To submit your own logo design or cast your vote, here is the link.
Thursday, June 10, 2010
HELP BRITISH PETROLEUM IMPROVE ITS PUBLIC IMAGE
Understatement of the year: British Petroleum seems to have a public relations problem, and the website of logo design, LogoMyWay.com, is sponsoring a contest to help BP improve its corporate image. Here is a sampling of logos submitted thus far:
To submit your own logo design or cast your vote, here is the link.
To submit your own logo design or cast your vote, here is the link.
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What a great bunch of logos.
ReplyDeleteThose ARE good logos.
ReplyDeleteLiked a couple of them, sure. Another that occurs to me would be based on that famous ad campaign in which a Native American man stands by a trashy roadside with a tear falling down his cheek. So you could fit in a weepy dinosaur, ashamed at the destruction caused by misuse of oil -- the substance is, after all, the remains of dinos and other ancient creatures.
ReplyDeletebloggingdino - the remains of dinos and other ancient creatures
ReplyDeleteIt brings tears to my eyes when I think of how the remains of your ancestors have been so despicably desecrated. May they rest in peace and never be disturbed again.
Thanks for the link to proposed BP logo upgrades.
ReplyDeleteOne of the more poignant moments during this entire dreary episodes occured during BP CEO Tony Hayward's press conference a couple of weeks back:
Tony Hayward announced over the weekend that while he's "sorry for the massive disruption" the oil spill has caused, "there's no one who wants this thing over more than I do."
"Y'know, I'd like my life back," he said. "So there's no one who wants this thing done more than I do, and we are doing everything we can to contain the oil offshore, defend the shoreline and return people's lives to normal as fast as we can."
Puts things in perspective doesn't it?
Sure there is the loss of human life on the platform. Incalculable loss of plant and animal life on shore and at sea from the spill itself and the economic effects of loss of income and clean up of the catastrophe.
And then there's poor Tony.
Inconvenienced by long hours at the office. I hope he gets time and a half.
"And then there's poor Tony.
ReplyDeleteInconvenienced by long hours at the office. I hope he gets time and a half."
Oh so do I. In the Big House.
Arthurstone - I hope he gets time and a half
ReplyDeleteShaw - Oh so do I. In the Big House.
My sentiments too. WIth each passing day, the news gets more teeth-grindingly bad.
Here is John Boehner siding with Tom Donohue of the Chamber of Commerce on the issue of corporate risk and liability, Chamber Of Commerce Says Taxpayers Should Help Pay For BP Spill Cleanup.
Here is a story about another ABC Reporter Hassled By BP Days After Thad Allen Directed Open Access - Media Clampdown Continues.
And this story about the new British PM David Cameron, British PM to raise BP oil spill crisis with Obama, who says: "When you consider the huge exposure of British pension funds to BP it starts to become a matter of national concern if a great British company is being continually beaten up on the airwaves."
How about the 11 dead platform workers, the hundreds of thousands of Americans whose livelihoods are lost, the destruction of a major ecosystem, thousands of miles of coastline ruined, and the damage that will linger for generations. Who gives a shit about the fortunes of BP, and David Cameron can go bugger himself.
It's always better and usually more effective to spend a million on PR than to spend a hundred million fixing the problem. I have a feeling they teach that in business school.
ReplyDeleteI notice that Toyota, now that a few weeks have passed and the American mind has been reset to zero, is running ads about how their cars all have the "Star Safety System." In a 30 second spot, the word 'safety' is used 9 times in warm fuzzy tones although there is no explanation whatever just what this safety system is or what it does or whether or not they've fixed the problems with brakes and throttles that refused to close.
Tylanol spent a lot of money informing us how sanitary they were and used words like "pure" and 'safe' lavishly instead of cleaning up filthy plants and I'm quite sure that in due time BP will be bragging about their commitment to safety and bringing about a warm and nurturing environment for children and sea creatures. Remember how they weaseled out of really paying up or fixing up after they killed all those people in Bhopal? Well, you're going to see a replay.
Those logos are brilliant, by the way.
Whew! What a relief to hear our elected representatives are on the job.
ReplyDeleteGOP lawmaker with BP stock has role in spill probe
By DENNIS CONRAD (AP) – 51 minutes ago
WASHINGTON — A multimillionaire House Republican who owns thousands of shares of BP stock has no plans to recuse himself from a congressional investigation related to the Gulf oil spill or from votes on Capitol Hill that could affect his investments in the oil company.
Rep. James Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin has avoided directly criticizing BP for the spill itself. At the same time, he has watched his BP stock tank in value.
Worth more than $251,000 just a few years ago, Sensenbrenner's 3,604 shares of BP PLC stock had plunged in value to just $118,000 by the end of trading Thursday. That's roughly half their value the day before the April 20 oil spill. Sensenbrenner has said his net worth is about $10 million.
Arthurstone, thanks for this news piece. Sensenbrenner refuses to recuse himself! Then he should be referred to the Senate Ethics Committee for censorship or removal.
ReplyDeleteTruth is BP is likely finished as an enterprise and the other big oil criminals will now work very hard to insure they are able to feed from the carcass. Their minions in Congress will hold some hearings, draft some bills then get out of the way and let big oil get on with their business.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure the good Senator from Wisconsin can make a judgement not based on his own self-interest.
Just kidding.
Every once in a while it's fun to try and type something like that with a straight face.
I can't.
I'd make a s****y Republican.
You sure don't hear much about the 11 dead workers, do you. BP has managed to cover that one up pretty well.
ReplyDeleteIs it possible to NOT be a cynic in this Era of Greed and Recklessness?
ReplyDelete"Cynic" comes from the Greek word "kunikos," and originally meant "doglike," and was applied to the Cynic philosophers because of the nickname kuon given to Diogenes.
Cynic meant "faultfinder." And many cynics, who in the pursuit of virtue, pointed out the flaws in others and the belief that selfishness determines human behavior.
Diogenes of Sinope was the prototypical Cynic. But unlike him you will not see me barking in public, urinating on the leg of a table, or masturbating on the street.
Although there are times when I truly believe those are the only rational behaviors available to deal with the wretched news of the last 2 years.
Back to the logos. They're all fantastic but I'm always partial to international sign language myself.
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