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Extra, Extra: ROM Logos, Mormons, and Margaret Atwood

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Every weekday’s end, we collect just about everything you ought to care about or ought not miss.

  • The Royal Ontario Museum has a new logo, and, according to Marketing, it’s designed to remind people that the place is “not just dinosaurs.” Maybe they should have gone the other route and doubled down on the dinosaurs. Dinosaurs are awesome.

  • It’s said that no publicity is bad publicity. That must be why the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is buying ads in programs for the upcoming Toronto run of The Book of Mormon, a Broadway musical that pokes fun at some of the tenets of the religion. [Via Jonathan Goldsbie]
  • Seemingly everyone but The Varsity missed this, but on Twitter last week Margaret Atwood threatened, ungrammatically, to disinherit the University of Toronto over a plan to replace one of its fields with astroturf. [UPDATE: March 18, 2013, 9:15 PM Nobody missed this but us! It was widely reported last week. So, that's embarrassing.]
  • Do you rent a parking spot in someone’s driveway or garage? Apparently, you’re guilty of breaking some rarely enforced City bylaws. How dare you.

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  • tyrannosaurus_rek

    (Re: the ROM) Is it too much to ask that high-profile Canadian institutions first look to Canadian designers when they want to rebrand?

    • estta

      Or, if nothing else, decent designers?

      • tyrannosaurus_rek

        That too.

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=28110435 Kate Roberts

      I like the old logo better, don’t know why they felt it needed an “upgrade”.

  • HotDang

    I’ve been looking for a religion with a sense of humour. Maybe Mormonism is for me!

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Wayne-Dequer/100000218831720 Wayne Dequer

      The official comment from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints about the musical was a droll: “The production may attempt to entertain audiences for an evening, but the Book of Mormon as a volume of scripture will change people’s lives forever by bringing them closer to Christ.”

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bryan-Cook/507835870 Bryan Cook

    The Rom design isn’t bad it will grow on us. The old one was almost identical to the Romanian logo used on bumper stickers.