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Re: Famous Logos Designed Entirely in CSS

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Post by tristanperry » Wed, Oct 26, 2011, 8:02 PM UTC

bcrescimanno wrote: post #27

I hate to be "that dick" so let me first say that this is damn impressive stuff; kudos to the authors for some serious CSS wizardry! It's also completely and totally useless. The person / people who did this are obviously talented and have a lot of expertise. I'd really rather see people with this level of ability contributing meaningful, useful tools / techniques to the community rather than seeing this type of post…

You're not being "that dick" - you've justified your point of a review. ("That dick" would just post "It's completely and totally useless" and leave it there).

Anywhoo, that's awesome. And I do think it's useful - as mcknz says, it's a pretty great starting point. It's also pretty great motivation :) From this, people can derive practical value.

Re: Famous Logos Designed Entirely in CSS

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Post by sabatier » Wed, Oct 26, 2011, 8:03 PM UTC

You have to weigh up the 'coolness' of such CSS trickery with the amount of extra HTML code there is, when you could have just used an image!

Re: Famous Logos Designed Entirely in CSS

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Post by VBprogrammer » Wed, Oct 26, 2011, 8:11 PM UTC

bcrescimanno wrote: post #27

I hate to be "that dick" so let me first say that this is damn impressive stuff; kudos to the authors for some serious CSS wizardry! It's also completely and totally useless. The person / people who did this are obviously talented and have a lot of expertise. I'd really rather see people with this level of ability contributing meaningful, useful tools / techniques to the community rather than seeing this type of post…

I think this is akin to drawing the Mona Lisa in MS Paint. Yes, it's impressive that it can be done. That doesn't mean you should do it and it's still outside my skill and patience level.

Re: Famous Logos Designed Entirely in CSS

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Post by lifthrasiir » Wed, Oct 26, 2011, 8:14 PM UTC

cgarvey wrote: post #30

bcrescimanno wrote: post #27

I hate to be "that dick" so let me first say that this is damn impressive stuff; kudos to the authors for some serious CSS wizardry! It's also completely and totally useless. The person / people who did this are obviously talented and have a lot of expertise. I'd really rather see people with this level of ability contributing meaningful, useful tools / techniques to the community rather than seeing this type of post…

I just deleted my comment after reading this. You said exactly what I had planned to. I wish the time spent on this project was put towards something more useful.

No, playing fun with the system itself could be useful in unexpected ways. Like esoteric programming languages (leads to the serious exploration of unconventional computation models), code golfing and obfuscated codes (helps shaping the knowledge of a particular language and often leads to the clever way to tackle problems), demoscenes (you know where the Spore came from) and hacking (with the original meaning).

As long as you are aware of doing something unconventional, it is fine to keep these sports. If he/she did put these logos in production then I'll object though.

Re: Famous Logos Designed Entirely in CSS

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Post by xnxn » Wed, Oct 26, 2011, 8:15 PM UTC

bcrescimanno wrote: post #27

I hate to be "that dick" so let me first say that this is damn impressive stuff; kudos to the authors for some serious CSS wizardry! It's also completely and totally useless. The person / people who did this are obviously talented and have a lot of expertise. I'd really rather see people with this level of ability contributing meaningful, useful tools / techniques to the community rather than seeing this type of post…

> It shows off what a clever person can achieve by tinkering with a system

You could say the same about the Gosper glider gun. I don't want to be part of a hacker community that doesn't encourage autotelic projects.

Re: Famous Logos Designed Entirely in CSS

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Post by cgarvey » Wed, Oct 26, 2011, 8:29 PM UTC

lifthrasiir wrote: post #44

cgarvey wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just deleted my comment after reading this. You said exactly what I had planned to. I wish the time spent on this project was put towards something more useful.

No, playing fun with the system itself could be useful in unexpected ways. Like esoteric programming languages (leads to the serious exploration of unconventional computation models), code golfing and obfuscated codes (helps shaping the knowledge of a particular language and often leads to the clever way to tackle problems), demoscenes (you know where the Spore came from) and hacking (with the original meaning). As l…

I completely agree with you. The act of exploration is a beautiful thing. However, my statement was based on the fact this technique has been done before. This area has been explored. While this site is executed very well, in my eyes, it doesn't offer (or attempt to, seemingly) anything I have yet to see. That was my only real point.

Re: Famous Logos Designed Entirely in CSS

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Post by iansinke » Wed, Oct 26, 2011, 8:34 PM UTC

bcrescimanno wrote: post #27

I hate to be "that dick" so let me first say that this is damn impressive stuff; kudos to the authors for some serious CSS wizardry! It's also completely and totally useless. The person / people who did this are obviously talented and have a lot of expertise. I'd really rather see people with this level of ability contributing meaningful, useful tools / techniques to the community rather than seeing this type of post…

Agree completely. As a proof-of-concept it's amazing. But practically speaking, SVG is a far better way of doing this.

Re: Famous Logos Designed Entirely in CSS

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Post by mortenjorck » Wed, Oct 26, 2011, 8:37 PM UTC

dextorious wrote: post #36

mortenjorck wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'll be impressed when someone can build a logo out of CSS... semantically .

"Semanticallity" (sic), wrt templates and css is not all it's cranked up to be. It's just voodoo thinking on the part of web designers that were taught about it circa 2000. And it basically comes from the misunderstanding that the html page is the data, when it's really just a RENDERING of the data. The data is what's on the DB or storage system --and that, yes, has to be semantically stored and attributed. The templ…

The rendering of data is data itself.

We structure databases semantically for backend developers. Why shouldn't we structure display markup semantically for frontend developers?

Re: Famous Logos Designed Entirely in CSS

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Post by ajankovic » Wed, Oct 26, 2011, 8:43 PM UTC

jneal wrote: post #2

I'm slightly blown away by this. Call my naive, but perhaps I knew this was possible but just wasn't expecting it to look as good as it does. I'm not sure what's more surprising, how good the logos look, or the fact that someone had to have spent a tremendous amount of time designing all these from scratch with CSS.

I think it is kind of an irony that code displayed underneath those excellent logos is so hard to read because of those same css effects.

Re: Famous Logos Designed Entirely in CSS

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Post by makepanic » Wed, Oct 26, 2011, 8:49 PM UTC

jwallaceparker wrote: post #34

This is really impressive. I've never seen something like this in pure CSS. If anyone knows of anything this impressive, please post a link to it.

Made something similar a while ago:

http://sy0t0s.bplaced.net/demo/hero/ - Apple logo

http://sy0t0s.bplaced.net/demo/tubes/ - Nixie tubes

http://sy0t0s.bplaced.net/demo/opera/ - Opera Browser in your browser

I have more, but don't want to spam links. If you want to see more you can crawl through the /demo/ folder on the page. Most of them are experiments with CSS3, javascript and html5.