Awesome Mascots

Recently, NERF revealed its new mascot, Murph. This goofball kind of looks like a walking Koosh ball because their hairy body is made up of hundreds of NERF darts. They look pretty awesome just standing still, but the real magic comes when Murph gets their groove on. Follow Murph’s adventures on the NERF TikTok channel.

Love the look of old-school advertising mascots? This collection of digital assets from Brian Ritter Design makes it easy to incorporate these whimsical characters into your designs. The set includes five ink brushes and 250 stamp brushes for use in Procreate, along with Adobe Illustrator AI, PNG, and Affinity Designer asset files.

From Chiquita to Count Chocula, from the Geico Gecko to the Jolly Green Giant, mascots have long been a staple of the advertising industry. Author Warren Dotz’s two-volume series is filled with characters from the iconic to the obscure, from the lovable to the downright weird.

Worldwide Interweb digs up some of the most heinous examples of mascot schadenfreude they could find. Though with all of the crazy slapstick they do, sometimes it’s hard to tell what’s an accident, and what’s part of the act.