I would like to talk about the ugly new design for Ohio’s license plates because I care about design and because I am from Ohio. (Cleveland, specifically.)
Ohio’s old license plate design wasn’t amazing, but it was better. That design is known as the “Birthplace of Aviation design”. (You may ask why we are called “The Birthplace of Aviation”. It is because the Wright Brothers were born in Dayton, OH. [Yes I still identify as an Ohioan… which only gets my poor mother’s hopes up that I will move home.])
This new plate is just a monstrosity of shapes and colors. It’s a classic case of too much going on. The message is “OMG Ohio is SO AWESOME look we have farms and fields and cities and colors and also the Wright Brothers were born here and also we have this logo!” And I am not a fan of the new Ohio logo… again, I didn’t love the old one, but the new one is just TOO MUCH.
I think Washington’s plates are nice. Not great, but nice. Certainly better than some of the plates out there. Certainly better than poor Ohio’s new plates.
Remember when plates were just a solid color with the state name on them? I like those. Simple. Functional.
Anyone have a vote for the best/worst plates in the union?
@15 Such a shame about the Utah license plates. I thought the old delicate arch plates were the best of all time. But then, maybe that’s just cause they’re teal and orange.
I’m a huge fan of the uber-simple Massachusetts license plate.
Well 800,000 Ohioans and I love the new design.I went out the first day of issue and bought mine.The 2001 and 2003 plates look like a Dairy Queen Sign And the 1996 Look like some one had rubbed their ass on them and left shit skid marks behind.The blue on white and green on white in the 80’s were ok but a 3 inch Ohio at the top was ugly and why even bother with putting a half inch out line of Ohio in the middle of the plates.From 3 feet back it looked like a dot.I was living in Nebraska in 1976 and they had a beautiful plate,I expected something about the bicentennial on the Ohio plate and all we got was a off yellow with red lettering and only the states name on it in half inch letters not even a year on it.The beautiful Ohio plate is the best looking plate this state has ever produced.I also lived in Washington in 1980 and the green and white plate did the job but there was nothing special about it.On the new one they use the barely can see Rainer.That what I hated about the dull grey sunrise on the 2003-2009 Ohio plate.