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Posted in worst graphic design | Tagged worst graphic design, cyrenian house | 26 Comments

26 Responses

1. on March 3, 2008 at 11:19 am | Reply crankynick

   I’ve always hated that bloody font: isn’t it the one ‘The Mission’ used on their album covers for a while?

   
   
2. on March 3, 2008 at 12:37 pm | Reply tomthrett

   papyrus. we used this in one of our folio submissions, rofl!

   
   
3. on March 3, 2008 at 1:07 pm | Reply The Lazy Aussie

   I don’t mind the font so much. The words alone without the logo would look fine.

   
   
4. on March 3, 2008 at 3:49 pm | Reply flynn

   The third figure is just being patriotic by doing a swan dive.

   
   
5. on March 3, 2008 at 5:48 pm | Reply crankynick

   It is probably, to be fair, as much a comment on my enduring loathing of The Mission as anything to do with the actual font.

   
   
6. on March 3, 2008 at 7:15 pm | Reply adam1975

   It’s the sort of graphic design effort that you know the person responsible had the best intentions. But they should’ve left the crayons in the box.

   
   
7. on March 3, 2008 at 11:30 pm | Reply SkyLantern

   Don’t do drugs or you’ll be locked in a box with people farting on you. The only escape is to leap to your death. Drugs are bad, m’kay.

   
   
8. on March 4, 2008 at 9:47 am | Reply skink

   didn’t the Marquis de Sade write about a fetish involving being locked in a box that had an opening through which people might defecate on you?

   
   
9. on March 4, 2008 at 9:49 am | Reply The Lazy Aussie

   I’m sure it’s been an art installation as well.

   
   
10. on March 4, 2008 at 2:36 pm | Reply The Lazy Aussie

    Adam, it looks like a freebie or done by a friend of someone to me. You should always pay for your graphic design. That way it’s easier to reject it if it is bad.

    
    
11. on March 4, 2008 at 2:49 pm | Reply Levon

    Papyrus is also the same font used by Steve Irwin’s show “The Crocodile Hunter”.

    (Insert inappropriate Steve Irwin’s leaping ghost joke here, followed by “too soon?”; then get booted from TWOP)

    Does anyone actually know what “Cyrenian” means? It isn’t explained on their website.

    
    
12. on March 4, 2008 at 2:51 pm | Reply The Lazy Aussie

    You won’t get booted for Steve Irwin jokes, unless it’s something his estate can sue for.

    
    
13. on March 4, 2008 at 2:56 pm | Reply skink

    The Cyrenian was the man who helped Jesus carry his cross.

    (Cyrene was a city in North Africa)

    hence the Cyrenian societies help the disadvantaged carry their burdens

    
    
14. on March 4, 2008 at 2:59 pm | Reply skink

    “And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name: him they compelled to bear his cross.” (Matthew 27:32)

    “And they compel one Simon a Cyrenian, who passed by, coming out of the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to bear his cross.” (Mark 15:21)

    
    
15. on March 4, 2008 at 3:02 pm | Reply skink

    “and behold, when he was finished they placed The Cyrene in a cardboard box and a centurion farted through an apperture in his face as pennance” (Skink 13.01pm)

    
    
16. on March 4, 2008 at 3:12 pm | Reply Levon

    Isn’t Cyrene one of the new Gladiators?

    
    
17. on March 4, 2008 at 3:31 pm | Reply skink

    quite possibly Levon, the city of Cyrene was named after a character from Greek mythology – a beautiful woman who wrestled a lion. Apollo saw her grappling and fell in love with her.

    it would therefore be a good name for a Gladiator.

    now all you have to do is suggest that this Gladiator is a YWL to close the loop and win this week’s TWOP Circle of Nonsense.

    
    
18. on March 4, 2008 at 4:57 pm | Reply Greg Tangey

    Argh! i read the post thinking and viewed the pic thinking.. “Damn papyrus, such an ugly font” only to find everyone else has already bashed it down :P

    
    
19. on March 5, 2008 at 11:46 am | Reply Mike

    Oh jeez I hate that font so much. I’d like to kick every designer who’s used it in the nuts/boob.

    I feel that strongly, yes.

    
    
20. on March 5, 2008 at 5:25 pm | Reply Ryan

    http://www.iheartpapyrus.com/

    
    
21. on March 5, 2008 at 7:30 pm | Reply flynn

    Any-one that can recognize a font name should really get out a bit more.

    
    
22. on March 5, 2008 at 7:37 pm | Reply The Lazy Aussie

    Font hating is a very popular hobby. search for “hate comic sans” and you’ll see something.

    
    
23. on March 5, 2008 at 8:01 pm | Reply Art Heretic

    Comic Sans walks into a bar. The barman says “we don’t serve your type here.”

    
    
24. on March 8, 2008 at 1:37 pm | Reply The Lazy Aussie

    Covered on the hating Papyrus font site.
    http://www.iheartpapyrus.com/2008/03/cyrenian-house-s-papyrus.html

    
    
25. on May 21, 2008 at 3:04 am | Reply You’ll Ruah the day « The Worst of Perth

    [...] pathetically low, but as The Worst of Perth, I’m more outraged by the use of that fucking Papyrus font and the logo. Are the clients supposed to be brown stains to be wiped up by the absorbent paper [...]

    
    
26. on July 3, 2008 at 3:03 am | Reply They’re all gone Man « The Worst of Perth

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