Who thought this was a good idea?
Alright everyone, it’s time to put your style-hats on. We’re going to be art critics for the day, and take a look at the marketing side of technology. When it comes to the actual act of differentiating your product from that of your competitors, for the vast majority of companies out there, that job is done simply by their logo. Most consumer-grade electronics are practically clones of one another, to the point where you have no idea who makes it if you don’t see the brand label affixed to it somewhere. Perhaps the trained eye of a salesperson would be able to tell you if a particular monitor was made by BenQ, LG or Samsung, but for the most part, they all look exactly the same, so it falls to their identifying marks to be the determining factor.
And some of them suck.
My candidate for the worst is the LG logo above. It’s awful, and if I didn’t actually genuinely like their products, I’d probably never buy one just because that logo is offensively bad. It looks like something created by a Grade 8 student as a last-minute scribble for an art class. But I’m sure it’s not the worst one out there. I’m confident you guys can find worse.
What technology or electronics company has the worst, ugliest, or most unattractive corporate logo?
My TV just says TOSHIBA, and i purchased it about five years ago after weeks of research. I don't even think Toshiba has a "logo".
Neither does Sony or Philips, 2 of the largest electronics manufacturers in the world.
They're logos, just overly-boring ones.
<img src="http://www.sonyinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/sony.gif">
They do tend to be more creative for their product logos.
<img src="http://imjustcreative.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Sony-Vaio-Logo-White.jpg" width=500>
Oops. I think we've covered this already…. http://atomictoasters.com/2011/10/user-input-bran…
Hey man, that was a year ago. I barely remember what I had for breakfast today, so this question feels pretty new!
If you don't remember what you had for breakfast, it's because it was breakfast Scotch!
"What is behind me is not important."
"Unless I'm in prison."
I'll take your word for it.
I dig LG's moxy in trying to turn what essentially was "Lucky Chemical Company" into something shiny happy. I doubt their workers in China and India think to themselves, "Life's good!"
You do know that LG was formerly known as Zenith? That said, LGs products are crap. We have 100+ of their TVs and Blu-Ray players at my work. They were new a year ago and we have had to replace about half of them already. Total crap, just like their logo. No, life isn't good.
Will
I remember when Goldstar products started showing up. Clearly the Daewoo of electronics. They bought Zenith. There go my hopes of being excited should that brand re-appear.
I thought Daewoo was the Daewoo of electronics? <img src="http://www.polkaudio.com/images/showcase/142_3_big.jpg">
Low hanging fruit:
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/just kidding…
<img src="http://i.imgur.com/MjHAW.gif"> Oh it could have been so SO much worse…
I think that's from the parallel universe where AT was founded in 1999.
I noticed this once yesterday, but today there seems to be a rash of empty-content comments from a variety of new "people" with fresh IntenseDebate accounts working across multiple sites. It's not spam (yet), but is there a way to block this?
Anyone know what this is about? Is it just an attempt to make those accounts look more legitimate by jacking up their point totals before spamming with them?
I don't know if anyone else saw them but I have been trying to use my powers as editor for good, to get rid of them. Not sure what triggered it though. About 10 of yesterday were from the same IP address.
Be sure you thumb down the post first. Maybe you could post a list of offending accounts, so we can visit their Intense Debate pages, see where else they've "commented", and thumb down their spam on argylesocks.com and rubbergloves.org or wherever else they try to build point counts.
l.o.v.e it sooooooooo much!
Damn. Exactly how many more points do you want before switching to spam mode?
My comments pretty much are spam anyway. I'm the most decorated spammer in the history of Intense Debate.
Immediately I looked down at my monitor bezel, which is a Dell. But why do they use the "Enron" E?
Also this
<img src="http://lwosterman.members.winisp.net/images/compressed%20save%20the%20blibbet.jpg">
Then there's the inexplicable P&G moon wind thing face guy…
<img src="http://www.barr-family.com/godsword/Image26.jpg" width=500>
Having worked for Dell in the past I can tell you that the slanted E is a stylized 3.5" floppy disk.
Well if that doesn't just prove the point! I thought it was something classy like an optical illusion reference, you know, interdimensional data storage or something. Or maybe they meant to say, 'We're 3/4 upstanding, 1/4 lazy.'