Logo Hari Merdeka That We Don't Like At All

I was wondering if we had a National day logo competition this year. Today is the first time we are seeing this year's logo, and similar to what has happened to the slogan, it got hammered from all directions.

The only thing I thought was OK were the colors used, meaning that the designer has complied to our standard 4 colors of blue, yellow, red and white. However, beyond that, this is really bad, lousy, amateurish and downright not reflecting our progressive country.

The above picture was taken from Malaysian Insider, and it is really good to show and compare how bad looking is this logo. It gives me the feeling that it was designed from a simple software, with possibility that Microsoft Paint was used. There is no special design elements, and the message came out directly and left no room for people to interpret. The location of the words and font are too many and haphazard.

If this logo came out top in the logo competition, I would not be surprised as we are seeing again that whenever there is a competition, the best would not win. This has been happening very frequently in government tenders.

Besides, I personally think that the slogan, "55 Tahun Merdeka, Janji Ditepati" does not fit to the occasion at all. Usually whenever or whoever refers to the independence day (Merdeka), people will think about unity and progress, and it is in a form of ushering people. But this years slogan sounded very much like a statement that needs people to acknowledge and accept. We have heard Ministers defending this crap, and soon it's time that other aligned NGOs will come forward to defend it with whatever crap reasons. The worse will be for them to freely branding those who criticize as pengkhianat negara. I fear for this day...