17th February 2012, 7:11 PM
<img src="http://static.arstechnica.net/assets/2012/02/windows-8-logo-4f3ec47-intro-thumb-640xauto-30437.png">
Yay? So yeah, it's not a flag I guess, but why the angle? Actually here's a different contemporary design.
<img src="http://static.arstechnica.net/2012/02/17/windows-1-logo-4f3ec5c-intro.png">
That's snazzy with a flat look, soft curves, friendly monotone color and... oh wait that's not a recent mock up? That's the Windows logo from the 80's for Windows 1.0? Huh...
As to the top one, they paid a top firm to slap that together. Unbelievable... Hey let's see what happens if I take that logo and turn it.. recolor...
<img src="http://img600.imageshack.us/img600/4618/xboxr.jpg">
Bam! New XBox logo. It's an X, it's boxes (or even a gift box wrapped up with ribbon), it's "flat, monotone friendly", it's identifiable. So why doesn't someone get a million for that? Oh right, the main "brand" a brand designer sells is their OWN to justify their existence.
Yay? So yeah, it's not a flag I guess, but why the angle? Actually here's a different contemporary design.
<img src="http://static.arstechnica.net/2012/02/17/windows-1-logo-4f3ec5c-intro.png">
That's snazzy with a flat look, soft curves, friendly monotone color and... oh wait that's not a recent mock up? That's the Windows logo from the 80's for Windows 1.0? Huh...
As to the top one, they paid a top firm to slap that together. Unbelievable... Hey let's see what happens if I take that logo and turn it.. recolor...
<img src="http://img600.imageshack.us/img600/4618/xboxr.jpg">
Bam! New XBox logo. It's an X, it's boxes (or even a gift box wrapped up with ribbon), it's "flat, monotone friendly", it's identifiable. So why doesn't someone get a million for that? Oh right, the main "brand" a brand designer sells is their OWN to justify their existence.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)