Branding Unfit Even for Cattle
By Izzy
According to Newsweek, patrons of tattoo parlors are increasingly getting inked with their favorite brand logos.
Perhaps that Polo pony is actually one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse.
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August 10th, 2006 at 10:52 pm
I think it was Cher from the movie “Clueless” that said “why would I want to turn myself into a walking grafitti wall?” on the subject of tattoos. Graffitti wall, billboard, same thing right?
August 11th, 2006 at 5:28 pm
So, if you got a Polo Pony tatooed on your chest (what a horrid idea), would the tatoo smolder, smoke and generally cause you great pain if you wore a non-Polo shirt? When the Brooks Brothers logo on your golf shirt came into contact with the Polo tatoo, would it be like matter and antimatter colliding?
March 17th, 2008 at 6:02 am
[…] come out with a new logo, of what looks like a polo rider on a leaping horse. Izzy is no fan of logos in general (a well-dressed man never needs to advertise brands), but the new horse is so lame it […]
July 22nd, 2008 at 6:33 am
[…] once before warned of the dangers of human branding, Izzy was dismayed to see Armani tag this model with his vaguely Fascist eagle […]