if you don't understand the Young Alarm reference, you haven't spent enough time on the internet.

Raymels would have worked ok with perhaps a white border around the edges, and a single color font like maybe dark red (so it would look like steaks with fat around the edges).

Yeay goatse reference! ^_^

@Saboth: i like the IDEA of putting it on a "grill" background.
the IMPLEMENTATION sucks.

@2 replies by: there is nothing "yay" about that

nice...I love these sites. Reminds me of photobomb and graphjam.

@gStein:

I'm sure the conversation with the signmaker went something like this:

raymel: "I want something eye catching that really pops. I have a nephew that took an art class."

sign guy:

@gStein: If you don't understand the Young Alarm reference, don't look it up.

It is probably because my brain has shutdown for the week, but whats wrong with the Women of Hope logo? Other than the fact that it looks incredibly boring...

Only thing I could think of is that the bold black line looks like an IUD.

@MostlyHarmless: especially not using the term "goatse"

On second look... cameltoe?

@MostlyHarmless: That was my first thought :/

I love the "PMS" sign on the website. How do the people in charge not notice these things?

yeah, they could have found a better spot for the kid on that Young Alarm logo...that one is kind of creepy to me.

@MostlyHarmless:

I was thinking more of a device women use to prevent pregnancy... it's called "sterilet" in my language - i don't know how it would translate to English... I think intrauterine contraceptive devices...

@Marius H: Yeah. thats IUD.

@SexCpotatoes: Even discounting that, it's still a bad sign. GIANT HANDS CRUSHING YOUR HOUSE

@evilrobot: Great. Thanks.
Now I'm trying to imaging how the conversation went between the sign maker and the Young Alarm owner.
"I like barbed wire fences. And my wife and I really like kids. No. I mean we really like kids."
"Err..."
"Ohh. Ha-ha. I got it now. No, we don't like it that way. That'd be sick... Nah, she only watches."
"!!"

@MostlyHarmless:

Assuming it's just a bad scan (I doubt that, but benefit of the doubt and all) that logo shows the typography skills of a secretary armed with nothing but an IBM Selectric and sticky labels.

Hmmm, I thought consumerist was all about the cats? Why no cat love for the main pic? There's one on the site! Here, I'll make it easy and link it!

[www.yourlogomakesmebarf.com]

Much as I dislike guns, I kinda want that one that has the armed wheelchair dude to replace my disabled parking tag so maybe, just maybe, someone will see it and think twice about illegally using a disabled spot when they bloody well have no right/need to do so.

The Sherwin Williams logo is EASILY the worst marketing logo ever. It would be better served as the Nazi symbol or the Cobra symbol. "Cover the World" ?!?! And you're pouring red BLOOD -- er, "paint" -- all over a globe? Seriously?

[www.gollaindustries.com]

@MostlyHarmless: IUD. Camel toe. Cleavage-- bosom or butt variety.

It's like a Rorschach for perverts!

@SexCpotatoes: You know, I was actually so horrified by the child/adult juxtaposition that I didn't even see the, uh, similarity until I came back and looked at it again. Whoa, is that unfortunate or what? Alarming, indeed.

This is a classic from the Arlington Pediatric Center

[i37.tinypic.com]

OMG - With all of the logo FAILS on the site, did you see the "endorsed designers" linked sites ([www.yourlogomakesmebarf.com])?

This has got to be a joke.

Seriously...

@MostlyHarmless: squint a bit and you have a double amputee with a hairy va-jay-jay

@MostlyHarmless: to take it one horrible step further - that's a caduceus, which isn't the symbol for medicine [although often misused that way in north america] but for commerce. oh wait, i guess it IS appropriate for medical practices in the U.S.

@Toffeecake: i went to an elementary school with the initial PMS. the paint job on the awning was changed eventually to spell out the school name. hehe

@squishyalt: i only clicked the first one... and my brain stopped at the kung pow flash madness

@catastrophegirl: Just read the wiki article on that. It's actually pretty funny, how a mistake can become so ingrained into the world that it's not really considered wrong anymore.

@catastrophegirl: Hell, the "Your Logo Makes Me Barf" logo made me queasy.

In today's day and age, Young Alarm Co. should have their logo depicting one guy bent over a chair while his "live-in partner" is ramrodding him from the rear! A wholesome family is sooo out dated and uncool.

@danno5-0: Sigh. I guess homophobia is the trend the "REAL" cool kids are into, eh?

@shepd: that's what bugged me the most... the fact that the text didn't "wave" with the banner

@gStein: That's only because you haven't gone to the Goatse Petting Zoo yet. Do. It's an experience you'll NEVER forget - bring the kids to share the memories!

haha. As a designer, I take issue with all of these. Problem is, people think a log has to be uber-complicated, when the simpler it is, the better.

Oh I *love* that web site, "Your Logo Makes me Barf"! Part of my job deals with graphic identity and branding, and it drives me nuts that every little subgroup, subcommittee, mini-center, etc. wants their own logo ... especially when they give the project to some admin assistant who learned basic layout software and comes up with CRAP.

@MostlyHarmless: Hah, IUD was my first thought, too! Then I saw the labia. It's all in the angle. It's like one of those creepy pictures from the 80's where the eyes follow you. Except it's not the eyes.

@subtlefrog: More like lips...

@MostlyHarmless: Thanks for the warning. (Seriously, I might have searched for it)

@IfThenElvis: that one is truly amazing in that it was NOT thrown out.

Who knew "Pedo Bear" ran a security alarm company?