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OT is getting too serious again...
So today I was reading a local daily newspaper and saw an ad, apparently for a 'literary festival' this weekend in Winnipeg. The logo for the C4 Lit Fest had the C4 in a stylised maple leaf, with the words Lit Fest beside it - I haven't been able to find a copy of it on line - but the title looked clearly like:
C Lit Fest
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This reminded me that I haven't enjoyed a c lit fest in a long time.
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Last provincial election, Elections Manitoba gave out buttons, fridge magnets, etc. with the catchy phrase, "You Count! Vote!". Problem was, the letter 'o' in 'count' was stylised with a checkmark through it - the idea being to make it look like a checked circle on a ballot. The effect, however, was to effectively remove the 'o' from the word...
A local comic, who had absolutely no interest in politics, had a lot of fun with this.
Does anyone else have examples of advertising copy gone wrong?
So today I was reading a local daily newspaper and saw an ad, apparently for a 'literary festival' this weekend in Winnipeg. The logo for the C4 Lit Fest had the C4 in a stylised maple leaf, with the words Lit Fest beside it - I haven't been able to find a copy of it on line - but the title looked clearly like:
C Lit Fest
4
This reminded me that I haven't enjoyed a c lit fest in a long time.
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Last provincial election, Elections Manitoba gave out buttons, fridge magnets, etc. with the catchy phrase, "You Count! Vote!". Problem was, the letter 'o' in 'count' was stylised with a checkmark through it - the idea being to make it look like a checked circle on a ballot. The effect, however, was to effectively remove the 'o' from the word...
A local comic, who had absolutely no interest in politics, had a lot of fun with this.
Does anyone else have examples of advertising copy gone wrong?
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