The Great and Less Than Great Canadian Logo Thread - Page 24

MonkeyRonin · #**461** Posted **Nov 6, 2019, 4:14 AM**

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Originally Posted by hipster duck

As you’re probably aware, there is a lesbian bar on Queen West called “The Beaver”. That should be their logo.

They must've taken your advice!

http://www.thebeavertoronto.com/events/

Maldive · #**462** Posted **Nov 6, 2019, 6:00 PM**

Short stories don't work in logo/branding. Looks like an internet cheap and cheerful delivery.

Understand the desire to tell a TB story but logos are a gateway
link where you can tell a story.

Thunder Bay - what a name to work with... even 1st year college designers would get excited about branding that name.

vid · #**463** Posted **Nov 7, 2019, 1:28 AM**

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Originally Posted by Maldive

Short stories don't work in logo/branding. Looks like an internet cheap and cheerful delivery.

Understand the desire to tell a TB story but logos are a gateway
link where you can tell a story.

Thunder Bay - what a name to work with... even 1st year college designers would get excited about branding that name.

Well it's only for a special event happening over the course of 2020, so it's not like we're stuck with it.

Our current logo is a thunderbird (the god, not the car).

Djeffery · #**464** Posted **Nov 7, 2019, 2:51 AM**

Saw a comment above about the city of London logo. This is what they tried to use a few years ago before returning to the more traditional one.

Traditional

vid · #**465** Posted **Nov 7, 2019, 2:57 AM**

Wow, really?

MolsonExport · #**466** Posted **Jun 4, 2020, 4:18 PM**

just posted in another thread:

viridianautomation

MolsonExport · #**467** Posted **Jun 4, 2020, 4:18 PM**

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Originally Posted by Djeffery

Saw a comment above about the city of London logo. This is what they tried to use a few years ago before returning to the more traditional one.

Traditional

Clearly a great example of when "less is more"

JHikka · #**468** Posted **Jun 4, 2020, 4:19 PM**

All I can see in that Markham logo is the V for Vendetta logo

MolsonExport · #**469** Posted **Jun 4, 2020, 4:20 PM**

Perhaps surrounding municipalities have a vendetta against Markham?

MolsonExport · #**470** Posted **Jun 4, 2020, 4:22 PM**

Does Doug Ford's panned Blue Ontario License Plate design belong in this thread?

cbc

stevanford1 · #**471** Posted **Jun 4, 2020, 4:22 PM**

I like the Hamilton libraries logo:

Is it just me or does anyone else hate the generic Superstore/Atlantic/NoFrills/every single grocery store logo?

stevanford1 · #**472** Posted **Jun 4, 2020, 4:24 PM**

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Originally Posted by MolsonExport

Does Doug Ford's panned Blue Ontario License Plate design belong in this thread?

cbc

The one that you can't see in the dark? Yes! I hate it, a total waste of money as well. Let's spend a lot of money on changing the plates and then change them back because we can't design for shit!

MolsonExport · #**473** Posted **Jun 4, 2020, 4:26 PM**

hanna

Crippleback

stevanford1 · #**474** Posted **Jun 4, 2020, 4:30 PM**

The old Hanna slogan sucked! worth the drive, they should've made it "come for Nickelcrap, stay for the dead ass downtown"!

Hanna is like the Drumbo of AB.

MolsonExport · #**475** Posted **Jun 4, 2020, 5:14 PM**

Yep, Hanna is the Drumbo of AB. What is the Drumbo of Quebec? is there one?

kwoldtimer · #**476** Posted **Jun 4, 2020, 5:18 PM**

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Originally Posted by stevanford1

The one that you can't see in the dark? Yes! I hate it, a total waste of money as well. Let's spend a lot of money on changing the plates and then change them back because we can't design for shit!

Did they ever figure out why the plates couldn't be read at night? Never heard of such a thing anywhere eles.

ssiguy · #**477** Posted **Jun 4, 2020, 5:21 PM**

That once potential replacement of London's is grotesque.

Perhaps I'm biased due to London being my hometown, but I think London's logo is a very nice one. Clear, concise, attractive, and represents the city's reputation as the Forest City very well without the gaudiness of so many others. In many ways I think London's logo is the municiple rendition of Canada's flag.

MolsonExport · #**478** Posted **Jun 4, 2020, 5:48 PM**

yeah it is good in its clear message, simplicity, and understated tone.

I hate the gaudy/screamingly-loud or head-scratching logos as much as the lame-o, boilerplate/generic logos (with arrows, water, some old building, or some abstract swirling shape, or worse, a soul-sucking slogan).

stevanford1 · #**479** Posted **Jun 4, 2020, 6:12 PM**

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Originally Posted by MolsonExport

yeah it is good in its clear message, simplicity, and understated tone.

I hate the gaudy/screamingly-loud or head-scratching logos as much as the lame-o, boilerplate/generic logos (with arrows, water, some old building, or some abstract swirling shape, or worse, a soul-sucking slogan).

A NUMBER OF THINGS TO DO IN OKOTOKS!

HANNA: WORTH THE DRIVE!

VAUGHAN: THE CITY ABOVE TORONTO (why does this make me want to visit Vaughan?)!

p_xavier · #**480** Posted **Jun 4, 2020, 6:12 PM**

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Originally Posted by stevanford1

Is it just me or does anyone else hate the generic Superstore/Atlantic/NoFrills/every single grocery store logo?

Since when they changed colours? No Frills was yellow no?