{"id":3881,"date":"2022-01-06T09:59:49","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T09:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pabconference.com\/this-missouri-countys-redesigned-seal-is-a-photoshop-atrocity\/"},"modified":"2022-01-06T09:59:49","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T09:59:49","slug":"this-missouri-countys-redesigned-seal-is-a-photoshop-atrocity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wijhha.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/06\/this-missouri-countys-redesigned-seal-is-a-photoshop-atrocity\/","title":{"rendered":"This Missouri County’s Redesigned Seal Is a Photoshop Atrocity"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As the old saying goes, if you can’t do something right, do it anyway! Saint Francois County, Missouri, with a population of 65,359 (as of the 2010 census), has made national news as it debuted in a new iteration of their county seal. The design appears to have been compiled in a 1995 version of Microsoft Paint, the handiwork of Saint Fran\u00e7ois County Commissioner Harold Gallagher.<\/p>\n

\u201cI understand there is a fever on social media around the county seal,\u201d Gallagher said at the committee’s January meeting, quoted online by the Daily Journal. “It was a rush deal when I had two days for the audience to come up with a stamp and my determination was proof positive that I’m not artistically inclined.”<\/p>\n

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But I ask you, could a non-artist have skillfully manipulated the current seal symbols: a <\/strong>american flag, bald eagle in flight, pick and axe, likely shape of county, and <\/strong>A book with a giant cross appeared from it? It takes a special kind of vision to take something really bad and make it definitely worse. Much worse, if one had to put this down exactly <\/em>Seal in a satirical TV show like, Saturday Night Live<\/em> or Gardens and recommendation<\/em>It would be very silly to blame.<\/p>\n

The poor design lies mostly in the photo-realistic elements of poorly resolved clip-art style, which Gallagher expanded from the 1982 edition of the stamp, creating a host of synthetic slips \u2013 but the stamp on the stamp is the bright red streak encircling this jumble of Pictures. As one Reddit commenter noted, it’s a missed opportunity for Comic Sans. Apparently, the county seal’s redesign has been a Gallaher’s pet project for years, as it was photographed alongside two copies of previous iterations of the seal during the “State of the County” headline on February 19, 2018. I think we found the one disaster that can’t be attributed to the impact of COVID-19, but only to the reluctance of ordinary people to actually hire artists to do the things that artists are good at.<\/p>\n

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