That was Then, This is Now …
Posted By jss on April 28, 2009
Due credit to ihatemedia.com for digging this up last week: At right is the (Catholic) Archdiocesan Youth Commission logo, circa 1974.
Back then, I guess it really did look like a priest protecting and standing behind a young person. They’ve done a lot of damage to the ol’ brand, haven’t they.
I actually though the logo might be a hoax at first. I mean, why would this suddenly appear on the web now, in April 2009? I even sent out a few e-mails trying to track it down. I was not willing to trust the blog mob on this.
Then I came upon the original post (linked above.) You can see the logo here, in the AIGA Design Archives:
http://designarchives.aiga.org/entry.cfm/eid_9051
The archives are interactive but not terribly searchable, which might be why we don’t see more very inappropriate logos from history.
"Into Temptation" is a usually-but-not-always safe-for-work forum about evolving social-sexual networks and how they have changed and are changing lives. It will also loosely chronicle the research, writing and publication, I hope in 2011, of a book by the same name.
The image is broken, not that I want to see a priest molesting a boy.
Thanks BK … Fixed.
I am sure if we could travel back in time and look at the logo before the Catholic priest pedophilia scandals, we’d think it was a perfectly OK logo.
YAY finally caught up with your blog and see the funny logo!!!