You may or may not know that Wal-Mart is planning to release a new logo sometime next week. If you’re curious what it looks like, here’s the image that’s been circulating the Net:

To me, it looks like a logo for a social network for flower enthusiasts– not exactly the kind of logo you’d expect to see on a chain of super-discount department stores.

So I decided to take things into my own hands, go a little further, and see what new logo we’d be looking at if Internet people designed Walmart’s new corporate identity. In no particular order…

Woogle:

Waltube:

Walmrtr:

Walspace

Walkipedia

Wype:

Diggmart:

Wintendo:

Walbama:

WSS:

Number 1: Moon Shoes

They were awesome, and I had them. If you have them, you are cool.

Number 2: Razor Scooters

Not so awesome. If you have one, you are weird.

Check out these shockingly similar front pages from The Anniston Star in Alabama and the Delta Democrat Times in Mississippi.

UPDATE: Nevermind. The links are now out of date. I should know better than to link to off site images.

OMG like wtf!?! John McCain ripped off Barack Obama’s logo!

It’s so obvious that McCain got his idea from Obama. I mean just look at it! Why would McCain just randomly pick red stripes and some blue swishy thingies and what looks like a starburst? He so obviously took the idea from Obama, and I’m sure Obama’s team spent months working on those very ideas.

Look, I found this other weird thing online that totally copied Obama too! Gah it’s just so annoying and WRONG!

Original story from The Huffington Post. They are kind of very annoying.

This made me LOL. Literally.

As far as I can tell, it originally came from this blog. But really, I dunno.

11 minutes of glory.

Steven Bushong inspires me.

In other news, this is just ridiculous:

South Carolina’s nice, pleasant license plate has been replaced by the fugliest piece of crap ever. Can somebody say horribly outdated typography, nondescript, misaligned images and an ugly shameless website plug that looks like it escaped from AOL 2.5??

The new plate:

The old nice, pleasant plate:

The free optional religious plate that I’m considering getting because it’s a thousand times better designed than the new plate:

This new, horrible license plate is the result of a statewide design contest. Check out thumbnails of the top three entries. They’re all so, so bad. Why didn’t they just hire someone?!?