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Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Crime / Design / Politics Today in Design Mishaps

Posted by Zeugma on Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 8:49 AM

The logotype for the Nixon Presidential Library and Museum looks more like it's for Nixon Açaí Energy Drink.

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Flower power!

Posted by DOUG.

on June 21, 2011 at 8:52 AM

Let me handle this, Henry. I have a way with young people.

Posted by BostonFontSnob on June 21, 2011 at 8:55 AM

Well, he was president during the '60s and early '70s. I think it's very appropriate.

Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty

on June 21, 2011 at 8:58 AM

So if I drink that, will I become a paranoid, pathological liar with jowls?

Posted by TVDinner

on June 21, 2011 at 8:59 AM

The hippies won.

Posted by TheMisanthrope on June 21, 2011 at 9:13 AM

@3 my thoughts exactly, it is very era appropriate.

Posted by Magyarhammer on June 21, 2011 at 9:14 AM

Linoleum products...

Posted by Rhett Oracle on June 21, 2011 at 9:16 AM

Sock it to me...?!?

Posted by laterite on June 21, 2011 at 9:35 AM

@3, well, it is reminiscent of the era, but not at all reminiscent of the man. Needs more of a paranoid sociopath flavor.

Posted by Reverse Polarity on June 21, 2011 at 9:53 AM

It's not remotely reminiscent of the era. Seriously, not even a little bit. A stylized flower does not the 60s make. What it's reminiscent of is a late-90s acid house CD comp. Maybe something with "Balearic" or "Ibiza" in the title.

Needs more "Roman Emperor" or "Last Days of Mussolini". Some nice Roman capitals (including "MVSEVM") with the edges crumbling and chipped away.

Posted by Fnarf

on June 21, 2011 at 10:09 AM

That logo suggests Nixon himself was a hippie. Or is now into acid house or something like Fnarf suggests.

Also the lower text font is too slanted to be taken seriously.

Posted by treacle on June 21, 2011 at 10:19 AM

It's pretty but way too upbeat and pretty for a presidential museum, 'specially tricky Dick's!

Posted by Suz on June 21, 2011 at 10:29 AM

it's a great way to disguise a swastika.

Posted by djh on June 21, 2011 at 10:34 AM

Nixon wasn't that bad. He created the EPA and matched social security raises to inflation. He wasn't the complete devil that classless lefties claim he was. He almost certainly was as competent and intelligent as JFK.

Posted by robot ghost on June 21, 2011 at 11:49 AM