortune, and maybe even learn how to embalm some dead people. (via @im_so_tiny)
http://www.cracked.com/article_19045_awful-logo-design-ar...
Awfulness of this caliber takes hard work and talent.
Iamjustcreative.com is doing a study where they simplify brand logos to just colors and shapes and seeing if consumers can distinguish the brand. Can you still identify the brands? I found Target!
Culture Buzz Google celebrates the 40th anniversary of Sesame Street and the 20th anniversary of Wallace and Gromit on both their American and British sites.
TV Buzz After Comedy Central slashed the budget of The Sarah Silverman Program, the show's future looked bleak until MTV Networks' gay channel, Logo, agreed to co-finance the show. Finally, someone actually funny (although Buzzfeed readers don't necessarily agree) might dethrone Kathy Griffin as the queen of gay comedy. …Maybe. …Okay, doubtful, but a boy can dream.
TV Buzz RuPaul's new show is basically America's Next Top Model for drag queens. [Insert crack about RuPaul and Tyra being twinsies here.]
In addition to an ironic nautical star, this woman has chosen to tattoo herself with Google's Android logo. Perhaps this wasn't as bad of a choice as Zune Guy's infamous Microsoft tattoo, but the open-source factor alone doesn't seem that redeeming to me.
http://www.logodesignlove.com/obama-08-logo-design-options
A journey through the rejected logos for Barack Obama's campaign and how the final design choice was reached.