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Discussion Bad Graphic Design
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Ballarat Football League Indigenous Round logo. It is just horrendously offensive.
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It's not that bad except for the netball ring looking a bit like a noose.
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It's awful! It's pretty easy to tell that it's been made in Paint or similar – this isn't a traditional dot painting converted to digital, this is little symmetrical circles all lined up in perfect rows to create silhouettes of footy goals and netball rings. I'm no authority on indigenous art as I'm just a young white male but I think the execution comes off as poor taste rather than being a true representation of indigenous culture.
Plus the type sucks.
That's exactly it, I mean I can understand if they are unable to, or cant afford to commission an Indigenous artist to design a logo but know where the line is if you want to represent Indigenous culture. It's bordering on offensive to be perfectly honest.
After seeing this, I knocked up my idea for a logo. It is in a similar vein to the Crows' first Indigenous jumper, a simple recolour (I included the TSI colours in the lower shield) that clearly represents what the round is about without butchering an ancient art form.
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May be wrong, but looks like a random has attempted to imitate indigenous art. Could come across as veeery cringe-worthy.
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I'd love to know who designed it.
Some fourty-something bloke on the leagues board who thought he was doing the right thing, but got it horrendously wrong.
probably the same bloke that made their normal logo.
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I love how they can't even get the yellow dots don't even stay in the shield. Not only do they need to hand this job off to an actual indigenous artist, but they also need to teach the guy who did this one to colour within the lines!
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Perhaps I'm a bit ignorant here, but I don't quite see why using the TSI colours is important for a local footy league ~3000kms away from the Torres Strait islands. For a national competition like the AFL it is, but I would assume that local leagues would be better off placing a focus on the traditional indigenous tribes of that local area.
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I had to explain to my class why this would be a horrible Australian flag. They didn't really seem to care how it looked. Not a problem with the aboriginal flag, just combining the two makes me cringe.
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Proof that we really haven't come that far in 50 odd years with cultural understanding. Incredibly offensive.Ballarat Football League Indigenous Round logo. It is just horrendously offensive.
Not just that though, the designer of the aboriginal flag doesn't want it
This is the first image put on on Eureka Stadium's new scoreboard...it's horrendous.
I don't think I've seen that version of the Port logo before... with Port Adelaide scrunched at the top?
Yeah looks like it was just added for the sake of it. Not only that though but the time is wrong! The game starts at 1:45 pm local time, not 1:15!
And sentence capitalisation. Yeesh.
Scrunched up or not, this is so much better than just "Power"
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Not sure why the Port logo has 'Port Adelaide' on the top. I've never seen that before but I guess it doesn't change much really
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That scoreboard hardly deserves an unveiling, does it?
We still run things by steam engine here, this is a big deal!
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