NEW PCTA logo is/was an issue?

[pafarmboy1]

Yesterday I received an email saying that this would be the new logo for the PCTA:

Today I got another email stating that after the image was posted "several members alerted us to a serious issue with our new logo." It's now been axed and they are back to the original logo. Just wondering.....anyone know why this logo was an issue?

[LuckyMan]

Someone on the PCT-L posted a Reddit link showing the triangular spiral looked like a pedophile symbol.

[ScareBear]

Someone on the PCT-L posted a Reddit link showing the triangular spiral looked like a pedophile symbol.

Looked like? OMG, you need to see it. It doesn't "look like" it....OMG.......LMAO...bet this is the LAST time they use THAT ad agency!!!

https://wikileaks.org/wiki/FBI_pedophile_symbols

[Malto]

Glad they reversed, that new logo was hideously ugly.

[cmoulder]

Almost as bad as those darn Buddhists using a swastika!

[jgillam]

I wonder if someone at the ad agency tried to pull a quick one.

[DownEaster]

I wonder if someone at the ad agency tried to pull a quick one.

Likely only to the extent that they didn't bother to conduct a proper trademark/intellectual property search. They probably figured that if they spent half an hour scribbling on a white board, their creation just had to be unique.

[Miner]

Didn't know what the issue was. Thanks for clarifying it for us. My first reaction to the new logo was, I hope they didn't waste money paying for it; money better spent on the trail. Having been at companies that rebranded themselves saying it would speak better to the customer, I can say it never makes a difference. But if it was an internal thing with no money paid, then no big deal.

[TTT]

Logo designs are always contentious. Being subjective in nature everyone considers their 10 cents worth to have merit. My 10 cents worth is that the two logos in question are miles apart. I see mountains and the letter A.

[TTT]

There must be a few hundred triangular shapes out there.

Quicash.jpg

[Uncle Joe]

They should just have a contest and let some designers come up with one.

[Mags]

Almost as bad as those darn Buddhists using a swastika!

NAtive American too.

My Grandfather's division in WW2 was the 45th. AKA The Thunderbirds. They originally had a native American "rolling log" patch aka the swastika. You can see why it was switched. :O

I saw an original division patch in a museum. And I was "Yep, I see why it was switched!"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/45th_I...United_States)

[Dogwood]

Symbolic of the insignia on Lemurinan inter dimensional spacecraft that have been known to dematerialize as they exit and enter their Earth base at Mt Shasta.

As fictional symbologist Professor Richard Langdon said "what really matters is what you believe." Maybe, the current publicized hot topic belief is that it's a pedophile symbol. Whole topic of pedophilism seems greatly exaggerated through fear mongering.

[TTT]

If the brief was to include a mountain, it's pretty hard not to do a triangular shape of some sort

[HooKooDooKu]

If the brief was to include a mountain, it's pretty hard not to do a triangular shape of some sort

But the problem here is that the PCTA triangle above and the FBI listed symbols on the linked website are identical symbols.
Both could be described as "six lines drawn in a spiral pattern forming the outline of an equilateral triangle, with the spiral opened at the bottom-left corner".
The only difference is that the PCTA spiral is clockwise, where as the FBI listed spiral is counter-clockwise.

That would be like someone trying to adopt a counter-clockwise swastika as their symbol (the Nazi swastika was a clockwise design). Most people wouldn't pay attention to the clockwise v counter-clockwise and still call it a Nazi symbol.

By contrast, the triangle shown above for QUICASH is "ten lines drawn in a spiral pattern forming the outline of an equilateral triangle, with the spiral opened at the top ending with an arrow pointing up and to the right". That makes for a symbol that is visually distinct from the PCTA/FBI triangle. The outline is distinctly different, and consists of twice as many pen strokes (10 lines for the triangle plus 2 more lines for the arrow).

[rocketsocks]

I personally think it's visually and astetically...unappealing, it dosen't Pop!

[Sarcasm the elf]

I personally think it's visually and astetically...unappealing, it dosen't Pop!

Seriously.

Their old logo looks much better.