Emily Gordon writes:

Remember the contest Greenpeace UK announced to redesign the BP logo? Our own cartoonist Pollux beat them to it, of course, but now that the official contest is closed, you’ll want to go look at the entries. From the Greenpeace UK Flickr page:

BP claim that they are ‘beyond petroleum’. But this is a company that is up to its neck in the dirtiest oil going - poised to invest in the Canadian tar sands, and causing environmental catastrophe through deepwater drilling.

Their nice green logo doesn’t really seem to fit them too well, so we ran a competition to find a logo that we could use to rebrand BP.

The results are displayed here.

Some of the entries are pretty good, especially the ones that depart from the green-and-yellow starburst motif and try something more conceptually daring, like the droplet surrounding an oil-covered hand (“not waving but drowning,” as the Stevie Smith poem goes) and the tagline “be patient.”

Or this designer’s clever and poignant approach—a repetition of BP’s logo and the text, “I still love your logo,” then a note in small type below: “I wish your oil rigs were designed as well as your brand identity.” (continued)

Pollux writes:

As you know, I’ve been doing cartoon coverage for The Wavy Rule World Cup. The very funny cartoonist Emily Flake has drawn her own cartoon on World Cup Fever.

I knew there were consequences to blowing on vuvuzelas besides serious ear damage! (continued)

Pollux writes:

To Whomever Is In Command:

From your website I learned about your need for a new Director. I am very interested in this position with the Institute of Dead and Dying Languages, and believe that my employment background is appropriate for the position. (continued)