Manchester United apologise for Nazi Swastika-style logo

[Dirkus_Circus]

Hang on a second, it was issue 39! The year the war started! The plot thickens!

 

[iseered]

Seriously? Of course it's deliberate. Just like that London Olympics one was.

Whichever design guy planted the idea definitely knew.

This. There is no way in hell whoever designed that didn't draw inspiration from Nazi aesthetics.

Red, black, white, New Order, that logo, those haircuts even... Someone who tries to design stuff for a living doesn't come up with that combination by accident.

I don't find it offensive though, you see it all the time.

 

[gkmacca]

Me? A Nazi?? But ich bin ein Mancunian! "Come on Davey Moyes! Girls grab your gentiles - boys! - Ve go wild wild wild...und so on". I really am Mancunian! Wait, wait, look, I can walk like a monkey...

 

[cloggypop]

 

[LeTallecWiz]

This. There is no way in hell whoever designed that didn't draw inspiration from Nazi aesthetics.

Red, black, white, New Order, that logo, those haircuts even... Someone who tries to design stuff for a living doesn't come up with that combination by accident.

I don't find it offensive though, you see it all the time.

I can't tell if you & Mo are being serious ... Have I become too soft in my old age?

 

[Jack D Rips]

Hang on a second, it was issue 39! The year the war started! The plot thickens!

Fucking hell! You're right. I've just noticed the mid point between 3 and 9 is 6 and 39 + 6 = 45 the year WW2 ended.

 

[Mamma Mia]

This. There is no way in hell whoever designed that didn't draw inspiration from Nazi aesthetics.

Red, black, white, New Order, that logo, those haircuts even... Someone who tries to design stuff for a living doesn't come up with that combination by accident.

I don't find it offensive though, you see it all the time.

Woah, hold up. I wasn't suggesting the guy leaned that way.

I'm saying he did it for a laugh. Every day, there's a designer somewhere being being told something like "That kinda looks like a penis" and responding with "Oh shit, you're right, it kinda does. I'll change that bit."

Every once in a while, it slips passed everyone and we get something like this.

** I say guy and he above, not because I don't think this couldn't have been the work of a woman, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't.

 

[Mamma Mia]

I can't tell if you & Mo are being serious ... Have I become too soft in my old age?

I was being serious, but making a different point.

 

[LeTallecWiz]

I was being serious, but making a different point.

Ah I get your point now.

 

[cloggypop]

 

[iseered]

I'm not saying the designer is a Nazi. But it is definitely deliberate, and he probably thought he was being very subtle and clever. Like you say, he probably did it for a laugh, a in-joke amongst his designer buddies.

 

[gkmacca]

It worked for Hugo Boss.

 

[Athens]

It worked for Hugo Boss.

I remember reading about a few other companies that had shady stories from those days.

Fucked if I can remember them though.

 

[cloggypop]

 

[gkmacca]

I remember reading about a few other companies that had shady stories from those days.

Fucked if I can remember them though.

The worst one was Adophe Weber's Memory Wipe Company.

 

[Athens]

The worst one was Adophe Weber's Memory Wipe Company.

Those bastards!

Wait, what were we talking about again?

 

[gkmacca]

I dunno. Where am I?