You are currently viewing our boards as a guest which gives you limited access to view most discussions and access our other features. By joining our free community you will have access to post topics, communicate privately with other members (PM), respond to polls, upload content and access many other special features. Registration is fast, simple and absolutely free so please, join our community today!
The banners on the left side and below do not show for registered users!
If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, please contact contact us.
Vancouver Off-Topic / Current EventsThe off-topic forum for Vancouver, funnies, non-auto centered discussions, WORK SAFE. While the rules are more relaxed here, there are still rules. Please refer to sticky thread in this forum.
Council was probably shown 8 to 10 different logos and chose this one. Who knows what else the designer showed the City? Maybe they were actually really good logos, so I wouldn't blame the designer here. Easy for the public to say "you paid $8,000 for that POS!?!" when the designer potentially spent several days coming up with various concepts.
I swear these fucks must just sit around the table and think up ways to waste money. Not only is the design ugly as fuck, but the end result is something no one even cares about.
It's unfortunate the public sector only seems to retain incompetent people.
fixed it
some of the greatest people i've ever worked with started in the public sector
__________________ "There's a lot of dead people who had the right of way." "Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience." "I have a lot of beliefs, and I live by none of them. They're just my beliefs, they make me feel good about who I am. But if they get in the way of a thing I want, like I wanna jack off or something, I just do that."
This George Affleck guy gets it. Seems like he's one of the only sane people on council. Can't believe Vancouverites voted in Gregor and his goons. Fuck
So they tell us they don't have money to fight the fentanyl crisis, so they raise our taxes, while still spending millions on bike lanes....
They were also saying $8k is just for designing the new logo, it's actually going to cost MILLIONS to CHANGE and rebrand the city to the new logo... (eg. changing logo on websites, city signs, city vehicles, and etc)
I'm so triggered...
Last edited by drunkhomer; 02-23-2017 at 05:40 PM.
Why do we need a new logo? CTV did a poll and 80 percent prefer the old logo. Spendings 8k is crazy but the added cost to replace the signs around Vancouver plus other misc stuff is going to add up. Just like couple yrs ago they spent how much to redesign the website? Where is the petition so I can sign my name. Like other have mentioned there are other area to spend money on like plowing the side streets to pick up the garbage.
Why do we need a new logo? CTV did a poll and 80 percent prefer the old logo. Spendings 8k is crazy but the added cost to replace the signs around Vancouver plus other misc stuff is going to add up. Just like couple yrs ago they spent how much to redesign the website? Where is the petition so I can sign my name. Like other have mentioned there are other area to spend money on like plowing the side streets to pick up the garbage.
The overall cost of $8000 for the logo design is nothing compared to the other stuff that needs to be replaced. It's the cost of having to change every single signage in Vancouver, all their ads, posters, business cards, etc. that will cost the most.
This is an absolute waste of taxpayers money with zero justification for the logo redesign. This is exactly what happened when city council voted to implement bike lanes and already had city worker crews on the streets with all the barricades ready to go before they even officially voted on it. Things like this where it costs taxpayers money should be held to some form of public consultation instead of all these closed door deals that they just decide to shove down our throats because they have the majority vote.
The best part was, in the criteria, they wanted something that would be easily recognizable by non-english speakers/readers. All they truly did was remove the flower. So I guess through their strenuous research, it was the flower symbol that confused non-english readers.
Now everybody in the world can recognize the City of Vancouver.
__________________
Quote:
Originally posted by 97ITR He would step out of his freshly downtown autospa detailed 996 C4s, check out his own reflection in the driverside window out of habit, take off his brand new limited edition D&G aviator sunglasses so the mf can see the fury in his eyes, sashay over to the other guy and then threaten to insert his black leather Savatore Ferragamo loafers into the guys rear-end.
Wow I am so disappointed... I was confident that the council wouldn't be dumb enough to approve it, what a damn waste of money for something so utterly unnecessary...
The problem with public sector is it's driven by tax.
You do not have to be profitable or provide best customer service & product to survive like private sector.
Which means, public sector workers can afford to slack off and waste money and be overpaid.
They also lack ambition too, compare to private sector workers. Many truly talented public sector workers will move to private sector for bigger opportunity.
However, public sector pays pretty damn well for relatively unskilled/uneducated jobs.
With Kelowna Secondary School dropping its mascot logo last week after complaints of copyright violation, it wouldn't be the first time a not so original motif found its way into the city.
While the school was caught infringing on the trademark belonging to Philadelphia's Temple University, some of Kelowna's most iconic brands have eerily similar look-a-likes.
Former Kelowna Secondary School owls logo (left) and current Temple University owl mascot (right).
Image Credit: Wikipedia
In 2000, the Kelowna Rockets unveiled new art featuring the now-familiar Ogopogo on the front. Trouble was, they weren't the first sports team to use it and not even the first hockey team. It was quickly discovered to be nearly identical to the dragon on the San Antonio Dragons logo. The only differences are colour, wings and horns.
In 2009, the City of Kelowna took two years and spent $80,000 choosing its current rainbow colored spirographic to replace a simple picture of the Sails. Shortly after it was released it was discovered another designer had created a nearly identical pattern in 2007.
Kelowna Senior Secondary's owl graphic has already been removed from its website. Temple University called the Central Okanagan School board last week to point out the Owl design was its artistic property.
“Temple University actually contacted us directly saying our logo was a reasonably close fascilime of their university logo,” said school board secretary treasurer Larry Paul.
How did the graphic sneak its way into the school's branding? Paul says while the school has used an owl mascot for decades they decided to refresh the graphic when they moved locations in 2002. The school's former owl logo was replaced with the one trademarked to Temple University.
“It happened when the school moved to its new location, it was a staff decision,” he says.
“I suspect someone pulled a nice looking graphic of the internet and thought it would be nice to use at the school, not considering the trademark restriction,” he says.
Paul says the individual responsible was likely unaware college sports teams have trademarks for their logos the same way corporations and professional sports teams do.
And it appears Kelowna Secondary was not the only school to fancy the graphic.
“The university did mention they are pursing other schools than just us," he says. "They are doing an inventory across North America indicating more than one school is using the logo."
Kelowna Secondary has already started the lengthy proccess of eradicating the graphic.
“We've already pulled it off the website and are removing the evidence as much as we can,” Paul says, from its trace on anything from school letterhead to report card stock, uniforms and the gymnasium floor.
The Ogopogo monster featured on the Kelowna Rockets brand (left) is nearly identical to the dragon on the San Antonio Dragons logo (right).
Image Credit: Wikipedia
“There will definitely be some cost, just the gym floor itself will be a few thousand to sand the centre piece, paint the new logo on and refinish the floor,” he says.
The school will still keep an owl as their choice mascot. “There's no intention of changing the owl, it will just be a different owl logo,” he says.
You are currently viewing our boards as a guest which gives you limited access to view most discussions and access our other features. By joining our free community you will have access to post topics, communicate privately with other members (PM), respond to polls, upload content and access many other special features. Registration is fast, simple and absolutely free so please, join our community today!
The banners on the left side and below do not show for registered users!
