Supposed to be celebrating: Children’s Day 2003.
Reason for rejection: Too childish.
Supposed to be celebrating: 150 Years of Cigarettes.
Reason for rejection: Too politically incorrect.
Supposed to be celebrating: 50th Anniversary of Product Placement.
Reason for rejection: Starbucks didn’t pay enough.
Supposed to be celebrating: 5 Years of Google motto “Don’t be evil.”
Reason for rejection: Too self-obsessed.
Supposed to be celebrating: 130th Birthday of Mondrian.
Reason for rejection: Too abstract.
Supposed to be celebrating: 90th Anniversary of the Copyright Act.
Reason for rejection: Potential trademark infringement for using the © symbol.
Supposed to be celebrating: 20th Anniversary of the Nintendo Entertainment System.
Reason for rejection: Severe complaints by the Pet Duck Association.
Supposed to be celebrating: The 65th Birthday of Googol, a 1 with 100 zeroes.
Reason for rejection: Too geeky.
Supposed to be celebrating: This was one of two drafts to honor M.C. Escher.
Reason for rejection: Too creepy
Supposed to be celebrating: Two decades of the JPEG image compression algorithm.
Reason for rejection: Compression too lossy.
January 21st, 2008 at 12:16 am
Very funny!
January 21st, 2008 at 3:48 am
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..)
January 21st, 2008 at 3:51 am
I wonder who reviewed and rejected these logos
January 21st, 2008 at 8:02 pm
Lolz! Great post, thanks!
January 24th, 2008 at 8:54 am
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…
January 31st, 2008 at 11:58 pm
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
PEACE OUtm, i liked all of those, especially the jpeg compression thingy ;D it had an in your face atitude
February 5th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
LMFAO that was very funny! Very hard work to compile all those logos IMO.
Nice job, well done.
March 20th, 2008 at 11:49 am
oh really unbelivable