Sounds like fun… whatever it means. (-:

(original image source unknown)

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On a good day, the monkey rides the goat.
On a bad day, the goat rides the monkey…

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Some fun experiments in lid-design from Good, an agency in Kazakshstan (see more here).

—Oscar Wilde, (1854-1900)

—Will Rogers

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This is the “award-winning” logo designed for the Catholic Church’s Archdiocesan Youth Commission by Gerry Kano in 1974.

Perhaps the 1970s really were simpler, gentler, more innocent times (?)… and it can happen that designers at times “get too close” to their own work to “see the bigger picture”—yet it seems hard to believe that no one in the decision-making and client-side approval process saw just how badly this could be interpreted.

Steven Heller offered some astute comments on this design in an AIGA article (from 2009): “On some occasions, logos are more than marks of failure or malfeasance; sometimes they unintentionally illustrate the foibles or folly of a company or institution all too vividly… the unfortunate pictorial relationship between the priest and the child, given our collective awareness… suggests a much too ironic interpretation. It’s a challenge to see what this positive/negative image once suggested, a guardian protecting the innocent, since the benevolence of its subject is no longer black and white. When a good design signifies bad deeds, the result is, well, a really unfortunate logo.”

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During the “Bush era” I posted (and sometimes included in lectures I gave) “re-mixed” propaganda posters by Micah Wright. In his own words, “I shut down the Propaganda Poster Project when Obama got elected… I stupidly thought that (a) everyone had finally woken up, and that (b) Obama was sincere about ending Bush’s war/illegal renditions/closing Gitmo/helping the Middle Class, etc. Sadly, the last two years have simply proven that I have to be just as vocal with my elected Democrats to keep their asses in line as I was vocal against Bush & his ilk.”

View a whole new batch of re-mixed images (such as the one above) here.

(No comment… more here.)

Thanks to friend Matt Warburton for the link.

(A cautionary note in the face of increased specialization and ever-narrowing vertical knowledge silos [happens in nearly every field nowadays, it seems]… which also underlines the fundamental value of lateral/horizontal thinking).