And now I'm trying to see if anyone posted enough of WRIC's 1990-1996 music to identify the package. This clip looks like it's as close as I'm going to get, for now.
My suspicion now is that it's a custom Non-Stop package that isn't listed anywhere. The parts I can remember of it (including this tiny bit) remind me a lot of First News or News Central.
Just looking at it, you can instantly picture what demographic they're going at, what brands they were trying to copy, what their commercials will look like and even what their narrator will sound like. I guess it succeeded on that front...
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
The people who point out the "inappropriateness" make me want to smack them.
As foe the new one...it's okay, I guess. Not nearly as memorable, and I'm gonna miss the delightfully dated '80s type.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
One thing I do like is that they finally fixed the border--look at a real yellow road sign; the black border is slightly inset from the edge.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
In retrospect that was a bad example to open with; none of the current big players in traffic control really have good logos. I only started with that one because it was the only such photo that I've taken...
Let's look at some historical traffic signal logos instead, with the help of Google Images.
Here's one from Eagle Signal:
Siemens still uses a variation of it on their polycarbonate signals to this day. Of note is the name "DURASIG", which is still cast on new signals despite the trademark technically lapsing in 1993:
I don't know how well you can make it out, but there's an older Eagle logo on this lens. Instead of an eagle, it's two semaphore flags with "STOP" and "GO" on them:
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I like eagles as a visual device because they're a (relatively) subtle way to brand something as "American" without resorting to covering everything in stripes and stars.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Honestly I always found the 1993 one hard to recognize as an eagle...
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
My mind has issues with the negative/positive space in it. I can't help but view all the blue as the background and all the white as the foreground even though it doesn't form a coherent image that way.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
This is one of those ones that's gotten progressively worse over the years:
The second one was vaguely clever, since it combined the existing Children's Hospital logo with the Nationwide Insurance logo (even though I despise the hospital's corporate name change), but the third one...what? Butterflies? I don't even...
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Also, replacing that beautiful script "Children's" with Trajan was a sin.
That last logo with the butterflies makes me think of, like, an old greetings card? I dunno. Something from another era that was never meant to be a logo.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
The butterflies remind me of something you might see on the wall in a small child's bedroom, somehow.
Which I guess is an appropriate association for a children's hospital, but as a logo it's not very good from a technical perspective. It doesn't reproduce well in non-digital media, for starters.
Doctor Who reference in Pokemon B2W2? Headcanon accepted.
maybe they're doing this because printing logos to slap on signs/vehicles/cards/etc isn't limited a few primary, separate colors anymore. Personally I wish they'd stop this shit and go back to keeping it simple
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
The one other thing I notice about the butterfly logo is that they shrunk the Nationwide Insurance logo way down.
I imagine this was intentional; everyone in the community disliked the rename and I've heard most people at the hospital did too.
I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
Things getting corporate name changes is weird to me...I tend to excuse it if the sponsor is locally-based, though (e.g. Heinz Field, Target Arena/Field)...is that bad?
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Nationwide is locally-based, FWIW.
While I dislike the name change, I can't exactly blame them for it. There's a bit of a "beggars can't be choosers" element to it--if you're a nonprofit and some big corporation says "here's $50 million, now name your hospital after us" you can't exactly turn them down, you know?
Of course, this is also the hospital that wanted to name their new emergency room The Abercrombie & Fitch Emergency Department and Trauma Center until they faced a public backlash.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I knew you knew, but I didn't know if the other people reading did.
Nationwide Arena's name doesn't bother me because they owned it outright for the first 12 years of its existence. I kinda wonder why the county hasn't changed it yet, but I guess there's an amount of name recognition there that they don't want to give up.
As for the emergency room: the main objection from the public wasn't even that it was named after a corporation, but that A&F has a history of sexualized marketing featuring underage girls and that this wasn't appropriate for a children's hospital.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I'm increasingly associating "generic corporate" with Gotham, which is a shame, considering the typeface's origin.
I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
I know it.
I want the typeface to be an enduring classic but I worry that in 5-10 years it will be looked upon scornfully as old and busted and worn out and everyone will have moved on to the next hot sans serif to shove everywhere...I've seen phrases like "Gotham is the new Meta is the new Helvetica", but FF Meta and Helvetica continue to have a place in contemporary design so maybe the future's not so dim for Gotham.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Helvetica weirds me out at times because it's just SO OMNIPRESENT in a way that no other typeface really seems to be.
As for Gotham: I also hope it will become an enduring classic, even if part of me worries that it'll be stamped with "that's so 2010" in a few years. It does have the advantage of being associated with a highly successful presidential campaign, so there'll be at least little bits of it in history books! :P
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Just looking at it, you can instantly picture what demographic they're going at, what brands they were trying to copy, what their commercials will look like and even what their narrator will sound like. I guess it succeeded on that front...
Wow, another corporate giant changed their logo to some streamlined late-aughties thing, but this time I'm completely cool with it.
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As foe the new one...it's okay, I guess. Not nearly as memorable, and I'm gonna miss the delightfully dated '80s type.
Which is appropriate but still.
That last logo with the butterflies makes me think of, like, an old greetings card? I dunno. Something from another era that was never meant to be a logo.
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