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I don't want to know how much money was paid for these logos https://future.a16z.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Logo-Tran...
The new Pinterest logo is downright offensive, given how great the original was.
I don't want to know how much money was paid for these logos https://future.a16z.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Logo-Tran...
To be honest, I think this bit of fashion is just a pendulum that swings back and forth every decade or two.
One curious thing I noticed on the swing back in the opposite direction around the early 90s (when many logos changed from circles and constant-width strokes to ellipses and more 'stressed' letters): the new logos somehow seemed to me to be "cleaner" than the previous ones, even though that's also what I'd felt when things were going the other way.
> Modern software’s humdrum lack of identity has resulted in users craving more interesting, opinionated tools, tools that feel like us — or a better, more interesting, wackier version of us. The above is the kind of sentence that you'll see in almost any fashion or arts magazine. Pretty fluffy stuff. Not really the kind of thing we're used to, in the engineering community. That said, I firmly believe that there's al…
> Modern software’s humdrum lack of identity has resulted in users craving more interesting, opinionated tools, tools that feel like us — or a better, more interesting, wackier version of us. The above is the kind of sentence that you'll see in almost any fashion or arts magazine. Pretty fluffy stuff. Not really the kind of thing we're used to, in the engineering community. That said, I firmly believe that there's al…
I don't want to know how much money was paid for these logos https://future.a16z.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Logo-Tran...
The information in the logo is being reduced for specific reasons. I agree that this is de-facto loss of diversity and culture for delivery, somewhat analagous to factory methods of goods production.
> Modern software’s humdrum lack of identity has resulted in users craving more interesting, opinionated tools, tools that feel like us — or a better, more interesting, wackier version of us. The above is the kind of sentence that you'll see in almost any fashion or arts magazine. Pretty fluffy stuff. Not really the kind of thing we're used to, in the engineering community. That said, I firmly believe that there's al…
Every piece of software for artists / designers is not intuitive. It’s sliders, knobs, modals and panels. Programmers making design software is Not A Good Idea.
The way forward is something like ProCreate, so just the software and the pen, and maybe more auxiliary devices (a color palet for instance) to become more analog again.
Physician, heal thyself! :-)
Also - it’s a little depressing to see the Cambrian explosion of graphic style in the first 30 years of consumer software reduced to Windows and KidPix. Oh well, I guess it’s on me to “be the change I want to see in the world” and do a blog post with some other examples!
I don't want to know how much money was paid for these logos https://future.a16z.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Logo-Tran...