It took me forever to see the secret arrow in that logo.
― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Friday, 23 May 2003 00:08 (twenty years ago) link
― Kim (Kim), Friday, 23 May 2003 00:18 (twenty years ago) link
― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 23 May 2003 00:22 (twenty years ago) link
― teeny (teeny), Friday, 23 May 2003 00:25 (twenty years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 23 May 2003 00:29 (twenty years ago) link
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 23 May 2003 00:31 (twenty years ago) link
― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 23 May 2003 00:33 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 23 May 2003 01:32 (twenty years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 23 May 2003 01:34 (twenty years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 23 May 2003 01:35 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 23 May 2003 01:38 (twenty years ago) link
― Mark C (Mark C), Friday, 23 May 2003 12:11 (twenty years ago) link
Can you make otu how the gold feathers spell "MK"? DO YOU SEE?
― Mark C (Mark C), Friday, 23 May 2003 12:15 (twenty years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 23 May 2003 12:15 (twenty years ago) link
A better version...
http://www.afcw.co.uk/franchise_crest2.jpg
― Dave B (daveb), Friday, 23 May 2003 12:37 (twenty years ago) link
― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Friday, 23 May 2003 13:13 (twenty years ago) link
http://www.ambien.com/images/top/t_01.jpg
at first I thought it was just connoting "ambient", but then the weight of the "AM" part made me realize that it also means "AM" bien, or 'good morning'!!!
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 06:22 (twenty years ago) link
― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 06:33 (twenty years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 06:53 (twenty years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 07:00 (twenty years ago) link
I like this one. The Big Ten Conference originally had ten members, hence the name, but now has 11.
― Alfie (Alfie), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 07:36 (twenty years ago) link
http://www.centuryclub100.org/img/sun_logo.jpg
― JasonD (JasonD), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 07:48 (twenty years ago) link
http://www.foxpeterborough.fsnet.co.uk/necoach2.jpg
― j0e (j0e), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 08:17 (twenty years ago) link
http://www.texemarrs.com/images/proctor.jpg
― Tad (llamasfur), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 08:21 (twenty years ago) link
― ambrose (ambrose), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 15:19 (twenty years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 15:24 (twenty years ago) link
Really I just like the concept of "Junk Removal Service"
― Dale the Titled (cprek), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 16:11 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 16:16 (twenty years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 16:21 (twenty years ago) link
― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 17:11 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 17:14 (twenty years ago) link
(The arrow r0x0r.)
― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 17:15 (twenty years ago) link
― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 17:16 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 17:17 (twenty years ago) link
― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 17:18 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 17:21 (twenty years ago) link
― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 17:22 (twenty years ago) link
― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 17:23 (twenty years ago) link
― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 17:24 (twenty years ago) link
― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 17:24 (twenty years ago) link
― Chris P (Chris P), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 18:25 (twenty years ago) link
― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 18:26 (twenty years ago) link
between the e and the x!
(and between the F and the e)
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 18:35 (twenty years ago) link
yep that logo was designed by a guy called raymond loewy (initailly an industrial designer rather than a train designer - he designed coca cola vending machines among other things) but he designed some phenomenal logos, including Shell Oil, Exxon, BP, Us Mail, Lucky strike - an almost endless list.
maybe someone can post these if they are bored cos i dunno how to do it.
http://www.io.tudelft.nl/public/vdm/fda/loewy/lwy67.jpg
http://www.ucad.fr/pubgb/virt/mp/lu/graphics/sigle4low.jpg
http://www.designboom.com/portrait/loewy/8.gif
I wish i could find one of his New Man Logo - which is very beautiful and clever.
― jed_e_3 (jed_e_3), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 21:51 (twenty years ago) link
― jed_e_3 (jed_e_3), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 21:53 (twenty years ago) link
Jed, with ILX (not generally), if you'd just made the https ihttps, then it would have made them appear as images in the thread.
― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 22:21 (twenty years ago) link
― colin o'hara (jed_e_3), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 23:33 (twenty years ago) link
― colin o'hara (jed_e_3), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 23:38 (twenty years ago) link
― jed_e_3 (jed_e_3), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 23:38 (twenty years ago) link
― jed_e_3 (jed_e_3), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 23:39 (twenty years ago) link
http://www.greenpoint.com/images/logo.gif
― Scaredy Cat, Thursday, 28 August 2003 00:26 (twenty years ago) link
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 28 August 2003 00:27 (twenty years ago) link
― scaredy, Thursday, 28 August 2003 00:27 (twenty years ago) link
― scaredness pussy, Thursday, 28 August 2003 00:28 (twenty years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 28 August 2003 00:42 (twenty years ago) link
Anyway, back to the FedEx thing-- I'm surprised how many DESIGNERS that I point that out to that go, "... oooohh YEAH! HOLY SHIT! I NEVER NOTICED THAT!" Really, it's in the dozens because I started pointing it out almost 10 years ago.
― Natola (Scaredy Cat), Thursday, 28 August 2003 00:48 (twenty years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 28 August 2003 03:22 (twenty years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 28 August 2003 03:23 (twenty years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 28 August 2003 03:24 (twenty years ago) link
http://www.nobell.org/~gjm/nobell/images/attlogo-1p108vcv.gif
― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 28 August 2003 05:11 (twenty years ago) link
― Mark C (Mark C), Thursday, 28 August 2003 10:48 (twenty years ago) link
― jed_e_3 (jed_e_3), Thursday, 28 August 2003 11:25 (twenty years ago) link
http://www.jeb.be/images/Apple/apple_logo_(640x480).jpg
― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 00:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 01:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 01:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 01:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 01:15 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.clivebanks.co.uk/Doctor%20Who%20Pictures/Doctor%20Who%20Logo.jpg
became
http://www.virgovision.co.uk/drwho/basicimages/logo40A.gif
for the 40th anniversary. It's brilliant. I want to shake the hand of the person who thought of it.
― New No New Age Advanced Ambient Motor Music Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 01:17 (nineteen years ago) link
thought this was cleaver / lucky:
http://boomkat.com/downloads/627846-etienne-de-crecy-essentials-best-of
http://assets.boomkat.com/images/643454/333.jpg
― koogs, Monday, 17 December 2012 11:49 (eleven years ago) link
figure/ground shit is the best.
― ledge, Monday, 17 December 2012 11:53 (eleven years ago) link
i never realized the chevrolet bowtie could be a car
― j., Monday, 25 August 2014 21:25 (nine years ago) link
my last one has broken. it was this: https://www.discogs.com/Etienne-De-Cr%C3%A9cy-Essentials-Best-Of/master/875313
saw another one last night, as seen on 1000 london buses:
http://ticketimage.interpark.com/PlayDictionary/DATA/PlayDic/PlayDicUpload/040001/08/06/0400010806_4819_01.gif
― koogs, Tuesday, 12 September 2017 19:02 (six years ago) link
(the pupil-dancers)
― koogs, Tuesday, 12 September 2017 19:03 (six years ago) link
Not a visual pun, but the Teva Pharmaceuticals English/Hebrew logo looks like graf
https://1.next.westlaw.com/Link/Document/Blob/29be957f-b9bd-48f5-ae39-dbd0cb7fc35c.jpg?targetType=NEWSROOMIMAGE&rendition=rend:viewImage
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Thursday, 1 March 2018 14:59 (six years ago) link
This one?
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS84MTlqH8EsxjrnxjvF4M9LEzOOJR9SNN9Kqn4kWB-1ttVw9iO6w
― koogs, Thursday, 1 March 2018 18:07 (six years ago) link
cambridge analytica's logo -- it's a connect-the-dots of the brain. You get enough data points and you can create a picture of a person's mind.
https://tr1.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/2018/03/19/d0ee280e-1e87-4094-8358-496427b583b5/s6cambridgeanalytica.jpg
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 17:56 (six years ago) link
From the mists of 40 years ago, I just remembered the Kaufman Carpets logo (lower right)...
https://s1.nyt.com/timesmachine/pages/1/1976/09/26/113450646_360W.png
...which can be read either as "Kaufman Carpet, The Experts" or "Kaufman, The Carpet Experts"
It kinda blew my 12-year-old mind.
― Hideous Lump, Sunday, 30 September 2018 18:02 (five years ago) link
With the comma placement it can also be read as (lastname, firstname) Carpet Kaufman. Private First Class Carpet Kaufman.
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 30 September 2018 18:42 (five years ago) link
the experts by carpet kaufman (underrated postwar novels i have owned)
― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 30 September 2018 18:48 (five years ago) link
this was brought to my attention recently... toblerone:
https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1150/1380466813_c9fedd5e94.jpg
― visiting, Friday, 7 December 2018 20:28 (five years ago) link
https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5d4534da768177c0ea3ad48e1ad93bd1d80e41209689397e7ba5efeaad02c695/AN_CityofBasketball2.jpg
― koogs, Friday, 10 May 2019 12:30 (four years ago) link
Where is the city of basketball?
― Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Friday, 10 May 2019 12:38 (four years ago) link
it's not a real cityhttps://adriannewell.co.uk/City-of-Basketball
― StanM, Friday, 10 May 2019 12:40 (four years ago) link
Right, I thought it might have been invented in Wolverhampton or somewhere.
― Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Friday, 10 May 2019 12:44 (four years ago) link
more negative space fun
https://www.itsnicethat.com/system/files/102019/5daef67a7fa44c19370004ae/images_slice_large/paris_2024_olympic_paralympic_logo_marianne_graphic_design_itsnicethat5.jpg
― koogs, Tuesday, 22 October 2019 14:43 (four years ago) link
(actual logos on the paris website are in some .json format, like svg but .json. not seen that before.)
― koogs, Tuesday, 22 October 2019 14:44 (four years ago) link
Clara Bow?
― I don't get wet because I am tall and thin and I am afraid of people (Eliza D.), Tuesday, 22 October 2019 14:55 (four years ago) link
Marianne
https://www.itsnicethat.com/news/paris-2024-olympics-and-paralympics-logo-marianne-graphic-design-221019
― koogs, Tuesday, 22 October 2019 15:20 (four years ago) link