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City Logo Fail

Anti Opportunity in Antioch City

Kieran February 7, 2019February 7, 2019

In a masterstroke of self-flagellation, Antioch City (the second largest city in Contra Costa County, California, US, a suburb of California) have selected a new logo that highlights that “Opportunity Lives Here”. Only trouble from…

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City Logo Fail, Linked, Observed, Rant

Coquitlam spends $5,000 on a tourism logo that won’t be used

Kieran March 22, 2018
Coquitlam logos

If you’re going to identify that you don’t need a new logo for the promotion of tourism in your city, do it before you spend $5,000 on designing one. I’ve no idea what type of…

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City Logo Fail
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Rejected Port Arthur City Logo wins Award!

Kieran March 8, 2018March 8, 2018

A most excellent tale from Port Arthur, Texas, on a busy day for Texan logo news… Back in 2016, the city launched a new logo to replace their crazy sun/water boat 70’s thing. It was…

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City Logo Fail
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Bellaire Logo’s a no-go…

Kieran March 8, 2018
Existing Bellaire, Texas Logo

The always tricky “city identity’ dragon raises it’s head in Bellaire Texas, who adopted most of a rebrand, drafted by Design by Principle, but not the logo, leaving them with the old, weird, illustrative city…

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City Logo Fail
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Choose your favorite logo for a new Mexican Airport. Only 1044 options…

Kieran May 17, 2017
Logo Contents Fail

With shades of the Everett Logo Contest, the government of Mexico is looking for a new Mexico City airport logo and is offering $4,000 for the winner of its open competition (with rights granted on all…

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City Logo Fail, Rant
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Southwark Council’s £7,000 logo redraw

Kieran August 4, 2016

I regularly argue that councils and municipals need to invest in branding. I wrote an article explaining a few reasons “Why that new municipal council logo isn’t a waste of taxpayer money” and I stand by the…

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City Logo Fail, Rant
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How to Name a Shopping Centre

Kieran July 22, 2016July 22, 2016 1 Comment

Back in the heady days of 2012, when the UK austerity mandate was really starting to bite, Stoke-on-Trent City Council  and Realis Estates began work on a plan for a new retail and leisure development in…

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City Logo Fail, Rant
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3 ways to say Derry City and Strabane Council

Kieran July 21, 2015July 21, 2015

Derry City and Strabane District Council is a local authority in Northern Ireland that was established on 1 April 2015. It replaced Derry City Counciland Strabane District Council and covers most of the northwest of Northern Ireland. The first elections to…

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City Logo Fail, Observed
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City of Stonnington from Casino to 90s Roundel

Kieran June 30, 2015June 30, 2015

The City of Stonnington is a local government area located within the metropolitan area of Melbourne, Australia. (Wikipedia) Stonnington has updated its logo, initially designed in 1994 when it was formed. They’ve kept the central elements, as brush like S and…

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City Logo Fail
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Canada asks student designers to work for free

Kieran December 9, 2014December 9, 2014

Canada is preparing to celebrate it’s 150th anniversary in 2017. Events like this take some planning, so thinking ahead, they’re looking for a logo to support the celebrations. They’ve chosen to ask students of the country…

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City Logo Fail, Rant
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Everett Logo Contest – The Winner!

Kieran December 8, 2014August 4, 2016 2 Comments

UPDATE 10/12/2014: It seems that the winning design might be a little to close to another existing logo. It looks like two designers coming to similar solutions rather than a copy to me, so that’s…

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City Logo Fail
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Everett Logo Contest 2 – The Semi Finals!

Kieran November 14, 2014December 12, 2014 2 Comments

UPDATE: Everett Logo Winner Announced! Part 1: Everett Logo Contest: 849 ways to design a logo View all 849 entries in this 50mb original Everett logo entry survey screen grab: Keeping up with this story from a few weeks…

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Everett Logo Contest: 849 ways to design a logo

Kieran October 27, 2014December 12, 2014

UPDATE Part 3: Everett Logo Winner Announced! Part 2: Everett Logo Contest 2 – The Semi Finals! View all 849 entries in this 50mb original Everett logo entry survey screen grab. I like to keep an eye…

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City Logo Fail
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An Arrow for Broken Bow’s New Broken Brand

Kieran October 7, 2014October 7, 2014

Broken Bow is a city in Custer County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 3,559 at the 2010 census. It’s not a big place then, but as you know, I love a tale of governmental…

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City Logo Fail
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Pendle doesn’t Lovehoney

Kieran February 26, 2014February 26, 2014

North-western British local council Pendle were fortunate to have councillor James Starkie in their fold. Starkie it seems has an eye for logo design and put together a heart based new design for the council….

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City Logo Fail, Linked
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A Star – Amarillo selects a new logo

Kieran January 27, 2014January 27, 2014 1 Comment

A Tale of Logo Woe   Should you have missed the start to Amalillo’s tale of logo woe here’s the short version: Texan city Amarillo were looking to update their branding efforts and launched with…

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City Logo Fail
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City Logo Fail #2 – Menlo Park Spends $25k to keep its old logo

Kieran January 15, 2014January 16, 2014

UPDATED: Menlo Park is a well off town in the east of California, it was ranked in the top 15 US cities in CNN’s “Best Places for the Rich and Single” to live (Thanks Wikipedia). It’s…

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City Logo Fail #2 – Wellington

Kieran November 28, 2013November 28, 2013

Wellington, New Zealand’s capital city is home to just shy of 400,000 people and sits at the southern tip of the countries northern island (thanks Wikipedia). When the city looked to create a new identity,…

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City Logo Fail #1

Kieran November 12, 2013November 12, 2013 1 Comment

One theme which always makes it’s appearance in my new logo alert stream are designs for US Cities or municipal authorities of all types. They rarely make it onto the blog as usually their quality…

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