Nicktropolis website logo …

i cant actually upload the logo but i will include the link and i really URGE you to just check out the logo for Nickolodeon’s newwest Kid’s website  called : ” Nicktropolis”.

Click here: Nicktropolis

Is it me or does this logo seem to look somewhat like a ” phallic” symbol??  quite disturbing, no? This is a children’s website. CHILDRENS.

I know sex sells but what is this ad/logo saying about sexuality in advertising? Is this the way advertising manipulates us? Is this a marketing hidden message to ploy us …. or did they really not realize that their symbol resembled a phallic….

The readings we had to read for this week’s class…

Well i liked one reading better than the other, obviously. The article breaking down the commercials : Jamaica and Shield soap were ALOT better and easier to read than the article on the industrial revolution. I know we must know about the history of advertising and public relations but it’s so dry man. Why is the history of advertising relevant to us, today? I honestly have no idea. The industry is not what it was 50 years ago. 

At the end of the article on the Shield commercial ( the response, i guess) it mentioned the fact that the author might be ” looking into the commercial too much”, i feel that way too in a way. Do advertising agencies really do that much ” behind the scenes” work to produce a message in these commercials that is not so obvious? Do they really want to send out a pyschological message? Or is it just a commercial that is merely supposed to show the consumers using the product?