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Stupid government spends 4 million dollars on an ugly Toronto logo to attract tourists (http://www.city.toronto.on.ca/unlimited/)

So anyone who lives outside of Ontario (or Canada for that matter), would you be interested in going to Toronto if you saw this logo?

It sucks ass.

And I live there.

Looks like a 70's throwback, but in fashionable blue instead of 70s Hideous Orange, Babyshit Beige, Or Dark Manure Brown. I thought they redesigned the logo just a couple years ago anyway. Triust beurocrats to waste money. Sometimes I swear City Halls around the world are just elaborate money laundering schemes.

Four Million for a T and an O? I was hoping to move to Canada(Go Bioware and Ed, Edd, and Eddy!), but now I'm not so sure.

toronto unlimited? looks like a corporation to me, not a city.

that said, i've never gone to visit someplace for the catchy logo.

Canada City']Stupid government spends 4 million dollars on an ugly Toronto logo to attract tourists (http://www.city.toronto.on.ca/unlimited/)

So anyone who lives outside of Ontario (or Canada for that matter), would you be interested in going to Toronto if you saw this logo?


Not in the least.

I'm always astonished how the different level of government can burn money like nothing.

Engage Your Imagination in a City of Unlimited Possibilities Introducing Toronto Unlimited - A Dynamic New Brand for Toronto

4 000 000$ for a freaking Branding Project! And it sound like it was coming from a 60 years old no creativity civil servant

I smell a con! People should look to your civic leaders bank accounts.

San Jose did something similar. I forget the amount but it was for a statue of Quexiquatal(sp?) an Aztec God. It was supposed to be bronze and it was done in stone. People tend to call it the dog poop statue.

Shit I will make them a better logo. FOR FREE, I have paintshop pro and a bunch of fonts, i will rule toronto ahaha

that is lame... for 4 million bucks, you folks should expect a lot more than that.

Like... a giant red maple leaf with a blue-and-white T in the middle of it.

Four Million for a T and an O? I was hoping to move to Canada(Go Bioware and Ed, Edd, and Eddy!), but now I'm not so sure.

Just bear in mind that $4 mil CAN isn't quite so onerous as $4 mil USD...!

Now I feel ripped off. I clicked on this thread thinking that the Canadians lost a bunch of deer.

Same thing happened in Montreal 10 years ago.

Take Montreal, replace the O with a mouth (smack!). Wow. How NOT original.

Some German city had been using the same trick for decades.

Not to mention the moron translator who came up with:

"Montreal: une ville, une attitude"
("Montreal: a city, a way of life")
translated to:
"Montreal: a city, an attitude"

Which DOESN'T mean the same thing at all!!!!!! LOL

Do try to keep this in perspective, 4 million to any government is a drop in the bucket. And even more so for a 1st world nation.

..and people think "government run businesses can be taught to be efficient."

Hah.