WTF Cranston RI (c'mon, this in no way follows Swamp SOP)

[rass]

WTF Cranston?

[Jerloma]

We do a great job pulling in national headlines for such a small state.

[L-Jam3]

Jesus Christ, man. I thought Brian Cranston died. Can you add an "RI" after that in the thread title?

[BSF21]

Jesus Christ, man. I thought Brian Cranston died. Can you add an "RI" after that in the thread title?

Same. Shit man.

[howard]

I think the 'WTF' was sufficient notice this was not a death notice, imo.

[L-Jam3]

Is adding "WTF" in front a city name a thing here?

[BSF21]

I think the 'WTF' was sufficient notice this was not a death notice, imo.

The way well known people have been dropping, I took it as, "WTF, now Cranston?"

[Jerloma]

Holy fuck, people. So you thought there was a chance Bryan Cranston died for like 2 seconds. Move on.

[mister d]

God, J-Lo, can you imagine all of the facebook and twitter comments about him? I bet some people wouldn't have even watched Breaking Bad. Get over it you vapid shits, just a dead celebrity!

[brian]

Even with the caveat, I was duped as well, so I made an executive decision to edit the thread title. I hardly think it diminishes the idea.

[rass]

BTW, did you guys (and Moreta!) click on the link? Did you see the dude and the little hand written "I'm an old person" tag stuck on his coat?

WTF?

[Nonlinear FC]

Yeah, lost in all of the thread title hand-wringing... Is a dude pretending to be a hand-wringing old lady at a political rally.

Ideocracy.

[Moreta]

I clicked. I even read the comments (even though I know better) and I was amused.

I know some people in small municipality elected positions and I can see many of them doing exactly this.

[Pruitt]

It's only January, but this story will be very hard to top this year.

Fantastic.

[rass]

As PDX would put it: designers being designers on the new RI logo

[P.D.X.]

Yeah that's awful.

[Ryan]

Not bad for a French Polynesian postage stamp from 1956.

[Jerloma]

On top of that awful logo, they made a video for this campaign and they used a scene from fucking Iceland.

[Ryan]

An actual island

(I know)

[The Sybian]

Not bad for a French Polynesian postage stamp from 1956.

I was thinking tourist t-shirt from 1992, but yours works. I don't even understand the message, what are cooler and warmer referring to? The logo makes me forget how much fun I had visiting a friend in Providence, how awesome it was taking his friends boat to Newport and partying with people in other boats, and how much I enjoyed a trip to the robber-baron mansions. The money would have been much better spent bailing out a failing video game company.

[Jerloma]

It's supposed to mean that we're like progressive and hip but also warm and inviting. The guy who designed the I APPLE NY logo did it.

That's another thing. She's spending 5.5 million on this tourism campaign to help our businesses and then she hires a New York firm to do the logo and the website. We have one on the best graphic design schools in the world like 3 blocks from the fucking State House.

[sancarlos]

Not bad for a French Polynesian postage stamp from 1956.

I was thinking tourist t-shirt from 1992, but yours works. I don't even understand the message, what are cooler and warmer referring to? The logo makes me forget how much fun I had visiting a friend in Providence, how awesome it was taking his friends boat to Newport and partying with people in other boats, and how much I enjoyed a trip to the robber-baron mansions. The money would have been much better spent bailing out a failing video game company.

Cooler, as in Steph Curry is cooler than Curt Schilling. Warmer, as in Rass is warmer than Doug Rugby.

[Ryan]

We have one on the best graphic design schools in the world like 3 blocks from the fucking State House.

[P.D.X.]

It's supposed to mean that we're like progressive and hip but also warm and inviting. The guy who designed the I APPLE NY logo did it.

Milton Glaser may just be the most heralded American graphic designer of all time, but this was an airball.

This was the logo for NY:

[Jerloma]

For some reason I thought they used an apple instead of a heart.

[P.D.X.]

RI's chief marketing person resigns over new campaign.