Mar 10 2010Powering On!: NYC's New Condom Wrapper
New York City ran a contest to design a new logo for the free condoms it distributes every year, and apparently some guy won by just using the 'power' symbol and not actually designing anything himself. Nice, you no talent hack.
The city's health department distributes 40 million free condoms every year. But the official design was less than stimulating. Enter the Web. An online contest for a special limited edition wrapper brought out the city's more dirty-minded designers and 15,000 people voted on the finalists.
The winning "power-on" logo was thought up by Luis Acosta, a designer from Queens.Other entries in the condom contest were more suggestive. There was the image of a manhole. Another wrapper featured a subway train plunging into a dark tunnel.
Man I'd be pissed if I'd entered that contest and actually created something, then Luis comes along and wins with something he didn't even design. But that's the way life goes, you know? Constant disappointment and anger. Plus rage. Shit-ton of rage.
Official Condom Design: New York's New Sex Symbol [npr]
Thanks to Andrea, who came up with a really cool design of two skyscrapers making buttlove but didn't win because apparently all the really awesome designs were disqualified.
Reader Comments
1. naas - March 10, 2010 10:31 AM
zomg furst
2. Closet Nerd - March 10, 2010 10:31 AM
I think Pac Man would of been better.... NOM NOM NOM NOM.... just nommin
3. Mesarim - March 10, 2010 10:40 AM
If it breaks? What happens? Replace the fuse?
4. ThatGuy - March 10, 2010 10:42 AM
If i press it will it roll on for me? Because I gotta tell you putting one on drunk and in the dark is a bit$#.
5. ThatGuy - March 10, 2010 10:43 AM
Maybe it was supposed to be a small penis going into a big minge?
6. Mikey - March 10, 2010 10:48 AM
I love my town. If you don't live in New York, shut up; you are inferior and probably smell like butts.
7. STOMPY - March 10, 2010 10:52 AM
nice post...
Hey GW, i think i found a pic of you as a baby... explains a lot...
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/f?q=robot+source:life&prev=/images%3Fq%3Drobot%2Bsource:life%26hl%3Den&imgurl=7a0465afe1beb72a
8. STOMPY - March 10, 2010 10:53 AM
let me tiny that for you...
http://tiny.cc/M6FJC
9. JonnyBigChunks - March 10, 2010 10:57 AM
I'm with 5...
10. Gargamel - March 10, 2010 11:00 AM
#6 we smell like butts, and NY smells like p!ss....just sayin. MLIG
11. Closet Nerd - March 10, 2010 11:02 AM
WWJD for a free condom?
12. ThatGuy - March 10, 2010 11:03 AM
@6 I've never heard of New York Town, only New York City, could you throw a link up on for google maps?
13. ThatGuy - March 10, 2010 11:04 AM
@11 Still die for your sins?
14. QueenBeryl - March 10, 2010 11:09 AM
I don't care how cool it looks, who actually uses them?
15. -Lmega5- - March 10, 2010 11:34 AM
DO WANT.
16. Jaded Icon - March 10, 2010 11:53 AM
I wonder if he won anything? Still, this graphic "designer" doesn't really deserve any kudos.
17. Mikey - March 10, 2010 12:08 PM
@12 I was referring to NCC-1704, the USS Yorktown, not New York Town. Dur.
18. Marcie - March 10, 2010 12:22 PM
thats reminds me of a logo contest I entered in the 8th grade. I hand drew my idea for the logo then some douche comes along using microsoft word clip art and gets effin 50 bucks!!!
19. Di$hy D - March 10, 2010 12:25 PM
I submitted a pic of goatse for the contest.
I came in second.
20. Closet Nerd - March 10, 2010 12:26 PM
@17 "Shut up Meg [read Mikey]"
21. Durand - March 10, 2010 12:42 PM
Free condoms hardly makes for a good enough reason to move to NYC, but at least they're trying.
22. :V - March 10, 2010 1:36 PM
I don't want my penis to RROD
23. Shae - March 10, 2010 3:21 PM
Want to know the last time I felt disappointment and anger?
When I wrote you, GW, a Haiku of awesomeness, and didn't win the fucking ball thingys.
That's right. I said it.
24. Shae - March 10, 2010 3:23 PM
Oh, and rage. I felt that too. *shakes fist*
25. dekorasyon - March 10, 2010 3:45 PM
Thank you very much for the information you provide
26. the WTF bringer - March 10, 2010 10:08 PM
me and my gay friend got drunk in new york i took a free condom......... since everyones wondering i was the one using protection........ ew
27. polo shirts - March 11, 2010 1:31 AM
polo shirts
28. Colorless - March 11, 2010 9:09 AM
I never noticed until now that the power on button looks like a body and penis sticking out.
29. Shae - March 11, 2010 2:07 PM
@29, I was thinking it looked more like Pac Man sucking cock.
30. Max - March 12, 2010 12:13 PM
sorry, i'm a geek but i do not want that!