The rules of this PV are simple, and I make no apologies if such a competition has been made before...

(1) Take a famous corporate logo (e.g. McDonalds, FedEx, IBM etc.)
(2) Add some photoshop wizadry
(3) Post both original and doctored images into this thread

Bonus points can be had from:

(4) Twilight Zone Factor: using the logo of the corporation in my head right now (mysterious...)
(5) Socratic Irony Factor: producing a logo which actually betrays the ugly truth about a given corporation

Rule (6), however, is the most important: if it ain't funny, you won't win.

Here's an example to get your creative juices flowing in the right direction:

I'll judge it when I think there have been enough entries to make the judgement process worthwhile.

http://www.webchantier.com/_index_en.html

There's a site that should be useful, there's a section of all logos in vector format.

Ah, good old Guanotanomo Bay!

Easy target and old joke, but hey, at least it's all pretty and Illustrator-ish...

Oh, no original there - I made it all from scratch in Illustrator. Still, I suspect we all know the logo in question...

Again, no original - 100% Illustrator job (though I had to trace an origianal logo).

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HAHA i love the microsof.. one

DexX, you rock.

I can say that since I already had my forumuser before you left, which means I also rock.

I looks around for nice big clear originals to work from in Photoshop, but couldn't find any, so I got nice big crappy ones and traced them in Illustrator. The Microsoft one actually has some Photoshopping in it, unlike the first two.

I plan on making more - just waiting for the muse to hit...

Big original here.

Dat's friggin' harsh.

thats why i love it

I know. *evil grin*

In the words of Tim Ferguson of The Doug Anthony All Stars: "We were making jokes about the space shuttle before the bloody thing hit the water!"

Goddamn you're good. I said goddamn. I also said you're good. Then I put them together. And I meant every word. All three. Or maybe four. There's a contraction, so I'm not really sure how that affects the word count. Also goddamn is like two words put together, so that might bring the count up to five, unless the contraction doesn't count, which would make it four. Or it could be the original three words I mentioned eaerlier if the contraction and the two words together don't count as extra instances of words. Goddamn.

Out of curiosity, could someone explain the 76 / $2.76 one to this Aussie?

Halliburton starts branding its property...

The 76 is a gas station company. They sell gas. And sometimes snacks.

and it was a Ganhdi esque outcry of rebellion at the escalating gas prices. just a couple of years ago gas was consistently around $1.50. now it's up over $3 most places. this after it rising only a dollar in like 3 decades. blargal snargal, i say. blargal snargal.

It's even worse in Canada. Right now it's at around $1.20 per litre which is almost twice as much I believe.

We've topped $1.30 a litre here in Oz, though it's back down to around $1.25. Allowing for exchange rates and units of measurement, that works out to about $us3.65 a gallon.

Around two thirds of that is tax, though, and the fuckers are refusing to lower it.

Over here in the UK it's $1.83/gallon.

I win!

Oops, what I meant to say was, ours is $1.83/litre... that's roughly $8.25/gallon.

Hooray for living in a society dependant on a chemical which takes 3 billion years to develop!

I heard a funky radio scientist over here in Oz, Dr Karl Kruszelnicki, talking about how oil is an incredible chemical, full of amazing hydrocarbon chains that are impossible to duplicate, and we waste it by burning it. When we _do_ run out of oil, a lot of industry's are going to be in trouble - plastics (and by extension all those reliant on plastics), medicine, cosmetics, and lots of other manufacturing and scientific fiels. Sure, maybe we'll make an electric or salt-water-powered car, but building the bloody thing is going to be fun with no petrochemicals...

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I heard a funky radio scientist over here in Oz, Dr Karl Kruszelnicki, talking about how oil is an incredible chemical, full of amazing hydrocarbon chains that are impossible to duplicate, and we waste it by burning it. When we _do_ run out of oil, a lot of industry's are going to be in trouble - plastics (and by extension all those reliant on plastics), medicine, cosmetics, and lots of other manufacturing and scientific fiels. Sure, maybe we'll make an electric or salt-water-powered car, but building the bloody thing is going to be fun with no petrochemicals...

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That will teach me to post on a public forum when still half asleep.

"Industry's" instead of "industries".

Christamighty, time for some self-flagellation, I think...

"Forgive me father for I have sinned." *shwack!* "I pluralised with an apostrophe-S." *shwack!* "Please forgive me." *shwack!*

Well, I don't think there will be any raised eyebrows or cries of surprise to hear.... DexX wins! Whilst all of his entries were extremely good, my two particular favourites were:

and especially

...because it satisfied the Socratic Irony bonus rule.

Nobody actually used my "secret" corporation (which was Sony) but who cares when DexX's logos were all so awesome?

Congrats, DexX - unlike the forthcoming finale to the Ashes series, this competition ends in an Aussie victory!

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Well, I don't think there will be any raised eyebrows or cries of surprise to hear.... DexX wins!

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Yay! I shall have a ponder and post a new competition in an hour or two. I have a few ideas bouncing around, so I will work out which one I like best and post it soon.

Thank you, He of the Fading-In-and-Out Red Face.

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thats my favorite way!

Glad I could be there for you. :D

some funny shit you got there. anyone seen the 'Bugger Off' burger king photoshop?

right ... consider that in the UK we pay £1.03 per LITRE, then count your blessings.