New Starbucks Logo: CONDEMN OR ALLOW??

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Condemn! It is too loose and open, with all of her little mer-bits just dissipating into empty space. She wants to be (what does gus say? oh yes...) gently bound with a black band. It will give her the boundaries she so desperately craves.

Canuck on January 6, 2011 at 11:35 AM

I condemn double posts.

http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archive…

Urgutha Forka on January 6, 2011 at 11:36 AM

They need to expose her big titties. Big titties sell coffee. It's a fact!

Vince on January 6, 2011 at 11:42 AM

Who gives a rat's ass?

tacomagirl on January 6, 2011 at 11:45 AM

Well, to be fair this post has a POLL! So it's a little different.

Megan Seling on January 6, 2011 at 11:45 AM Stranger Staff

OHMYGAAAAAAAWD!!!!?1!/1~

This was posted yesterday. Keep your hyperventilating to yourself.

-ink on January 6, 2011 at 11:46 AM

Would have appreciated a "don't care" option. I probably fucked that up by bothering to post a comment, though.

yelahneb on January 6, 2011 at 11:47 AM

I'm trying very hard not to think of a vulva.

rob! on January 6, 2011 at 11:56 AM

I think it's actually better than the old one. Sorry Ms Canuck, but bordering circles are sooo 90s. The previous logo was looking really dated.

leek on January 6, 2011 at 12:10 PM

Vulva! I love me some hot P1800.

gloomy gus on January 6, 2011 at 12:12 PM

I'm with @4. I couldn't give a shit. It isn't horrible. It isn't fantastic. I really don't care.

Why am I even bothering to comment?

Reverse Polarity on January 6, 2011 at 12:20 PM

I think we condemned this yesterday.

Chester Copperpot on January 6, 2011 at 12:21 PM

Does this mean that Rat City Rollergirls won?

on January 6, 2011 at 12:30 PM

I think they did this partly because so many people used the circle-border-with-type design that they either had to sue everyone everywhere or risk losing their "identity". I'll allow it on those grounds.

vinylsaurus on January 6, 2011 at 12:33 PM

@10, Mary Kay was around in 1972?!

One of my favorite cars, though I prefer the manlier Gold or Alpine Blue metallics, of course.

rob! on January 6, 2011 at 12:33 PM

But how can you do the creative marker edit to turn the STARBUCKS COFFEE into ****FUCK* *OFF** on your cup if they don't put the words there? I suppose you can still put middle fingers on her hands though. Oh well, one less childish prank in the world.

SPG on January 6, 2011 at 12:37 PM

Does this mean there will be a trend for corporations to market their stuff with logos that do not include the name? And how soon until this translates ino baseball teams selling t-shirts with just the hat logo, and no text stating the name of the team?

Tingleyfeeln on January 6, 2011 at 12:42 PM

@10 ...I drive a Vulva S80...

Canuck on January 6, 2011 at 12:49 PM

@9 It's still 1998 in Canada, so that's to be expected.

Canuck on January 6, 2011 at 12:50 PM

@17 - You mean like Nike or Apple?

Wheedle on January 6, 2011 at 1:00 PM

I haven't seen the other sides of the cup, but there might be a cost savings reason for this switch sue to the logo being a one color knockout. They sell a shitload of those cups, and if they can remove black from the cups it will save them a few bucks!

wisepunk on January 6, 2011 at 1:05 PM

@14 makes a very cromulent point...

Mike Smith on January 6, 2011 at 1:12 PM

It does sort of look like they keep zooming in on Double-Tailed Mermaid Lady, so that the logical next logo in the cycle will be just a close-up of her left eye, a bit of her hair, and part of her crown--thus rendering it completely abstract.

el ganador on January 6, 2011 at 1:28 PM

Thank you for poll option #3.

That's right, Mr Schultz. Some of us NBA fans in Seattle have NOT FORGOTTEN. Some of us will NEVER FORGET.

/hrumph

merry on January 6, 2011 at 1:30 PM

@18, 850 here. What a bunch of clichés we all are.

rob! on January 6, 2011 at 1:31 PM

...and I used a Zipcar S40 the other day. I can't believe we don't all drive vintage Lotuses converted to all-electric or some such, riding around like Emma Peel in our catsuits.

gloomy gus on January 6, 2011 at 1:48 PM

Rob!, Got the S80 only after the 850 was given a proper Viking burial...and I hope you have plenty of bumper stickers?

Canuck on January 6, 2011 at 1:52 PM

Only on the weekends, gus, when the catsuit comes back from the cleaners...

Canuck on January 6, 2011 at 1:54 PM

@20:

Or Chevrolet, or McDonald's, or Shell, or Mercedes, or Subaru, or Westinghouse, or Motorola, or...

COMTE on January 6, 2011 at 2:11 PM

I liked the original logo, with the nekkid mermaid/siren lady showing all her bits.

Geni on January 6, 2011 at 2:42 PM

I'm too cool to patronize a starbucks every since they sold out and became popular.

m@tt on January 6, 2011 at 2:48 PM

@27, well, I would, if I weren't so fanatical about maintaining the shine. Only a discrete white Apple decal inside the rear window, which replaced the original rainbow apple only after it turned black in the sun. Had an HRC sticker on the bumper years ago, before I removed it and every trace of adhesive in a fit of righteous indignation when I realized how worthless they all were. Some time ago Costco was selling those programmable LED signs for $100 or so, and I seriously thought about putting one in the rear window in place of bumper stickers.

Knocking on my padded dash, I won't have to push my flaming 850 out to sea for a good long while. I bought a new transmission in 2008, and I suppose I'll have to get a matching engine in another 200k miles or so.

@26, somebody converted a Saab Sonett III--a nice yellow one that would go very well with black latex or spandex:

http://ecomodder.com/forum/showthread.ph…

rob! on January 6, 2011 at 3:03 PM

@22 I think you meant crapulent.

Vince on January 6, 2011 at 3:04 PM

it's been shit since it stopped being brown

Wasteroo on January 6, 2011 at 3:10 PM

Meh.

Weekilter on January 6, 2011 at 3:15 PM

It's kind of dull and predictable, but given that they have become a global brand, they can get away with removing the text. The get the benefit of the logo working in any language now but only because 85% of human on earth recognize the brand.

The Gap redesign was just plain incompetence.

Westside forever on January 6, 2011 at 3:18 PM

'87 is #1, bulging vag.

masgroovy on January 6, 2011 at 3:33 PM

Gus, Canuck, Rob...It's NOT a Vulva unless it's a 240! Don't you know your Vulvas?

on January 6, 2011 at 9:05 PM

I think I see what's going on here. Look at the photo again, the progression of logos over time. The cute siren gal is coming closer and closer to you, the potential consumer. It's rather enticing. Although I haven't been a Starbucks consumer. Clever! Maybe in 15 years it will be nothing but the siren's sweet lips

i'm pro-science and i vote on January 7, 2011 at 1:26 PM

@38, are you BrickHag because you drive a 240?! But my 850 is just as boxy, so I guess that makes me BrickFag! Not like those swoopy, Taurus-y (sorry gus & Canuck) S40s & S80s.

rob! on January 7, 2011 at 10:14 PM

Condemn or allow? How about 'yawn'? Is 'yawn' good for you?

swag on January 10, 2011 at 11:14 AM

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