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  • i_monk

    http://torontoist.com/attachments/Sarah%20Prickett/AGO-Lockdown-CMYK_clip_640.jpg

    Designer: Bruce Mau

    Client: Art Gallery of Ontario

    Due: May 15, 2008

    Creative Brief: Design a "distinctive new logo that will represent the Gallery well beyond its Fall 2008 opening." Logo should capture "both the stability of the century-old institution and the forward-looking energy of the new Gallery."

    (If that proves too challenging, refer to graphic design portfolio created while at OCAD, circa 1977.)

    Creative Tasklist:

    1. Open MS Word.

    2. Choose primary font. Helvetica? Too advertisement-y. Verdana? Too webby. IMPACT? Done!

    3. Art meets fashion: borrow colour palette from H & M Spring/Summer 2008.

    4. Open MS Paint. Also, a serious bottle of whiskey.

    5. Copy. Paste. Click. Drag. Over. And over.

    6. LSD flashback!

    7. Examine finished product. Worry someone might think it's a joke. Remember that you are very Big in Toronto and could probably shit out the letters AGO and get an award for it.

    (stolen from http://torontoist.com/2008/05/ag… )

    May 15, 08, 9:37 a.m. – Permalink
  • Jaline

    my eyes!

    • ... the goggles... they do nothing...TaylorB1/2
      hahaha! nice one!OSFA2/2
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    Dog-earMay 15, 08, 9:39 a.m. – Permalink
  • brains

    Holy jesus that's awful.

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    Dog-earMay 15, 08, 9:39 a.m. – Permalink
  • Jnr_Madison

    My mind, it's just blew.

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    Dog-earMay 15, 08, 9:40 a.m. – Permalink
  • moamoa

    Bruce Mau is a good designer, but not sure about this AGO thing.

    http://www.brucemaudesign.com/to…

    • no.
      bruce mau is crap.
      Dennis_Moore1/4
      Dennis is spot on...neue75_bold2/4
      once worked with a client that had Mau's team do website for them...they fucking HATED his work...exador13/4
      Bruce Mau and his team seem to get a lot of press etc...but personally i haven't seen much of the talent yet..exador14/4
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    Dog-earMay 15, 08, 9:41 a.m. – Permalink
  • Jaline

    I thought of the London Olympics logo right away.

    • they don't look alike but there's an explosion of colour.Jaline
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    Dog-earMay 15, 08, 9:41 a.m. – Permalink
  • pascii

    there's allways clients involved...

    • Yeah and the client is an ART gallery, not a pet store. They have no excuse.i_monk1/7
      The fact that they are art gallery is no excuse. That doesn't validate them or change the fact they may have given bad feedback/input.2cents2/7
      feedback/input.2cents3/7
      he always ignores his clients, which is great for other studios who they get to clean up his mess afterwards...neue75_bold4/7
      gosh I'm so angry I can't type, better go home...neue75_bold5/7
      I'm so with you on that neue75...
      I had to work over a concept for a website that had been done by him and his team....
      exador16/7
      by Mau and his team...there work was some of the worst i've ever seenexador17/7
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    Dog-earMay 15, 08, 9:42 a.m. – Permalink
  • Llyod

    shit sandwich

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    Dog-earMay 15, 08, 9:43 a.m. – Permalink
  • YAYPaul

    My eyes are having a fit right now.

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    Dog-earMay 15, 08, 9:43 a.m. – Permalink
  • avolve

    Creativeless.

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    Dog-earMay 15, 08, 9:45 a.m. – Permalink
  • akrokdesign

    Bruce Mau now also going for the "new ugly" design. Damn!

    *notify the QBN police. lol.

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    Dog-earMay 15, 08, 10:41 a.m. – Permalink
  • flashbender

    http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/its-beautiful.jpg

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    Dog-earMay 15, 08, 10:43 a.m. – Permalink
  • Dr_Rand

    haters

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    Dog-earMay 15, 08, 10:44 a.m. – Permalink
  • neue75_bold

    Don't believe the hype and the shit he writes/has other people write/steal, he's a wanker, and by no means a role model for any designer... the hamburgler of canadian design, a fraud, a phony and a plagiarist...

    this is just another fine example...

    • who shit on your chest?Jnr_Madison1/7
      Bruce, a big belgian steamer... years ago, it's white now, but still fresh in my mind...neue75_bold2/7
      pisc? HD video?Jnr_Madison3/7
      maybe his stylist caught the grunts on DAT...neue75_bold4/7
      _youtube/stinkneue75_bold5/7
      Neue is spot on.Dennis_Moore6/7
      it's white now, hahahaha!
      dog poop used to be white.
      i_monk7/7
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    Dog-earMay 15, 08, 10:46 a.m. – Permalink
  • dan5382

    Like the concept.....but uh yeah Impact.....Way too much impact.

    • what concept might that be?neue75_bold1/3
      the appearance of possibly having a conceptDr_Rand2/3
      what concept???

      tank023/3
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    Dog-earMay 15, 08, 11:11 a.m. – Permalink
  • imnotadesigner

    pure caca!

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    Dog-earMay 15, 08, 11:16 a.m. – Permalink
  • sfeske

    i feel like i'm in a time warp... why don't we ever learn from the past?

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    Dog-earMay 15, 08, 11:19 a.m. – Permalink
  • THA

    um... NO

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    Dog-earMay 15, 08, 12:11 p.m. – Permalink
  • TaylorB

    ouch...

    • I think Mau is good... he just failed very bad on this one. But hey, maybe the joke is on us...TaylorB
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    Dog-earMay 15, 08, 12:42 p.m. – Permalink
  • tank02

    bah.
    bruce mau is so overrated.

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    Dog-earMay 15, 08, 1:13 p.m. – Permalink
  • canuck

    LOVE IT !

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    Dog-earMay 15, 08, 1:18 p.m. – Permalink

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