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Airbnb is apologizing about posting a series of passive-aggressive, totally off-the-mark Muni shelter ads that have been popping up all around town. And in response, San Franciscans have made their own memes with even better sarcasm than one could have ever hoped.
At first these ads seemed too ridiculous to be real (one ad reads, “Dear Public Works, please use some of the $12 million in hotel taxes to install more electric vehicle charging stations.” Really? This is the ad you put on a Muni shelter?)
It’s no secret that we at Muni Diaries love coworking site Parisoma. Not only do they provide seats for your fannies at Muni Diaries Live storytelling events, they also offer classes for your learnin’. Learning is good.
Tonight’s class, Productivity by Design: Design Your Workflow, will cover principles and tools of workflow design, learning how to define and redesign the primary components of your day-to-day productivity workflow. Grab a ticket and get at it!
The Muni Worm. You know it, you love it, you live it. Wait, you live it? How does that work?
SFMTA recently posted a brief history of Muni logos dating back more than 100 years. It all sets the stage for what has become quite the iconic brand: The Muni Worm.
The 1970s brought about some major changes in our transit system and among them was a whole new redesign of Muni’s look. In 1975, the most famous Muni logo of all, the “Worm”, designed by Walter Landor, debuted with a very 70s looking “Sunset” livery, as seen here on freshly painted Flyer trolley coach 5001. […] On a side note, Landor also worked on some other perhaps even more famous designs like the Levi’s, Federal Express, World Wildlife Fund logos and a 1980s Coca-Cola redesign.
In case you doubt just how prevalent the Worm is, here are some examples:
New sweatshirt features Muni worm, your mom
Another Muni worm tattoo surfaces
Find the Muni Worm in the strangest places
Okay, now I can kinda see how you live it …
The Muni Worm is an “Only in San Francisco” thing, just like the system it represents. Join us at Muni Diaries Live this Saturday for a celebration of Muni and San Francisco. It’ll be a night of true, hilarious, weird, and sweet stories that can only happen on Muni! Grab a ticket and we’ll see you there!
Photos courtesy SFMTA