{"id":96,"date":"2007-10-17T07:13:51","date_gmt":"2007-10-17T07:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/feilerfaster\/2007\/10\/stop-that-car.html"},"modified":"2007-10-17T07:13:51","modified_gmt":"2007-10-17T07:13:51","slug":"stop-that-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/feilerfaster\/2007\/10\/stop-that-car.html","title":{"rendered":"Stop that Car!"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the funnest thing I’ve seen on the Internet in quite some time. NYC has a new taxi logo \"taxilogo.jpg\" that’s absolutely hideous. It’s here on the right: NYC is block letters, followed by a circular T in a different type, and then the letters AXI. As a design head, I don’t think it works at all. As a resident of NY, I find it oddly disconcerting. It seems temporary and almost childlike when you see it in person — that must be the one that got repainted after a wreck and is only here until it gets painted properly. Please, only temporary!
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\nSo meanwhile, the NYT asked eight designers to critique the new design and come up with ones of their own. Click here<\/a> to read some of the submissions, and look for the box on the upper right to see some of the others. Above is one retro proposal: All 70’s gangster!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is the funnest thing I’ve seen on the Internet in quite some time. NYC has a new taxi logo that’s absolutely hideous. It’s here on the right: NYC is block letters, followed by a circular T in a different type, and then the letters AXI. 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