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Old 04-18-2011, 10:01 AM
 
Location: NJ
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To me "worst designed" are "ugliest" are not synonomous. From a design perspective, plates where I have to be riding the ass of the person behind me to figure out what %*(&^(%* state it is gets my vote for "worst designed". I think the new Ohio may fit the bill.
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Old 04-18-2011, 10:33 AM
 
Location: Huntington Beach, CA
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as a graphic designer, I like then New NY plates (hated the old liberty plates) Love the retro look, but I always wonder why doesn't NY just use the iconic "I (heart) NY" in their plate design.

Im OK with the simple understatement of California plates.

Personally I think most plates are over-designed. Add a .com or .gov to hit and you get a major design Cluster F.

I used to love the old Florida, West Virginia and Georgia Plates
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Old 04-18-2011, 10:49 AM
 
Location: Kūkiʻo, HI & Manhattan Beach, CA
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I'm not a big fan of the current Hawai'i license plates with the "faded rainbow" design...



Unfortunately, some of the older license plate designs aren't much better...
Hawai'i License Plates 1969 to Present
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Old 04-18-2011, 11:35 AM
 
Location: Victoria TX
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I think most slogans are pretty silly. Especially the ones in such fine print, you have to kneel down in the parking lot to see what it says.

My favorite potential slogan, not yet used, is "No, It's Iowa". (From Field of Dreams, Costner's answer to the question "Is this Heaven?")
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Old 04-18-2011, 01:19 PM
 
Location: Østenfor sol og vestenfor måne
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What is with the Ohio plate? I mean, really! Celebrating nature, family farms, a land that provides the very sustenance that supports human life? Really? Is that the message Ohio wants to send? They have some nerve being proud of farming, really the most disgusting and/or boring economic practice on earth.

They should have a big picture of a plastics factory, that's the Ohio I really love, making colorful, shiny plastic stuff out of oil that will decorate the landscape for nearly an eternity after it has lost its utility. That and concrete stained with old bubblegum and car exhaust. But no, they have to have a green field.
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Old 04-18-2011, 01:36 PM
 
Location: Where Else...?
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This is the more common one I have seen for Texas:
Yeah, HTown. I hate the new plates. They look like decals. Boo!
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Old 04-18-2011, 01:56 PM
 
Location: SW Pennsylvania
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I see quite a few Ohio plates in Pennsylvania. I also have a few relatives in eastern Ohio and they of course have Ohio plates on their cars.

Something you see a lot in Ohio is plates they haven't used in years. You see people still driving with plates with the county at the bottom. Most of the time you can't even read it because it's so faded and ratty.
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Old 04-18-2011, 02:07 PM
 
Location: Appalachian New York, Formerly Louisiana
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I HATE HATE HATE New York's new plates.

That last ones had Niagara Falls, the hilly/mountainous land in between, and then the statue of Liberty with NYC behind it. I loved it.

The new ones are yellow... that's it. They are trying to call back to the plates from the 30's and whatnot but seriously, UGLY.
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Old 04-18-2011, 02:21 PM
 
Location: Lafayette, Louisiana
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How come I have NEVER seen any California license plate like these? I visited California often and I always see white background plate with red cursive 'California'.
California and Louisiana License plates look almost identical and can be confused with eash other. I see California plates quite often here, and they could almost pass for a Louisiana one. Both have the plain white background with red cursive letters and they could use a new design.
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Old 04-18-2011, 03:00 PM
 
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North Carolina has been my least favorite for many years.
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