{"id":46424,"date":"2018-12-27T21:17:42","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T01:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=46424"},"modified":"2020-08-09T21:17:54","modified_gmt":"2020-08-10T01:17:54","slug":"oh-atlanta-877","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=46424","title":{"rendered":"Oh, Atlanta #877"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-46425\" src=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/atl-logo-horizontal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/atl-logo-horizontal.jpg 560w, https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/atl-logo-horizontal-300x110.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">To quote an internet commenter who was quoting any brand consultant:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">the best diversion to consistent mediocrity is new branding and messaging.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">That being said, you know what that means!\u00a0 A <a href=\"https:\/\/atlanta.curbed.com\/2018\/12\/18\/18146277\/marta-the-atl-transit-authority-expansion-nathan-deal\">new logo was made<\/a> for something that didn\u2019t need it!\u00a0 And not only was a new logo created for something that didn\u2019t need it, it also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.myajc.com\/blog\/commuting\/atlanta-new-transit-logo-590-000-worth-optimism-momentum-guidance\/Cd392huDbPJ0nMPdXcbjAO\/\">cost $590,000<\/a> to \u201cmake!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Man, I am absolutely in the wrong business.\u00a0 I totally need to find a way to get back onto the agency side that somehow has entire cities in their back pockets, to where they can charge over half a million dollars to rip off the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cuttingstickers.com\/838-large_default\/airwalk-skateboards-shoes-logo-cutting-sticker-decal.jpg\">Airwalk shoes logo<\/a>, and then package it in 75 words of fluff and bullshit that could sell water to the ocean.\u00a0 Because I\u2019m pretty sure I could plagiarize one thing a year and be completely satisfied pulling in six figures for doing such and then calling it a year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">I mean I don\u2019t even know where to begin with this perfect example of federal waste and in all likelihood crooked Atlanta politicians spoon-feeding their bedroom buddies.\u00a0 But I think the most succinct place to start is with just the symbol itself:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">The shapes that form the \u201cstar\u201d in the logo are a series of \u201cA\u2019s\u201d \u2013 or arrows \u2013 that spiral around a central axis, \u201csymbolizing the freedom of movement provided to the region.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">The arrows point toward and away from the center, \u201ccreating pulse-like movement.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">The shape is reminiscent of a star, \u201cand stars have provided guidance to travelers for thousands of years.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">It\u2019s more like the red arrows form the symbolic shape of the asshole of the collective taxpayers, and the blue arrows represent the collective dicks that are fucking it.\u00a0 The arrows pointing towards and away are pretty appropriate, because the red arrows are the asshole being stretched away, while the blue arrows are most definitely pointed towards the metaphorical fucking they\u2019re doing to our dollars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Otherwise this is, like most cases of new branding, a complete and utter waste of money.\u00a0 Naturally, the city has zero intention of rolling this out immediately, since slapping vinyl graphics all over buses also costs money, not to mention they don\u2019t want to have to pay off the litany of injury attorneys and DUI lawyers who have the ad space on the vast majority of buses around the city who have probably sunk a lot of money themselves for their ad space, so it\u2019s going to be a minute before this actually officially rolls out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">But in the meantime, they\u2019ll hybridize the logo, and despite the fact that they have their own \u201cmeticulously\u201d chosen color palettes, they\u2019ll probably have to be neutered further, so they\u2019ll be cohesive with the various other regional transit agencies as well as MARTA itself.\u00a0 So, taxpayers can look forward to footing the cost of adding stickers to existing buses, and then be on the hook later on, when they\u2019re taken offline for a minute so that they can be completely re-christened as ATL vehicles.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">And naturally, by the time comes around, the city will probably have another new logo ready to unveil, that probably will have cost the city another $750,000 to \u201cconceptualize\u201d if we factor in inflation and egregious bonuses that they\u2019ll inevitably sink.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Maybe by then, the base of the T in ATL will be sinking into the asshole, and with the growing fetish of digital artwork, it can be animated to be going in and out of it; y\u2019know, to show that directional motion that they\u2019re claiming is so important.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To quote an internet commenter who was quoting any brand consultant: the best diversion to consistent mediocrity is new branding and messaging. That being said, you know what that means!\u00a0 A new logo was made for something that didn\u2019t need it!\u00a0 And not only was a new logo created for something that didn\u2019t need it, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=46424\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Oh, Atlanta #877<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[131,79,45,72,94,143,49],"class_list":["post-46424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-branding","tag-cashmoney","tag-fail","tag-government","tag-graphic-design","tag-ohatlanta","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46426,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46424\/revisions\/46426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}