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Google Rejected Logos

Posted by Administrator on Saturday, January 19, 2008, 17:46
This news item was posted in Cool Stuff category and has 8 Comments so far.

Google Rejected Logo 1

Supposed to be celebrating: Children’s Day 2003.
Reason for rejection: Too childish.

Google Rejected Logo 2

Supposed to be celebrating: 150 Years of Cigarettes.
Reason for rejection: Too politically incorrect.

Google Rejected Logo 3

Supposed to be celebrating: 50th Anniversary of Product Placement.
Reason for rejection: Starbucks didn’t pay enough.

Google Rejected Logo 4

Supposed to be celebrating: 5 Years of Google motto “Don’t be evil.”
Reason for rejection: Too self-obsessed.

Google Rejected Logo 5

Supposed to be celebrating: 130th Birthday of Mondrian.
Reason for rejection: Too abstract.

Google Rejected Logo 6

Supposed to be celebrating: 90th Anniversary of the Copyright Act.
Reason for rejection: Potential trademark infringement for using the © symbol.

Google Rejected Logo 7

Supposed to be celebrating: 20th Anniversary of the Nintendo Entertainment System.
Reason for rejection: Severe complaints by the Pet Duck Association.

Google Rejected Logo 8

Supposed to be celebrating: The 65th Birthday of Googol, a 1 with 100 zeroes.
Reason for rejection: Too geeky.

Google Rejected Logo 9

Supposed to be celebrating: This was one of two drafts to honor M.C. Escher.
Reason for rejection: Too creepy

Google Rejected Logo 10

Supposed to be celebrating: Two decades of the JPEG image compression algorithm.
Reason for rejection: Compression too lossy.

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8 Responses to “Google Rejected Logos”

  1. 2008.01.21 00:16

    Very funny!

  2. nicholaspaul
    2008.01.21 03:48

    Brilliant! Thanks for the laugh. This kind of thing should be a competition so we could all submit (those who have the time, so that counts me out..)

  3. Andrew P
    2008.01.21 03:51

    I wonder who reviewed and rejected these logos

  4. 2008.01.21 20:02

    Lolz! Great post, thanks!

  5. 2008.01.24 08:54

    it seems that they just wanted to retain the standard logo… that’s why they have so many reason for rejections… but it looks cool…

  6. 2008.01.31 23:58

    Oh comeon, i can´t see why either of those was rejected. Damn the world has become a complaining and bitchin about EVERYTHING, rights here and there….too this and too that! OOooo, haven´t people noticed, that the human being is becoming more and more sensitive, both mentally and physically… damn it :D PEACE OUtm, i liked all of those, especially the jpeg compression thingy ;D it had an in your face atitude

  7. 2008.02.05 12:51

    LMFAO that was very funny! Very hard work to compile all those logos IMO.

    Nice job, well done.

  8. 2008.03.20 11:49

    oh really unbelivable

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