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April 15, 2003
Not a logo, but...
Yet another entry in the "hmmm, isn't that curious?" category. On the left, below, the standard Maryland license plate. And on the right, the new plate, which is meant to honor Maryland's farmers. I'm sorry, but I find the new plate just a bit odd. Here in DC, the transient population is a given, so seeing out-of-state plates is not uncommon. So when I started seeing the plates on the right, I just assumed they were plates for New Mexico or Arizona. When I got a closer look, I was just a bit perplexed. I guess what really got me was the realistic farmscape on the bottom of the plate that just didn't seem to go with this Hawaiian sunrise thing they have going. I wonder if the designer figured out that he/she needed to be considerably different from the other Maryland specialty plate (which I prefer to Virginia's Chesapeake Bay plate): Maybe he or she thought that putting in a realistic blue sky for the farm plates might have been too similar to the Chesapeake Bay plates? Maybe. And it's not so much that there's anything wrong with the sunrise picture. But is it terrible to admit that when I think Maryland and red sky, the current political climate comes to mind in a not-so-pretty way?
Comments
another odd decision: stay with script typography, something they always seem to prefer overkill for these support- Puleeeeease... Arizona would not have a red barn, but a hokey saguaro cactus waving their arms, or cowboys roping, or these days, some pale skinned golfer with long plaid shorts and knee high white socks ;-) from a former Balti-moron now living in Arizona PS- Actually I am just as dismayed at that symbol for Maryland. -- Posted by on April 16, 2003 11:51 PM
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