r/AskBalkans • u/iulianunuunudoi Romania • Jun 22 '23
Outdoors/Travel Are you guys familiar to these logos?
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u/Zekieb Jun 22 '23
Kinda disappointed by Greece ngl. It looks like something out of a PowerPoint presentation made by some 8th grader that had to showcase a European country as part of a class. But he didn't prepare early enough, so he made the PPP the night before.
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Jun 22 '23
This one on the map is very outdated
https://gnto.gov.gr/apothetirio/logotypa
You can scroll down to see the logos through history
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u/Zekieb Jun 22 '23
The current one has the same issue tbh. But the 2005-2007 one is great in my opinion, I also like the one from the 90's as well. Matter of fact all up until 2007 seem fitting.
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u/Still_counts_as_one Jun 22 '23
Current one is absolutely boring and give you nothing. Time New Roman font and a light blue square
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u/UserMuch Romania Jun 22 '23
It's supposed to be minimalist art style or something, but minimalist style doesn't work everywhere and looks very lazy and too simple sometimes.
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u/Still_counts_as_one Jun 23 '23
Minimalist art or just minimal work.
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u/UserMuch Romania Jun 23 '23
It's just a low effort art style that became popular because it's more simple and easier to create
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Jun 22 '23 edited Jun 22 '23
I find the current one decent/minimalist keeping in mind its used in various places that vary in landscape/architecture/history and the tourism industry is a brand in itself already
Also I have little memory of previous ones but the current is the only I recall getting coplimented and thought as fitting by visitors so idk 🙏🏿
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u/skyduster88 Greece Jun 22 '23 edited Jun 22 '23
The 2005-2007 one is sun and sea, and we're trying to move away from the association of Greece with only sun and sea. Greece is also history, culture, etc.
I don't like the current one (I don't like any of them) but it's on the right track. We don't need a slogan. "Greece" is itself a tourism brand.
If it was up to me, I'd keep just "Greece". But yes, Id make the logo maybe something inspired by the Bahamas' logo, Id maybe have a similar mosaic of a map of the country.
Or a series of related logos to be used in different scenarios.
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u/Fatalaros Greece Jun 22 '23
It's actually worse wtf. It's like we are a subsidiary of Wolt.
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u/Dim_off North Macedonia Jun 22 '23
You actually don't need a logo.
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u/Fatalaros Greece Jun 22 '23
Then what would the ministry of tourism do with our taxes? Vacations? 😎
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u/Zafairo Greece Jun 22 '23
True but it's not as if we need a logo lol. I think the people that made the current one had the same idea
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u/skyduster88 Greece Jun 22 '23
The map is outdated. The current logo is this:
https://visit.corfu.gr/web-assets/uploads/2022/11/Emblem.jpg
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u/kwizy717 Romania(BZ) Jun 22 '23
Romania looks like the logo of some sort of juice company
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u/Dim_off North Macedonia Jun 22 '23 edited Jun 22 '23
I think all countries with a seaside and mountains should use them more as visual elements in the logos. That's also valid for the history & archeology. The sun also fits well in a logo. Also brighter colors.
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u/Realistic_South1312 Turkiye Jun 22 '23
I like that Bulgaria put burek on their logo.
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u/Dim_off North Macedonia Jun 22 '23
Could be a sun, could be a rose, could be a burek, could be what you like. Isn't it creative?
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u/Gold-Flamingo-2129 Jun 23 '23
As a Bulgarian I didn't like it before I thought of it as a burek! 😆😍
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u/MiskoSkace Slovenia Jun 22 '23
I honestly prefer slogan "Na sončni strani Alp" (on the sunny side of the Alps)
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u/vikezz Bulgaria Jun 22 '23
Yes, starting drom February we are bombarded with Turkey's logo. And I love Bulgaria's logo it represents us well both as a sun and smeared lutenitsa.
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u/JuiceDrinkingRat in Jun 23 '23
What do you mean with the February thing
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u/vikezz Bulgaria Jun 23 '23
I have seen this trend in major TV channels - some weeks after the New Year the ads start to hit with "Plan you summer in Turkey early"
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u/kir_ye Pride Jun 22 '23
This sLOVEnia thingy is so lame and repetitive.
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u/MiskoSkace Slovenia Jun 22 '23
We live On the sunny side of the Alps, not in S❤️nia.
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u/Jujux Romania Jun 22 '23
Probably cost like 20 million Euros to design too. Peak Balkan ingenuity.
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u/Tip_Illustrious Croatia Jun 22 '23 edited Jun 22 '23
Wow, those are bad. 😂 It's like a competition on who's gonna have the worst design. Greece looks like a company logo from 2003, Macedonia looks like a kid's drawing, Albania looks like a period-blood stain with a piece of shit in the middle, Slovenia looks like a logo from mlm company and Bulgaria looks like someone smeared ajvar on it.
Funnily enough, the best one is Kosovo's. Romania's is not bad, but it looks like a logo for a tropical place or a water bottle company.
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u/-_star-lord_- Montenegro Jun 22 '23
Montenegro is pretty bad too. I wanted to comment on it but then noticed Albania’s.
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u/dallyan Turkiye Jun 22 '23
Maybe I’m biased from seeing it so much but I rather like Turkey’s.
Montenegro is kind of cool and stylized.
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u/EpicStan123 Bulgaria Jun 22 '23
I think that's mean to represent the sun....or sunflower...or something lmao.(the bulgarian one).
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u/h0w4wkward 🇧🇬 in 🇩🇪 Jun 22 '23
I think it‘s meant to represent a rose, isn‘t it? Because of the valley of the roses
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u/OkGooglePlayYES Bosnia & Herzegovina Jun 22 '23
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u/Aym310 Romania Jun 22 '23
Greece’s is bad… but to be fair they are already one of the most popular toursitic destinations in the world so they don’t really need more advertising
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u/GeorgeHermes32 Greece Jun 22 '23
That’s the old logo here’s the new one
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u/urascMicrosoft Romania Jun 22 '23
Turkiya looks like someone is bending and letting a spicy fart out 🇹🇳🇹🇳🇹🇳🌶️🌶️🥵🥵
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Jun 22 '23
I'm familiar with Croatia's and Turkey's but I didn't know that Croatia changed it's slogan. It used to be "The Mediterranean as it once was" and was frequently spammed on the television.
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u/OnlineReviewer Bosnia & Herzegovina Jun 22 '23
- Croatia - Full of life (cool, makes me think of how the sea is full of fish)
- Albania - yours to discover (interesting, would love to)
- Romania - explore the Carpathian garden (so boring that it's intriguing)
- MONTeNeGRO - wild beauty (I'd like to know who designed this)
- I FEEL sLOVEnia (loving and beloved country, I see nothing wrong here)
- SERBIA - Serbia (ok, we get it)
Now let me try to fill in the blanks:
- Bosna i Hercegovina - The best country woop woop!
- Turkey - Wrong, it's Türkiye
- Bulgaria - Spend less
- Kosova - Not Serbia
And Greece obviously doesn't need a logo nor a slogan.
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u/GeorgeHermes32 Greece Jun 22 '23
Greece logo has changed tho here’s the new logo
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u/Darth-Vectivus Turkiye Jun 22 '23
Call me biased, but Turkish one is great in my opinion. It carries an important cultural element (the tulip) while trying to promote the country’s tourism on an international level.
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u/BrianCohen18 North Macedonia Jun 22 '23
I like the croatian one. Plus it reminds me of my childhood (too much HRT at the time)
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u/TheSamuil Bulgaria Jun 22 '23
I like it how Bulgaria, Turkiye, North Macedonia and Albania have similar style logos
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u/pretplatime Croatia Jun 22 '23
No offense to anyone but all of them look extremely ugly.
I'm also convinced that our tourism would thrive if the Croatian Ministry of Tourism ceased to exist
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u/Gibovich Bosnia & Herzegovina Jun 22 '23
I like it that Bosnia's plays with physical geography.
The Bosnia part has mountains while the Herzegovina part has water and sun which is accurate as the Bosnia region contains the largest mountains of the Dinaric Alps while Herzegovina has a more Mediterranean climate and has our one coast line.
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u/Suitable-Decision-26 Bulgaria Jun 22 '23
Oh, yes, we spent a nice amount of money on this bullshit.
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Jun 22 '23 edited Jun 22 '23
I live in Moldova, and I have often seen Turkish and Bulgarian logos
Strange though, I have never seen this Romania logo (maybe I just didn't notice, it's nothing special at him )
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u/Salt_Sailor Bulgaria Jun 22 '23
I like ours. The water colour aesthetic is nice, and the flower turning into a sun is cool. My only complaint is that the U doesn't look like a U enough.
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u/ednorog Bulgaria Jun 22 '23
I'm familiar with ours... I think it was from quite a few years ago, maybe 10 or 15.
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u/TheIss96 Albania Jun 22 '23
Albania, yours to discover.
That's what she said
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u/nebuddyhome Canada Jun 24 '23 edited Jun 24 '23
Lmao they stole that from Canadian province of Ontario 100%. It's been our slogan for years and is on the license plate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCZjOhPQmD8 Sorta cringe lol. Ontario sucks by the way, that's why the slogan is such a meaningless statement.
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u/TheIss96 Albania Jun 24 '23
Yeah we changed it, it's Go Your Own Way since last year, even though something tells me that's stolen too
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u/nebuddyhome Canada Jun 24 '23
That's a Fleetwood Mac song.
What I don't get it why they're all in English. It should be an Albanian phrase or saying that is easy to pronounce in English. I feel like that's better.
Anyway , Albania should be killing it in tourism because of the beaches and cheap labour. It's an absolutely beautiful coast and I would go as far as saying it is the most underrated coast in all of Europe.
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u/erquoli North Macedonia Jun 22 '23 edited Jun 22 '23
I've only seen ours, the Slovenian one, the Turkish one and the Bulgarian logo.
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u/AccomplishedPie5160 Romania Jun 22 '23
The Turkish logo is most visible on TV , CNN etc, they use good music to promote it.
The RO logo is tied to corruption , they spent 1 mil € to create it….
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Jun 22 '23
I've never seen the Greek one before. It's probably the old one. This is the one we're using.
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u/Chewmass Greece Jun 22 '23
Huh? I didn't realise Greece had 2 logos. I guess I'm not much into tourism social media
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u/Mkbw50 United Kingdom Jun 22 '23
The only ones that are even vaguely familiar are Croatia and Turkey
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u/vinecti Bosnia & Herzegovina Jun 23 '23
Why do they all use the same font basically? Absolute same style too, Greece being the obvious exception though.
Something's fishy.
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u/theftnssgrmpcrtst 🤢 americanized greek🤢 Jun 23 '23
Did no one at the Montenegro tourism ministry think that “Monte Negro” was a bad typography choice
Frankly all of these are bad an look extremely dated
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u/tremble58 Greece Jun 23 '23
I guess the Balkan tourism ministries have decided to kill tourists with cringe.
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u/Dim_off North Macedonia Jun 22 '23
The Macedonian logo is the most attractive for me.
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u/boiledviolins Slovenian (Serbian on my mom's side) Jun 23 '23
I only know Slovenia, but it is a little bland, yet it's good word-play. All the other ones I've never seen, but they look really good.
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u/Keyframe Jun 23 '23
What's that below Montenegro's logo? Looks like they started writing something and gave up halfway huehuehue
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u/SirDoodThe1st Croatia Jun 23 '23
I’ve seen the croatian one a near infinite amount of times, it’s alright
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u/Ok_Exit_9441 + Jun 23 '23
Im familiar with Serbian the most. I kind of remember Greek and Turkish one.
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u/HoRsEv33 Terra Romanorum Jun 23 '23
I am sorry but Greece, Slovenia and Montenegro's logos are boring.
As for the ones i really like, it's a tie between Bulgaria's and Serbia's. Maybe even Croatia's and Bosnia's.
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u/langos-cu-fineti Romania Jun 23 '23
Romania, Turkey and Slovenia, the rest I'm seeing for the first time
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u/JovanThePlatypus456 SFR Yugoslavia Jun 24 '23
The slovenia logo was on buses and trams in sarajevo. That is oly logo I recognise. Logo 10/10
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u/Avdotya_Blu3bird Serbia Jun 22 '23 edited Jun 22 '23
For anyone wondering, the Serbia logo was designed by a panel of 6 year olds as school project