10-16-2005, 08:53 PM
The media and entertainment industry imprinting of children and children's programming particularly through the use of symbols in cartoons and toys is an interesting study both on television and on the net. I had a few old bookmarks to sites like Discovery Kids and Kumon and thought it might be neat to hit some of these sites and see what kind of icons and symbols were currently visibly being used to market children's toys and entertainment. Interpreting the symbols is not a pretty picture.
PSBS Kids symbol uses a white circle with an olive green interior and the word PBS over the crown of what appears to be an image of a small chiild with uneven eyes:
http://pbskids.org/
The cartoon symbols are very imbalanced. Of special note, are the teletubbies, barney the dragon, and the postcards from buster (white rabbit). (The teletubbies are mentioned on some of the SS videos and interpreted.)
Yahooligans is another interesting one.
http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/
Of course, there's still pokomon.
Among the stranger ones is the little apple dolls:
http://www.littleappledolls.com/
The little apple dolls - "The Children of the In-between Place) (which may or may not be percieved as a kids toy) are among the oddest I've seen in a long while. Little Apple Dolls and Living Dead Dolls are about creating Mind Controlled robots on Earth. The "soulless" suggestions in these themes is not missed.
http://www.livingdeaddolls.com/lddsite.html
Living Dead Dolls use the alchemical symbol for Sulfur, a black Lorraine cross with an black infinity symbol at the bottom, as the logo and uses black and scarlet as the primary color scheme.
- B
PSBS Kids symbol uses a white circle with an olive green interior and the word PBS over the crown of what appears to be an image of a small chiild with uneven eyes:
http://pbskids.org/
The cartoon symbols are very imbalanced. Of special note, are the teletubbies, barney the dragon, and the postcards from buster (white rabbit). (The teletubbies are mentioned on some of the SS videos and interpreted.)
Yahooligans is another interesting one.
http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/
Of course, there's still pokomon.
Among the stranger ones is the little apple dolls:
http://www.littleappledolls.com/
The little apple dolls - "The Children of the In-between Place) (which may or may not be percieved as a kids toy) are among the oddest I've seen in a long while. Little Apple Dolls and Living Dead Dolls are about creating Mind Controlled robots on Earth. The "soulless" suggestions in these themes is not missed.
http://www.livingdeaddolls.com/lddsite.html
Living Dead Dolls use the alchemical symbol for Sulfur, a black Lorraine cross with an black infinity symbol at the bottom, as the logo and uses black and scarlet as the primary color scheme.
- B