BEIJING — What should have been little more than the public unveiling of a new corporate logo has turned into a sort of automotive Rorschach ink-blot test, with critics from around the globe weighing in on what they see in the new Geely logo.
The reaction was swift and negative from the site WorldCarFans, which likened the Geely logo to "Coily [the snake] from Q*bert," an old arcade game. One reader at China Car Times went further and referred to it as "a piece of chromed dog poo." Nonetheless, independent Geely says the new logo "will help accelerate the pace of its strategic transformation."
The new logo was unveiled on Tuesday as the culmination of a design contest that saw the submission of 27,336 entries. The winner was designed by Yue Xiande, who won a whopping $483,675. The winning logo was picked after online voting and further scrutiny by "66 professional adjudicators."