The Panthers logo, revisited: It's NOT the shape of Carolina

[top dawg]

I found this mildly amusing piece on the Panthers logo.  At the end of the day it probably doesn't matter, but David Rappoccio has a valid point about the designers that designed it. They could have---and probably should have---done a better job.  A simple change in angle makes a world of difference. That's why he is calling "Bullshit!", to the notion that it is in the shape of the Carolinas.

 

Seeing is believing, right?  It looks kind of fuged when you view the overlay.

 

Designers are smart people who know their craft. Why would a designer make a logo resemble another shape, but only when the logo is tilted? They wouldn’t, because professional designers aren’t stupid. The logo was designed to have the head face forward at a level angle, with the neck curling downwards, which is not the angle of the Carolinas. A good designer would not design a logo to resemble a shape only when the logo is tilted at an unnatural angle. That would be what we call a bad designer.

If the logo was to be designed in the shape of the Carolinas, the logo would look something like this:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I know that most people probably don't give a poo, but Rappoccio is right.  How in the hell can designers get paid millions of dollars come up with a design that is supposed to be in the shape of the Carolinas that is not the shape of the Carolinas? Just like the writer said, perhaps they didn't.  perhaps it was something that someone came up with after the fact, and someone just went with it.

And now, all of us fans have really been duped into going with it as well.   

 

In my opinion they need to "fix" it, and have it more closely resemble the two states so that it really does give the logo more meaning. Until then, I am inclined to think somewhat like Rappoccio.

 

The fact is, the Carolina logo is just an angry animal head. Which I’ve alluded to before is a common and boring theme in sports logos.

 

I said that I think somewhat like him because at the end of the day, "angry animal head" or not, I still think that it's a cool logo.  Its just that it would be cooler if it was more closely shaped like the states that it is supposed to represent---in part, the place where I was born and have lived for most of my life. 

[SCP]

I think we have the greatest logo and uniforms in the history of sport so I will reserve comment in this thread.

[Jakob]

[SIGCHI222]

Maybe if you squinted more....and drank, I don't know.....a beer or twelve you would see it.

 

I see it perfectly.

[SCP]

For what it's worth I think the Patriots logo is the dumbest looking thing ever. Same with the Broncos, Dolphins, Ravens, and Jags.

[Jangler]

[SIGCHI222]

For what it's worth I think the Patriots logo is the dumbest looking thing ever. Same with the Broncos, Dolphins, Ravens, and Jags.

 

The Browns...now THERE is a logo.  Amirite?

 

 

P.S.  I edited this just to see if the "edit thing" still shows up.

 

P.P.S.  It does.

 

[Jangler]

 

[Jimmy]

We have a great logo.  It would look good upside down.

 

 

[Night Prowler X]

It's fuging close enough.

[TNPanther]

I think the Saints logo is the dumbest thing ever...because it's the Saints logo

[SCP]

And anybody that knows anything about the physics of flight knows that stupid Falcon logo can't fly.

[Hotsauce]

It's obvious it the shape of SC, where

They are moving in 2024...Ladson Panthers FTW

[top dawg]

Maybe if you squinted more....and drank, I don't know.....a beer or twelve you would see it.

 

I see it perfectly.

 

 

I saw it too...before I looked at the overlay.  The fact is that many people believe Carolinians are just a bunch of ass backwards country bumpkins anyway.  I can just see someone saying, "Ahh, hell, those dumb fugs won't notice anyway."  :lol:

 

It does kind of feel like The Emperor Has No Clothes right about now.

 

The designer must have been a South Car---err Yankee. :P

 

The designer must have had a few while he was designing it.