This is the first logo I haven't liked honestly. It looks unbalanced and unfinished.
Redesigning the Windows Logo
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Re: Redesigning the Windows Logo
#112I've never seen the original Windows 1.0 logo before (or maybe it's just been so long that I've forgotten), but I actually think that's far and away the best logo they've ever had.
I like it too.
Here's a nice SVG version that's a lot clearer than the one in the article:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/17/Windows_1.0_lo...
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#113The article and shape reminded me of the logo I did for Compiz before they merged back with Beryl: http://forum.compiz.org/viewtopic.php?f=135&t=236&p=...
It's by no means a perfect philosophy and account, but designers might enjoy the story.
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#114"By that, we mean it does not try to emulate faux-industrial design characteristics such as materiality (glass, wood, plastic, etc.)." Is "materiality" code for "skeumorphism"? Either way, it's a big middle finger to Apple.
One noticeable thing, tho not jarring, is how the window panels have vanishing points but the bars (cross) do not.
It's probably a way to ensure the smallest incarnations don't bleed together. If bars also had vanishing points, the smallest incarnation would be defined by the narrowest part of the bar, this way the width of the bar is the unit.
One thing that also plagued my Compiz logo is that horizontally asymmetric designs can look like they're about to tip over. The new Windows logo definitely feels like leaning towards left to me. I tried to solve it by adding the third dimension, but I think the answer is more vertical asymmetry.. A real perspective.
Re: Redesigning the Windows Logo
#115I've never seen the original Windows 1.0 logo before (or maybe it's just been so long that I've forgotten), but I actually think that's far and away the best logo they've ever had.
I like it too. Here's a nice SVG version that's a lot clearer than the one in the article: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/17/Windows_1.0_lo...
looks like a SIM card to me :>
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#116Paula asked us a simple question, “your name is Windows. Why are you a flag?” I have never really asked myself that question as a consumer. I have never felt "confused" that the logo is NOT a window. I have just generally liked Windows, the operating system, and have become fond of the brand after 15 years of use. This assumes that your logo MUST be a literal representation of your name. I'm curious to know why. With…
Microsoft makes the fatal error here of listening to what customers say and not what they are saying.
They do this all the time and it's why their products tend to be train-wrecks, design by committee, functions by consensus, with little personality and zero fit and finish.
This logo is an abomination. It is the kind of thing a first year design student would come up with after a weekend bender and their assignment is due first thing Monday morning. It's a failing grade.
Microsoft has invested a lot in that "flag" and people know what it means because they've seen it glued to cash registers, ATMs, their notebook computers and desktops for more than ten years. It's iconic now.
To throw that out arbitrarily is reckless. Couldn't they hire a design firm with some credibility to adjust it, give it a bit more polish, take it in a slightly new direction, without trying to literally make it a window? It already says "Windows" so why repeat yourself?
I hope someone from the Metro team goes over to whomever did this and duct tapes them to a chair and forces them to hand-write an apology note in perfect Comic Sans.
Re: Redesigning the Windows Logo
#117Paula asked us a simple question, “your name is Windows. Why are you a flag?” I have never really asked myself that question as a consumer. I have never felt "confused" that the logo is NOT a window. I have just generally liked Windows, the operating system, and have become fond of the brand after 15 years of use. This assumes that your logo MUST be a literal representation of your name. I'm curious to know why. With…
Maybe their intentions were good but the final result is terrible.
Just bring back the old WindowsPhone7 icon dammit!
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#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
I constantly use overlapping windows. If I'm tailing a continuous log, I don't need to see the full text of each line, I just need to see when the pattern changes, which I can get by having the first 10 characters peeking out from behind the left of my active window. My to-do list is big but really the first three words or so are enough to remind me of what each item is; it's behind and to the left of the tailing log…
Fair enough. It's important to have different paradigms for different work styles. You use whatever works best for you. My point was just that tiling WMs were not anachronistic back in '85.
Part of me hopes Windows will rediscover tiling, considering their new-found love for tiles.
In the unlikely event they execute on that I might actually be tempted to try windows again - for the first time in 10 years.
Re: Redesigning the Windows Logo
#119"By that, we mean it does not try to emulate faux-industrial design characteristics such as materiality (glass, wood, plastic, etc.)." Is "materiality" code for "skeumorphism"? Either way, it's a big middle finger to Apple.
Funny, that's exactly what Duarte said about Ice Cream Sandwich. I'll be honest, I kinda make the same scrunched up face when I see iOS screenshots as I do when I see a high gloss platicky KDE screenshot.
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#120Using bold flat colors and clean lines and shapes, the new logo has the characteristics of way-finding design systems seen in airports and subways.
Bold colors? As in plural colors? That's the first place they've failed. And trying to emulate an airport's system for moving people around is bad from the outset - those things are meant to be simple and boring. They do their task by being unambiguous, uniform, simple... and bland.
Sure, make your logo work in monochrome for places where it has to be (like the plastic moulding mentioned above), but in both print and digital, a single flat pale blue is pretty tepid. It also doesn't evoke the multitude of colour panes that they're trying to push in every screenshot - why not simply move their four colours to the new 'window'?