And the "Worst Logo of theYear" award goes to RAGTIME

[Yankeefan007]

And the "Worst Logo of theYear" award goes to RAGTIME#1

Posted: 8/6/09 at 7:21am

[nearthestage]

re: And the 'Worst Logo of theYear' award goes to RAGTIME#2

Posted: 8/6/09 at 7:26am

No disagreement here. Horrible.

[HollyGolightly2]

re: And the 'Worst Logo of theYear' award goes to RAGTIME#2

Posted: 8/6/09 at 7:28am

The sepia tone is icky. It looks more like peepee-a tone..

Black and white would look so much nicer.

[Gingersnap2]

re: And the 'Worst Logo of theYear' award goes to RAGTIME#3

Posted: 8/6/09 at 8:08am

Normally, I like sepia-toned antique photos.

But this is just drab. And the colored graphics just look amateur.

[BrodyFosse123]

re: And the 'Worst Logo of theYear' award goes to RAGTIME#4

Posted: 8/6/09 at 8:21am

Screw you all. My neighbor's 4 year old son did that logo. It took him about an hour, between distractions from Spongebob Squarepants and his WII.

Geez! Give the kid a break!

[James885]

re: And the 'Worst Logo of theYear' award goes to RAGTIME#5

Posted: 8/6/09 at 8:50am

Oh my gosh, that is awful! They should just use the logo from the original production.

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[Chrysanthemum62001]

re: And the 'Worst Logo of theYear' award goes to RAGTIME#6

Posted: 8/6/09 at 8:50am

I do not understand. Maybe they will change it.

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[orangeskittles]

re: And the 'Worst Logo of theYear' award goes to RAGTIME#7

Posted: 8/6/09 at 9:07am

That's what they used at the Kennedy Center.

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[desiree armfeldt]

re: And the 'Worst Logo of theYear' award goes to RAGTIME#8

Posted: 8/6/09 at 9:16am

It's atrocious! I love sepia and I think red/blue make sense, but the two don't blend at all!

[Sauja]

re: And the 'Worst Logo of theYear' award goes to RAGTIME#9

Posted: 8/6/09 at 9:22am

It looks like the cover of a self-published novel. Truly unfortunate.

[Smaxie]

re: And the 'Worst Logo of theYear' award goes to RAGTIME#10

Posted: 8/6/09 at 9:29am

That's the logo from the Kennedy Center. It's not the logo for the Broadway production.

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[BroadwayBound062]

re: And the 'Worst Logo of theYear' award goes to RAGTIME#11

Posted: 8/6/09 at 9:38am

Let's hope not.

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[Marianne2]

re: And the 'Worst Logo of theYear' award goes to RAGTIME#12

Posted: 8/6/09 at 9:38am

Regardless of what production it's for, the lettering reminds me of what was used in Grease the movie.

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[tazber]

re: And the 'Worst Logo of theYear' award goes to RAGTIME#13

Posted: 8/6/09 at 9:46am

Awful. Not enticing in the least.

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[TulitaPepsi]

re: And the 'Worst Logo of theYear' award goes to RAGTIME#14

Posted: 8/6/09 at 9:47am

For me, the main problem is the typeface - it's too early, dating from the 1870s-1880s. And its badly placed, spaced and is too large for the 'window' that holds it.

I like the idea of sepia, but it does make the poster look awfully drab.

I think the FINIANS RAINBOW logo is equally bad.

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Updated On: 8/6/09 at 09:47 AM

[best12bars]

re: And the 'Worst Logo of theYear' award goes to RAGTIME#15

Posted: 8/6/09 at 9:49am

Wow, that's ugly.

"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."

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[winston89]

re: And the 'Worst Logo of theYear' award goes to RAGTIME#16

Posted: 8/6/09 at 9:58am

That makes me think of a that a school would use for their production of the show and not one that is slated for Broadway.

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[fgreene1938]

re: And the 'Worst Logo of theYear' award goes to RAGTIME#17

Posted: 8/6/09 at 10:26am

That's definitely a low-budget poster. Hopefully, the BW production will have a better one.

[best12bars]

re: And the 'Worst Logo of theYear' award goes to RAGTIME#18

Posted: 8/6/09 at 10:39am

It looks like it was designed and approved by people who have never seen the show.


EDIT: Or never listened to ragtime music, for that matter.

"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."

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Updated On: 8/6/09 at 10:39 AM

[orangeskittles]

re: And the 'Worst Logo of theYear' award goes to RAGTIME#19

Posted: 8/6/09 at 10:43am

For me, the main problem is the typeface - it's too early, dating from the 1870s-1880s.

If it were too late, I could see the problem, but just because the typeface was from the 1880s doesn't mean it couldn't have been used 20 years later in the time period of the show. That's like saying Times New Roman can't be used for contemporary shows. It's not like people just give up and stop using them ten years after they were designed.


Kennedy Center posters have never been attractive. I have four windowcards from the Sondheim Celebration. Sunday and Passion are good graphically, but Merrily and Sweeney are just plain ugly.

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Wanting life but never knowing how

Updated On: 8/6/09 at 10:43 AM

[CurtisTaylorJr2]

re: And the 'Worst Logo of theYear' award goes to RAGTIME#20

Posted: 8/6/09 at 10:52am

I've seen better work done by people who use Microsoft Paint.

[Marianne2]

re: And the 'Worst Logo of theYear' award goes to RAGTIME#21

Posted: 8/6/09 at 11:40am

I think if the font and color were changed a bit, and that blue box behind the title was gone, it wouldn't be so bad. It's the blue box that really stands out, in my opinion.

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[LizzieCurry]

re: And the 'Worst Logo of theYear' award goes to RAGTIME#22

Posted: 8/6/09 at 12:03pm

I swear that red is THE default red that comes up when you click the "stroke" filter. Ugh!

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[taylorPHENOMENON2]

re: And the 'Worst Logo of theYear' award goes to RAGTIME#23

Posted: 8/6/09 at 12:12pm

Breaking the bank

[snowskittle]

re: And the 'Worst Logo of theYear' award goes to RAGTIME#24

Posted: 8/6/09 at 12:18pm

Hope it's not a bad omen.