Logo Error...penis....
Logo Error...penis....
MeMeMeee
Understudy Joined: 3/26/08
#1Logo Error...penis....
Posted: 4/24/08 at 11:21am
It cost £14,000 to create, but clearly no-one at the smart London design outfit that came up with the new logo for HM Treasury thought to turn it on its side.
The logo, for the Office of Government Commerce, was intended to signify a bold commitment to the body’s aim of “improving value for money by driving up standards and capability in procurement”.
Instead, it has generated howls of mirth and what is likely to be a barrage of teasing emails from mandarins in other departments.
According to insiders, the graphic was already proudly etched on mousemats and pens before it was unveiled for employees, who spotted the clanger within seconds.
Staff have apparently now stripped their office of souvenirs bearing the logo, which could appear on eBay within days.
A spokesman for OGC said: “It is true that it caused a few titters among some staff when viewed on its side, but on consideration we concluded that the effect was generic to the particular combination of the letters OGC - and it is not inappropriate to an organisation that’s looking to have a firm grip on Government spend.”
The OGC was created in the early days of the Blair Government when the premier brought in Peter Gershon from GEC Marconi to improve spending efficiency.
His Gershon Report recommended the creation of the OGC and he became its chief executive for its first four years.
OGC now has a staff of 564 with a head office in Norwich and other branches in London, Leeds and Edinburgh.
OGC unveils new logo to red faces
#2re: Logo Error...penis....
Posted: 4/24/08 at 11:56amROFLMAO!
wexy
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/19/05
#2re: Logo Error...penis....
Posted: 4/24/08 at 11:59am
Perfect for us government workers, we're always playing with ourselves 
Namaste
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/24/08
#3re: Logo Error...penis....
Posted: 4/24/08 at 12:56pm
This is supposed to be a penis?
God, I hope I never run into a fella with one shaped like that.
#4re: Logo Error...penis....
Posted: 4/24/08 at 1:00pmIt's depicts a guy playing with himself...and I bet it was intentional.
"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS
vmlinnie
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/06
#5re: Logo Error...penis....
Posted: 4/24/08 at 1:01pm
No. The top circle is the head, the middle one is the arms, and the bottom the legs. He's getting aquainted with himself.
Namaste, with a name like that, are you Buddhist, or something?
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
Namaste
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/24/08
#6re: Logo Error...penis....
Posted: 4/24/08 at 1:02pm
Ohh. I see.
The stem in "G" is the love stick.
Well, that makes more sense.
When I first looked at it I saw a minor rendering of a sex toy.
#7re: Logo Error...penis....
Posted: 4/24/08 at 1:03pmI thought it was a snowman with an erection
Namaste
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/24/08
#8re: Logo Error...penis....
Posted: 4/24/08 at 1:39pm
Yeah! It does look like Frosty is a jolly man, they say!
(Linnie, I have a "Namasté sticker on my bulletin board, and I needed to create a username. It's a Sanskrit word that means "I bow to you", and we say it in Yoga. I was feeling very uncreative last night when I created the username.)
#9re: Logo Error...penis....
Posted: 4/24/08 at 1:43pmToo funny.
Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. - Randy Pausch
#10re: Logo Error...penis....
Posted: 4/24/08 at 4:19pmI didn't see it at first either. I think they're making a bigger deal out of it than it is.
Namaste
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/24/08
#11re: Logo Error...penis....
Posted: 4/24/08 at 4:22pm
Now that I've been told it's a guy grabbing his joy stick, it's all I see.
I REALLY only saw a OGC sideways before.
The power of suggestion...
#12re: Logo Error...penis....
Posted: 4/24/08 at 4:22pmWhich is the whole point. It's advertising, after all.
"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS
#13re: Logo Error...penis....
Posted: 4/24/08 at 5:01pmI have been showing the logo around the office. It's fun to watch people's faces as they realize what they are seeing!
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#14re: Logo Error...penis....
Posted: 4/24/08 at 5:22pm
Good way to get fired, Billy...
Very funny!
#15re: Logo Error...penis....
Posted: 4/24/08 at 5:41pmNah, not at this place. I showed it to our senior pastor; she howled!
#16re: Logo Error...penis....
Posted: 4/24/08 at 5:53pm
Why does this remind me of the Camel on the package...?
"Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana." GMarx
Wildcard
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/21/06
#17re: Logo Error...penis....
Posted: 4/24/08 at 8:27pmI showed it around my work place too. We design some logos for a living. Everyone got a good laugh out of it.
#18re: Logo Error...penis....
Posted: 4/24/08 at 9:19pmFor somereason when i read this thread title i thought it was gonna be about an error on the LOGO network that allowed a penis to appear during on of its gay shows
#19re: Logo Error...penis....
Posted: 4/24/08 at 10:26pmI will confess that I had to look at the logo for about 2 mins before I figured out what I was looking at (it has been a very long day). Then I realized and fell out of my chair.
MeMeMeee
Understudy Joined: 3/26/08
#20re: Logo Error...penis....
Posted: 4/25/08 at 8:47am
Hilarious..As soon as I saw the article, I had to share it!
so funny!
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