Design

Maybe What Your City Needs Is a Ridiculous Fuzzy-Suited Mascot

In the municipal mascot department, it seems that North America can't compete with Asia.
City of Oshamanbe

What every Superfund site needs is a good mascot. Right?

OK, so maybe there’s never been a Superfund site mascot before. (At least not that I can find, but please, let us know in the comments if you have any examples to the contrary). But that isn’t stopping the good people of Brooklyn from proposing a mascot for the borough’s newest Superfund location, the Gowanus Canal, a notorious waterway filled with coal tar, heavy metals, PCBs, raw sewage, even gonorrhea: