45 Replies to “Government Innovation”

  5. Is it supposed to represent some kind of gear set? If so, it cannot work. Impossible. It will either seize up or break teeth. Some liberal art’s brainwave, probably. No wonder gov’ts fail at most of what they do. Math is hard.

  9. Ah, the Department of Great Leap Forward.
    And what are those little star-shaped thingies at the bottom? Bits of broken metal, like you find in the oil pan of a Trabant?
    Even barring it’s technical stupidity, that is just one brutally ugly logo — which is entirely appropriate. So much for the myth that lefties are “artistic”.

  10. Curiously… aside from the fact that these gears can’t work for three reasons, three of them interlock, the cog and gap ratio is wrong and the large one is missing a tooth and is unevenly spaced, a flaw which could only pass a government inspection. Does anyone not find it disturbing that all off the new logos of the Obama regime echo old Soviet and East German logos with their love of cogs and wheat fields….

  11. Chris, the large gear only has four teeth. Part of Barry’s cut back plan……..
    And regarding the logo? I REALLY want to see the memo from the White House that states that all new govt logos have to be some from of an “O”. This memo must exist. Every dept in the US Govt didn’t just happen on the idea.

  12. you just can’t make this shit up ! my goodness i laughed immidiatley when i saw this

  13. And the commment’s on here make me laugh even harder good job yall!! round peg in a square hole LMAO. You guy’s are so funny!! thank you!! lol.

  14. This is what you get when Fine Arts majors run the Smithsonian. Nothing says “innovation” like an “O” logo with a jammed gear train in it.
    Just give thanks they didn’t go with the light bulb. You just -know- that was one of the choices.

  16. “Does anyone not find it disturbing that all off the new logos of the Obama regime echo old Soviet and East German logos with their love of cogs and wheat fields.”
    Yep,Chris.
    Wait until this Fall,when Obama decides to start up an agriculture stimulus bill, the logo will be the beloved sickle that all North American farmers use to harvest their grain.
    Next Spring’s construction stimulus bill should feature that other beloved symbol,the hammer that all the building is done with today, and finally his true vision of America will be on display!
    It’s comforting to know that in a time of great crisis,we have an absolute amateur at the helm.

  17. It might be 3 dimensional (not all gears on one plane).
    But it is crazy to have a government department of innovation.
    Necessity is the mother of invention. I’d add that intelligence if the father. Bureaucracy fosters neither.

  18. The “stimulus” ARRA logo had similarly-unmeshed gears.
    No wonder it worked so well.

  19. Looks like something right out of the cold war era soviet graphics mill. Has the same soviet purpose too.

  20. replace the cog wheels with a hammer and sickle and it would be more meaningful

  21. Second dmorris’s motion.
    “Does anyone not find it disturbing that all off the new logos of the Obama regime echo old Soviet and East German logos with their love of cogs and wheat fields.”
    Yep,Chris.
    Even many of the Democratic posters touting Obama are eerily reminiscent of the old posters depicting Lenin and Stalin gazing off into the glorious future of the “joy bringers” utopia.
    This appears to be an attempt to obfuscate the Great Leap Backward through the Long March of economic disaster.

  22. Just one more dopey demonstration of the Obama administration’s detachment from reality.
    And those are the gears his been giving everyone from the beginning.

  23. What was wrong with he old logo of the guy hitting himself in the head with a hammer over and over again?
    Walk away it’s perfect, leave it for history.
    “Smartest man in the room.”
    MSM

  24. A great logo for Industrial Revolution when gearing helped change the world. Something from the 21st century may a bit more innovative…

  26. The Department on Innovation is just down the hall from the Department of Silly Walks.
    btw, Isn’t there a big union that uses a gear in their logo? Co-incidence, or not?

  30. Here’s a little gem I got from a young American bureaucrat at the Department of Corporations on a thread not long ago. I got her permission to quote her because I’m classy-like.
    I had linked to a brief segment of Bill Maher’s show (I will spare you the sight of that hideous talentless midget) in which Ann Coulter said: “No, it’s worse than not having a job, having a government job, because you have somebody doing something nobody wants, taxpayers
    pay for it, and they can never get rid of them.”
    Bureaucrat wrote:
    “Somebody wants what I do. Lots of somebodies. I know this because I work in a revenue-generating division of my state’s State Department, and people pay to have me do what I do. That’s where the ‘revenue-generating’ part comes in.”
    If I follow the logic, her government job must be necessary because it exists. And “revenue generating” – fascinating. I mean, I’m sure some of what the dept. of Corporations does is necessary, but really isn’t this “revenue generating” in the “nice business you have here. Shame is something were to happen to it” sense? Or maybe she just means it’s generates revenue for her.

  31. The logo is so right! for the US government. Of course the gears
    wouldn’t rotate, at first, until one or another of the teeth broke.
    I’ve only seen such meshing gearing in drill bits where they are
    not supposed to rotate.
    The artiste was such a trivial airhead that he never looked at real
    gears, which are interesting and subtle. The design of gears which
    will sustain and transmit large torque is an important topic in mechanical engineering.

  33. Leftist have no idea of reality, only a bureaucratic could commission and approve something so obviously contradictory as this logo. Not much hope for any workable innovation under this administration.

  34. The design of gears which
    will sustain and transmit large “take” is an important topic in social engineering.

  44. Syncro, I don’t have time to read the comments, but is it safe to say that these guys are being given the gears?

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