Tuesday, August 19, 2008

In tough economic times, always look to the bank that makes a paper airplane out of its logo.

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Banks love their logos. They'd perform oral sex on them, if they could get their mouths around them. Deutsche's is a geometric dick in a box. The Bank of New York's looks like a Spirographic orifice. And last year, Chase unzipped its pinstriped pants and and shot a huge load of pearly white logos all over the metro NYC area. But, dick jokes aside, what better conveys rock solid financial stability than a cutesy red paper plane logo fake-flitting through the air in a full page ad in the Wall Street Journal? Maybe...a man holding a 25-foot tall stick of cotton candy? other bank ads: HSBC bank ad is a complete mystery; Dude chill, it's a CD, not the Fountain of Youth; because King Kong doesn't have a firm understanding of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act?

4 Comments:

Blogger K said...

Wow. Icing on the cake: that cloud behind the plane makes it look like it's trailing smoke on the way down.

4:13 PM  
Blogger david t said...

that paper plane sure doesn't look like it's taking off.

5:05 PM  
Blogger Patrizzi Intergarlictica said...

What are they trying to say? They've got dive bombers at the ready to blow up oil tankers on the interstate? Are they jonesing for a defense contract or are they a bank? What kind of bank are they? Uhem...in this era of change.

Does anyone one read that kind of copy anymore? 1950 retro

9:29 PM  
Blogger Unknown said...

Totally looks like it's about to crash into the bridge. How could they miss that?

8:06 AM  

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