20. 01. 07
New logos for Web 2.0
Some practical joker found the time to redesign well-known logos according to Web 2.0 fashion: gradations, reflections below, bright colours. Seen on flickr, where else. The very compressed jpeg below doesn’t show the effect properly.

by erik
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10 Responses to “New logos for Web 2.0”:
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I’m not trying to be critical I just noticed at a quick glance, he didn’t redesign the FedEx logo with the ‘EX’ being ‘Ex,’ giving it the arrow in the negative space, (which is what I like about this logo) or did he use Universe 65 Bold as in the original.
I think this is a neat exercise.
Eric
January 22nd, 2007 at 13:46 pm
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The original is Futura, not Univers. But this is just a spoof and not supposed to be 100% correct. It makes its point nevertheless.
erik spiekermann
January 22nd, 2007 at 17:31 pm
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It is an interesting collection. One note: These were designed by a variety of people.
The four that I redesigned (Westinghouse, United, IBM and ABC), weren’t as much of a Web 2.0 statement but a statement about the cheap tricks the major branding firms are applying to classic Rand and Bass logos.
You can see my original post here: http://www.beadesigngroup.com/blog/archives/2006/07/logo_news_8_the_future.shtml”
Bennett Holzworth
January 22nd, 2007 at 19:07 pm
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hehehe… more lake quaker 2 pt. oats… nice post! i just hope those aren’t the only logos we see in the remaining decade!
FEI
January 22nd, 2007 at 20:11 pm
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…weren’t as much of a Web 2.0 statement but a statement about the cheap tricks…
Yes, that comes across. The trouble is that a lot of the Web 2.0 designers (who usually aren’t), use the same cheap tricks.
erik spiekermann
January 22nd, 2007 at 20:31 pm
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Just noticed that the comments don’t support html tags, so I had to edit some comments. I’ll try and get that fixed.
erik spiekermann
January 22nd, 2007 at 20:39 pm
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it’s fixed
joely hegarty
January 22nd, 2007 at 22:15 pm
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some of them look just very nice actually! hehehehe just kiddin
Caio
February 9th, 2007 at 05:37 am
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These were done by a bunch of designers over at yayhooray.com. We/They were looking for a way to kill time and were sick of seeing yet another redesign for a company giving into cheap trends.
jselig
February 9th, 2007 at 19:58 pm
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Don’t let their marketing departments see these. They will love them.
Chris Keegan
February 27th, 2007 at 04:12 am
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