30 MORE Awful Logos from Companies with Cliche Names – BBD Vol. 4

October 6 2010, 8:00am

If this blog was a TV show, I would be on a spaceship with two talking robots and some mean lady and a gorilla would force me to look at every By Design logo ever made before I can return home. That’s not the case, so I couldn’t really tell you why I keep putting myself through this. You’re welcome. Catch up! Here’s Volume 1, Volume 2, and Volume 3 of Barfy By Design. You can also view all the posts together using the By Design tag. (Volume 5 is forthcoming. Yes I’m serious.)

A) Only characters on Frasier say “superb”. B) It is a miracle that I was even able to discern the word “superb” from that hot mess.

We’re such big Chargers fans we stole their lightning bolt twice.

Another double cliche: by design and barrel-of-monkeys letters.

Get a few whiskeys in me and I’ll start preaching by accident.

Doggies By Design. This woman receives checks written out to “Doggies By Design”.

“Design to sell.” — Advice NOT given to her graphic designer.

Think about it. Keep thinking. You’ll get why this is so horrible, I have faith in you.

What an original name, that took some smarts alright.

Kids: don’t limit yourself to one terrible design decision. If someone tells you you can’t have a cliched name, a terrible font, pixelization, clipart, unnecessary textures, and a nearly illegible meaningless tagline, you say, “But what about Landscapes by Design?”

Giggity.

Old timey alarm clocks, apples, and egg dollars: the building blocks of any strong family.

Ahahahahahaha. Okay.

If they’re my words why do you need to design them? Also, quill and ink, very original choice. You must have hired Smarts By Design for help with that.

Okay, seriously WTF. Is there some technical college design textbook that says “use an out of control fire in fire prevention logos”? There are so many of these.

I’m always down for dancing that involves double-D’s.

I’m not an expert on what is and is not sacrilegious, so I’ll just leave it implied.

“Web By Design – When You Need Graphics for the Computers in your InterTubes Dot Com”

So this is for a company that literally helps enable disabled people through good design. Okay, fine. It’s still cliche and your logo is still kind of not great.

“Oh yes ma’am, that price is by design. The furniture? We just kind of wing that.”

Mix some greenwashing cliches with the by design cliche and you’ve got one forgettable logo!

“Joey. Letsa meeta by-a de sign for some dinner. We’ll have dinner by de sign. We’ll-a eat some spaghett.”

Woosh! The wooshes represent the sound made by your life passing you by.

The type looks like it was airbrushed on the side of a van.

Can I use my double-d’s joke again? I can? Awesome.

I’m curious why this thing is so fucking dark.

Purple on pink and scripty as shit. That says elegance alright. It’s a little hard to make out, but the “@cablespeed.com” email address is pretty classy, too.

It’s a logo, I promise. Construction by Design. Obvious, isn’t it?

They get points for not wasting time overdesigning a completely cliche name.

“By Design Multimedia” aka LIGHTNING BOLTS AND GRADIENTS WHOOOOO

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