posted on April 24th, 2008 by Dustin at 6:19 pm (EST) with 5 Comments
Have you ever looked at a company’s logo and found something oddly inappropriate or sexual about it?

Maybe not that obvious, but something more subtle that can be misinterpreted with a little creative imagining. Well, the Office of Government Commerce is in the process of redesigning their logo after people started noticing something odd about it.
I don’t really know what the Office of Government Commerce’s purpose is, but Wikipedia says, “the purpose of the OGC is to support the procurement and acquisition process of public sector organizations in the UK through policy and process guidance and the negotiation of overarching service and provision frameworks.”
Probably best not to think too hard about that.
The OGC’s original logo looked like this:

Pretty boring. Now, feast your eyes on the new design that cost them about $30,000 to come up with.

Notice anything odd about it? Here, let’s turn it on its side:

Oh my, it looks like a little man grabbing is erection.
The OGC had already plastered this logo all over mouse pads and pens before people in the company immediately took notice. There is a life lesson to be learned in all this… I just don’t know what it is exactly, but it has something to do with penises.
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