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.
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10 comments

  1. Eric

    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.

  2. erik spiekermann

    The original is Futura, not Univers. But this is just a spoof and not supposed to be 100% correct. It makes its point nevertheless.

  3. hehehe… more lake quaker 2 pt. oats… nice post! i just hope those aren’t the only logos we see in the remaining decade!

  4. erik spiekermann

    …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.

  5. erik spiekermann

    Just noticed that the comments don’t support html tags, so I had to edit some comments. I’ll try and get that fixed.

  6. Caio

    some of them look just very nice actually! hehehehe just kiddin

  7. jselig

    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.

  8. Chris Keegan

    Don’t let their marketing departments see these. They will love them.

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