{"id":12286,"date":"2007-03-23T09:10:13","date_gmt":"2007-03-23T09:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2007\/03\/whats-in-your-logo.html"},"modified":"2007-03-23T09:10:13","modified_gmt":"2007-03-23T09:10:13","slug":"whats_in_your_logo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/23\/whats_in_your_logo\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#039;s in your logo?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\/\/na\/\/ Friday logo nerdery for your delectation: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Even if you don&#8217;t have tastes-great\/less-filling debates about Paul Rand vs. Saul Bass (and God help you if you do), there&#8217;s plenty to enjoy in this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.logoorange.com\/logodesign-A.php\">Logo design history<\/a>. Many of the logos are available for download in EPS format.&#160; Too bad there&#8217;s nothing about the old Adobe logo&#8211;the one that looked like rolls of paper for a printing press. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.core77.com\/blog\/education\/logo_design_history_5603.asp\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Cutting to the present, Graphic Design USA features a look at recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdusa.com\/issue_2005\/04_apr\/feature\/feat_01.php\">logo trends<\/a> (and not just the bloopy &quot;Web 2.0&quot; schtick).<\/li>\n<li> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.logotypes.ru\/default_e.asp\">Logotypes.ru<\/a> is a carnival of copyright infringement, and I&#8217;ve loved it for years, downloading &amp; spoofing many famous designs.&#160; (The first rule of Logotypes is <em>you do not tell your legal department about Logotypes.<\/em>) <\/li>\n<li>Speaking of spoofs, Mike Judge&#8217;s future-satire <em>Idiocracy<\/em> features  all kinds of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.underconsideration.com\/speakup\/archives\/003066.html\">logo &amp; brand remixes.<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/logopond.com\/\">Logopond<\/a> offers a plentiful feed of design inspiration.&#160; Viva <a href=\"http:\/\/logopond.com\/gallery\/detail\/7713\">Napalm Riot<\/a> &amp; this little <a href=\"http:\/\/logopond.com\/gallery\/detail\/8270\">devil-mouse<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>Okay, it&#8217;s not logo-related per se, but check out the NYC Transit Authority <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/triborough\/sets\/72157594441672864\/detail\/\">style guide from 1970<\/a>.&#160; It&#8217;s amazing that if it weren&#8217;t for the date stamp on the gallery, it would be hard to know that this isn&#8217;t a current design document.&#160; Is that a good thing (viva timeless Helvetica!) or a bad one (when in doubt, we punt and go with clean-n&#8217;-unobjectionable)? [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandspankingnew.net\/\">Via<\/a>]\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\/\/na\/\/ Friday logo nerdery for your delectation: Even if you don&#8217;t have tastes-great\/less-filling debates about Paul Rand vs. Saul Bass (and God help you if you do), there&#8217;s plenty to enjoy in this Logo design history. Many of the logos are available for download in EPS format.&#160; Too bad there&#8217;s nothing about the old Adobe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12286"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}