NW Natural Bring the Heat Contest Video

I have been out of the game a little bit as of late as I am now working and blogging at Magneto Brand Advertising, an ad agency based out of Portland, OR. We recently helped our client, NW Natural launch a music video contest. In doing so we had the opportunity to create a pretty neat mockumentary style video about a couple making their contest entry.

To learn more about the contest and all Magneto did for it check out: Magneto's Blog

Check out the humorous video:

Logo Fails

Sometimes a truly horrendous logo slips through the cracks and makes it into circulation.  Who designed or approved of these logos, I am not sure, but I have noted that coincidentally several of them have a phallic appearance or sexual innuendos. 

Locum, a Swedish property management company.  No, it is not always a good idea to replace letters with hearts.  In fact it is almost never a good idea.

Logo designed in 1973 for the Catholic Church's Archdiocesan Youth Commission.  It won an award from the Art Directors Club of Los Angeles. Bravo.

Forget about bad cell reception.  Mont-Sat's got you covered. 

While not inappropriate, the sheer awfulness of these get me every time: 
The Detroit Tigers logo 1901-1902 aka an amorphous blob that slightly resembles a 4 legged creature.

1927-1928 this gem was used.  There are too many words.

They finally got it right 1934-1960 when this guy was let loose.  Right?

Don't worry Tigers - you were not the only team to have terrible accompanying logos.
What is this you ask?  Why it is a Red Sox player.  You see it now, the red sock for a head - GENIUS POINT!

Or what I like to call the digitally remastered Cubs logo from 1916. 

Poor font choice (Megaflicks)

Unfortunate spacing issues (Kids Exchange)

Layout fail (Parents magazine)

Just plain bad taste

I'm not sure what the appeal of these stick figures are, but they seem to be a surefire way to produce an unfortunate logo:

Right in the chest, that must sting.

Nothing quite gives you that feeling of security like someone cupping your breasts. 

Not your average dentist.

The less said about this the better

(Insert penis joke)

Apparently not so speedy anymore?

Annnnnd just to finish things off why not throw in a few unfortunate ad placements.