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Our Logo Looks Like Underpants: A Case Study in Internationalization

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Re: Our Logo Looks Like Underpants: A Case Study in Internationalization

#71
The reason most of those images of underwear didn't look like their logo is because most of those pants (as us Brits refer to them as) were not proper Y-fronts.

If you look at this image - bar the colour / pattern of the underwear, it's actually geometrically similar (which the briefs they exampled were not)

http://img.thesun.co.uk/aidemitlum/archive/00418/SNF14WOM01C...

Re: Our Logo Looks Like Underpants: A Case Study in Internationalization

#72
post #62

Psh, that's not even as big a logo botch as the Brits committed to themselves: the UK Office of Government Commerce unveiled -- to much tittering and whispering -- a new "OGC" logo back in 2008 which, when rotated ninety degrees clockwise, looked like a stick figure standing and, er, "'aving a wank" in the local slang. OGC quickly reverted to its old logo, correcting the er, boner, but nevertheless in some circles (p…

What about the London 2012 Olympics logo? That can't be undone, and it can't be unseen once you see it (ie. the Fedex logo effect not in a good way).

I remember when the BBC News aired a goatse interpretation of the London Olympics logo without realising the references being made.

Re: Our Logo Looks Like Underpants: A Case Study in Internationalization

#73
I think you are missing the point. The problem is that it is just not a good logo. It doesn't mean anything, it doesn't say anything about your company. If you can't come up with a good logo just make your company name the logo. Random geometric figure is not a logo.

Re: Our Logo Looks Like Underpants: A Case Study in Internationalization

#74
post #31

Post mentions Google Comsumer Surveys http://www.google.com/insights/consumersurveys/pricing at $0.10 for targeted and $0.50 for targeted (age , gender, etc) responses this seems like a great way for getting feedback quick. Has anyone got any experience doing them ? Does anyone know how these people answer surveys, is there a web portal for people to sign up to do them ?

I've seen them smack dab in the middle of boston.com "The Big Picture". You basically can't look at more than a few of the photos without answering a google survey question. For me, looking at this page now asks me who my auto insurance provider is with: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2013/10/broken_lives_of_fuk...

I've never seen these before. I disabled blocking and was, on my first load, presented with this:

http://i.imgur.com/aYE5GC7.png

Re: Our Logo Looks Like Underpants: A Case Study in Internationalization

#75
post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I spilled some coffee on some light coloured trousers on the way to the London office. The stain was centered right in my lap and I couldn't really go around like that all day, so I stopped and bought some cheap trousers at Gap to sort me out. Pro-tip: Telling your local UK colleagues that you were running late because you stained your pants and needed to get new pants, and then offering to show people the stained pa…

Ah, wonderfully divided by a common language!!!! :) "Fanny" is a great cause of transatlantic fun too. And if you are a Brit in the US, never ever say, "Im diving out for a fag". You're gonna get some odd looks.

And British hosts, please don't offer to knock your American houseguests up in the morning, or any other time.

Re: Our Logo Looks Like Underpants: A Case Study in Internationalization

#76
post #3

the white logo in the header bar still looks like Y fronts![0] 0. in the UK.

I didn't even know what Y fronts are and it looks like underwear. Even the new one that's not suppose to still looks like underwear.

If you happen to do the Rorschach test and only see pants, please don't blame the test conductor.

Re: Our Logo Looks Like Underpants: A Case Study in Internationalization

#78
Microsoft Office 2007 came with a new feature, instead of going to the new ribbon at the top you could now highlight a chunk of text and a floating mini-toolbar would appear in which you could access the most-used commands: bold, underline, etc.

I remember the program manager demonstrating this to the closed group and announcing proudly that Office now had a `floater`.

At which point all of the Brits and South Africans either sniggered or plain exploded with laughter.

It took a while for things to settle before it emerged that the Americans in the room didn't see what was so funny, and the Brits and South Africans interpretation of a `floater` was a turd floating in a swimming pool.

The name was changed by the next time we saw the feature, if I recall correctly they went for the far less ambiguous "mini toolbar".

Re: Our Logo Looks Like Underpants: A Case Study in Internationalization

#79
post #34

Post mentions Google Comsumer Surveys http://www.google.com/insights/consumersurveys/pricing at $0.10 for targeted and $0.50 for targeted (age , gender, etc) responses this seems like a great way for getting feedback quick. Has anyone got any experience doing them ? Does anyone know how these people answer surveys, is there a web portal for people to sign up to do them ?

http://www.google.com/insights/consumersurveys/how Why is that "take the tour" button so messed up?

Hey Xux,

What issue were you having with the "take the tour" button?

Re: Our Logo Looks Like Underpants: A Case Study in Internationalization

#80

Post mentions Google Comsumer Surveys http://www.google.com/insights/consumersurveys/pricing at $0.10 for targeted and $0.50 for targeted (age , gender, etc) responses this seems like a great way for getting feedback quick. Has anyone got any experience doing them ? Does anyone know how these people answer surveys, is there a web portal for people to sign up to do them ?

I'm a co-founder of Survata (YC S12) which also runs consumer surveys. We're lower cost than Google Consumer Surveys and give professional survey design advice for free. Email us at contact at survata and we'll hook you up with a Hacker News discount. :)
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