I noticed the other day that the logo for the police in Australia seems quite a bit similar to the famous dog company Purina.
And I thought that police were pigs!
Purina is a global company and even has an Australian website. I wonder if Australians also find it odd that police stations look like a place that sells snausages?
Another interesting tid-bit is that in Japan, a dog is the animal that people associate with the police. This is because the police, like dogs, are loyal, serve, and protect.
I’m not sure if that is what they were going for with the logo in Australia though…
And…another interesting note…the Chicago police wear that same design on their hats. It’s quite distinctive.
really? interesting! i wonder what that design means!?
Found this on the topic:
The Chicago Police Department is one of only a handful of police agencies in the United States to use the checkered bands on its headgear, known as the Sillitoe Tartan after its originator, Percy Sillitoe, Chief Constable of Glasgow, Scotland in the 1930s. Where British, Australian and New Zealand Sillitoe tartans feature three rows of smaller squares, Chicago’s has two rows of larger squares. The checkerboard colors for patrolmen, detectives, dogs and horses are blue and white; the colors for sergeants and higher ranks are blue and gold. Service caps, the campaign hats of the mounted unit, bicycle helmets, knit caps, dog collars, and horse browbands all bear the Sillitoe tartan; the edge of the ball caps’ bills show a narrow, flattened Silitoe tartan. The department also uses the pattern on some signage, graphics, and architectural detail on newer police stations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sillitoe_Tartan
that’s really interesting… nice research! so why do you think purina decided to use a logo for cops???
well since you asked:
The inspiration for the Ralston Purina logo came from a family from founder William Danforth’s childhood who dressed in checkerboard cloth. The checkerboard trademark, intended to make their burlap bags of feed stand out from competitors, was introduced in 1904. Ralston Purina’s headquarters was called Checkerboard Square. At one point, Ralston Purina owned an interest in the St. Louis Blues National Hockey League team; during this period, the arena they then used was referred to as the “Checkerdome”.
The checkerboard logo then evolved into personal development concept Danforth put forth in his book I Dare You, in which he proposed that four key components in life (“Physical,” “Mental,” “Social,” and “Religious”) need to be in balance, and one area was not to develop at expense of the other. The concept became intertwined with the company in 1921, when it began selling feed that was pressed in cubes called “checkers”.
wow… nice research on that one too! very interesting!
if nothing else, i am thorough! 🙂