I don't dare post pictures, descriptions will have to do.
There exists a minority that understands that marketing/advert agencies are filled with oppressed workers seething with rage. And that this rage boils out in ways that usually manifests itself, as numerous examples this week illustrate, in rude corporate acronyms of the insulting or scatalogical sort. And, as many realise, in rude logos that evoke goatse or sodomy, paedophilia, and the sort.

I'm apparently in that minority, and as you are reading this here, I wager you are also in that minority.

I have a special talent for spotting the socially-unacceptable in logos. This talent is not appreciated by the Boards of Directors of the corporations for which I have worked.
--Who hasn't seen a logo reminiscent of goatse and known instantly that the resemblance was no coincidence?
--The stylized figures, one tall one behind a smaller one? Approved despite my pointing out its worthiness for Paedo-bear approval.
--The interlocked, styled body whose legs formed a circle that was the head of the figure below? I said the graphic artist should be sacked for proposing a logo that looked like one man's head in the crotch of another, complete with motion lines, described as the line of people behind. The Board loved the artist's explanation, full of symbolism about working together in caring and supportive ways. Indeed.

I always refused to put the logo on my cards, said it was badly-done porno, which the boss acknowledged with a snort but still didn't warn off HIS bosses (if it was done better, maybe, but who wants badly-done porno on one's cards?).
( kila is reading clocks upside-down as usual, Sun 26 Feb 2012, 11:55, 8 replies)

Oh yes indeed
Our User research/marketing department head was not particularly pleased during a workshop where a logo was presented and I asked "is it supposed to look like a pair of saggy tits?"
( Michael Ellis contributes nothing, Sun 26 Feb 2012, 12:57, closed)

Why oh Why oh Why..
Weren't you two there when the logo for the London olympics was signed off on?
(Beer Elf Thought this was like a campfire, anyhow, on, Sun 26 Feb 2012, 17:09, closed)

OGC
That is all.
(all my scars face forward possesses 2.5% of a hyperalloy combat chassis, Sun 26 Feb 2012, 18:55, closed)

I suspect that was somehow connected to Ogio
As my daughter had a crossbody bookbag with a stylised OGIO logo, and I knew I'd seen that somewhere (tilts head sideways) ah yes, now I remember.

One of Ogio's logo designers is an imitator of that little gem. They've several versions of their logo (not clear on the concept, obviously), and this was one intended for children. O'gio has lost their apostrophe,but Imagine, now, where it would be in that logo (I've only just realised this, I'm sadly not a total perv).
( kila is reading clocks upside-down as usual, Sun 26 Feb 2012, 19:21, closed)

It was all over the interwebs
We did our best to point it out, raucously iirc!
( kila is reading clocks upside-down as usual, Sun 26 Feb 2012, 19:24, closed)

To be fair
I suppose I should allow for the extremely naive making (Freudian) slips.
( kila is reading clocks upside-down as usual, Sun 26 Feb 2012, 19:22, closed)

the b3ta phallic logo awards
are still a must see for my graphic designer friends.
(wino.NZ The Ayatollah of rock n' rolla..., Mon 27 Feb 2012, 7:07, closed)

Too right. They need to know where the bar is set.

And I'd appreciate some originality!
( kila is reading clocks upside-down as usual, Mon 27 Feb 2012, 7:59, closed)