Island Life: I can see clearly now
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(My tooth aches and I will not be seeing a dentist until later in the day. Crotchety commenting may result.)
I'm now stuck with this image of you having only one tooth.
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Does New York have a logo?
Does London have a logo?
Does Paris have a logo?
Hell, does Sydney have a logo?I would be very surprised if London and Paris didn't have a logo, most European cities do. By way of example, Rome has two babies suckling on a wolf's teats, Turin has the bull, Venice has the winged lion, Florence has the lily.
And my hometown of Milan has a serpent in the act of eating (or possibly spitting out, it's hard to say) a child. I'd like to point out that I wasn't involved in that particular choice.
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Does London have a logo?
If London has a logo, it's the Underground logo.
Does any city of any note anywhere in the world have a logo you can remember?
I'm not buying the idea that if another city doesn't have something that Auckland has, this means that Auckland is the one doing it wrong, not the other way around.
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I'm not buying the idea that if another city doesn't have something that Auckland has, this means that Auckland is the one doing it wrong, not the other way around.
I agree. The logo is a stupid idea because it's a stupid idea, not because other cities aren't doing it. Also, if we're at the edge, can somebody explain to me why the logo is fraying like that? The message that it conveys to me is, Auckland: if somebody pulls the thread we're fucked.
Hey, so maybe now we have a slogan too.
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Like Robyn, I also like the logo. When I first saw it in the NZ Herald story I thought "Hmmmm?" but then I turned the page and saw it used on a half page ARC ad. It actually works when you see it in that context. The following day they ran another ad (a different one) and it worked there too.
That said, it did also seem to me to be a throw back to the logo the Auckland A's (now the Auckland Blues) had in the 90s. If we're going to use the 'A' (someone's obviously following the KISS principle) then what a pity we couldn't co-opt the Radio Active '@' logo. (By co-opt I don't mean 'steal' - we could pay them what we paid Triangle TV for their logo).
But anyway, as we speak, a PR flunkie is writing a report on how the logo has been recieved and is now including the words: "... and also inspired many pages of spirited debate on the prestigious Public Adddress website, with the majority of comments being overwhelmingly positive ..."
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BTW - when I say 'like' i mean i don't hate it.
Like wot i told your mama last night before I called her a taxi... -
I could understand weaving, but fraying thread is surely decaying not creating?
And what is the dominant letter for "Auckland" in all the languages of this city, not just English?
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Every time I read something like this from some advertising slime I am inevitably reminded of the words of wisdom of Bill Hicks:
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Better link to City of Sydney logo
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Yes, London's really good at logos...
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but I also quite like the logo. It's certainly a lot livelier than ours.
Could we change the Wellington one to incorporate the Ranfurly Shield in some way....
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New York has a flag, a logo and a seal.
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New York has a flag, a logo and a seal.
Wellington has lots of seals!
Could we change the Wellington one to incorporate the Ranfurly Shield in some way....
And then change it back again when we lose it.
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Please - no oxygen for Kevin Roberts. I skimmed a copy of Lovemarks. It was brain-searingly awful up there with (no, worse than) Vogon poetry and something like I imagine the glossy creationst publications of Harun Yahya. Don't ever give KR Scientology material - he will want to start his own religion too: Love-ology, and ooh we have all these volcanies too!!!
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And then change it back again when we lose it.
Maybe that's the answer for all cities - when you win the shield you get to make it your logo. It would be cheaper that way.
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That Listener cover: "Did Hitler use P?"
They are taking the piss, right? Right?
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They are taking the piss, right? Right?
Cancelled my subscription in the nick of time!
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Top skills, logo finders. Now, who just knew those logos, and didn't google for them?
My point is not that logos are useless, but that they don't deserve to have public resources thrown at them in any quantity. They don't actually contribute to the brand of the city, and the few that are recognisable are based in images that were already iconic for the city.
Giovanni: I know the wolf suckling Romulus and Remus, and Bull etc are iconic images for those cities, but all I could see when searching around for things with an official imprimatur were bland-looking coats of arms that didn't feature those images.
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Giovanni: I know the wolf suckling Romulus and Remus, and Bull etc are iconic images for those cities, but all I could see when searching around for things with an official imprimatur were bland-looking coats of arms that didn't feature those images.
No, the symbols I have described are strongly associated with the relevant cities (much more than their coats of arms, etc.) and are used in all sorts of promotional material or to signify where a sports team, group or product is from. You'll find for instance Milan's serpent, Venice's lion or Verona's ladder on coffee machines in bars around New Zealand.
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Pressed "reply" too quickly. The mayoralties have their own symbols (generally a coat of arms), which sometimes isn't the same as the city's itself, although it often incorporates it (as in the case of the lily of Florence). But then the promotional material issued by the city always has the iconic symbol in it, not the coat of arms.
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Actually Josh, they are right. Hitler's doctor Theo Morrell doped him up with all sorts of junk, including methamphetamine.
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That Listener cover: "Did Hitler use P?"
They are taking the piss, right? Right?They remembered it from a blog they read.
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Oh, I don't doubt that it's true -- everyone was on amphetamines in WWII. How it's in any way relevant to P use in modern day NZ, I'm not quite sure...
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I'm fairly confident that the late Idi Amin wasn't doing much P, though.
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