I’ve decided that I don’t want this blog to be too personal all the time (and it will be, ’cause I’m “emo” as the kids say), so I’ve decided to focus some of my blog energies into finding bad branding examples and showing them to you.
It might be a horrible advertisement, a miss-spelled word (boy, this might come back to bite me in the arse), or just something I find ridiculous.
Issues with this idea:
a) my camera phone is less than 1 mega-pixel, so the pics might turn out very badly; b) I’m not the most observant person you’ve ever met, and my attention span is lessening as I get older (I think my A.D.D. co-workers and husband have somethign to do with this); c) I don’t know all that much about branding, so maybe as I make fun of the bad stuff I see, I’ll see good things too and we can have fun together learning. Imagine.
I think I’ve talked my hubby into letting me buy a palm treo 650 off of eBay, so perhaps my image quality will improve eventually…
Anyway, on to the first picture:
This is from a local pizza restaurant in Auburndale. It’s quite blurry, so I’m going to translate for you:
Please for you safety ( oh come on. proof read.)
No shoeskates allowed (umm…shoeskates? lol)
No skating allowed inside (especially ice skating)
The restaurant
Thank you for your cooperation (no, thank you for your lack of punctuation and CAPS LOCK ISSUES)
Yeah, so considering that it is underlined, caps, italicized, and bold, I’m pretty sure they were mad when this sign was posted.
Darn heathens and their “shoeskates.”
Maybe they meant those sneakers with the skates in the heels, called wheelies, I think. Nonetheless, the spelling, grammar, and punctuation are still poor.
Yeah…I’m a part time substitute teacher and we get to confiscate the wheels off of those shoes. I can just imagine though: an old lady seeing the kids gliding around in her restaurant and calling them shoeskates. Funny. How’d you find me? Thanks for the comment!