Sun Microsystems logo: the most beautiful logo design (objectively)
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Sun Microsystems logo: the most beautiful logo design (objectively)
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Re: Sun Microsystems logo: the most beautiful logo design (objectively)
#2The logo SUN Microsystems had is a 4-way ambigram with rotational symmetries. Designed by Professor Vaughan Pratt of Stanford, the logo features 4 interleaved copies of the word "sun", forming a rotationally symmetric ambigram, with the letters U and N in each word forming the letter S for the next word.
You can read the word "sun" if you rotate your head by 45°, 135°, 225°, or 315°.
* Objectively according to me. :P
Re: Sun Microsystems logo: the most beautiful logo design (objectively)
#3Yet one more amazing thing that Dr. Vaughan Pratt invented. Its depressing how big of a gap there is between the top computer scientists and everybody else.
Re: Sun Microsystems logo: the most beautiful logo design (objectively)
#4The logo SUN Microsystems had is a 4-way ambigram with rotational symmetries. Designed by Professor Vaughan Pratt of Stanford, the logo features 4 interleaved copies of the word "sun", forming a rotationally symmetric ambigram, with the letters U and N in each word forming the letter S for the next word. You can read the word "sun" if you rotate your head by 45°, 135°, 225°, or 315°. * Objectively according to me. :P
It reminds me of Columbia Sportswear's logo [0] but it's cleverer. There's a third logo that reminds me of both of those but I've forgotten whose it was...
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Sportswear#/media/Fil...
Re: Sun Microsystems logo: the most beautiful logo design (objectively)
#5Every time I see someone wearing a Columbia jacket I think "were they once an employee or client of Sun?"
Re: Sun Microsystems logo: the most beautiful logo design (objectively)
#6The logo SUN Microsystems had is a 4-way ambigram with rotational symmetries. Designed by Professor Vaughan Pratt of Stanford, the logo features 4 interleaved copies of the word "sun", forming a rotationally symmetric ambigram, with the letters U and N in each word forming the letter S for the next word. You can read the word "sun" if you rotate your head by 45°, 135°, 225°, or 315°. * Objectively according to me. :P
It reminds me of Columbia Sportswear's logo [0] but it's cleverer. There's a third logo that reminds me of both of those but I've forgotten whose it was... [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Sportswear#/media/Fil...
I wonder if rotating each quadrant by 90 degrees was an effort to avoid trademark confusion.
Also, I would have liked some Sun swag from Columbia.
Re: Sun Microsystems logo: the most beautiful logo design (objectively)
#7I think it's an objectively "clever" logo but not necessarily objectively "beautiful" one. Does that make sense?
Re: Sun Microsystems logo: the most beautiful logo design (objectively)
#8This logo is also technically a swastika in the heraldic sense (four-armed cross, arms bent at 90 degrees, with rotational symmetry).
Re: Sun Microsystems logo: the most beautiful logo design (objectively)
#9I think it's an objectively "clever" logo but not necessarily objectively "beautiful" one. Does that make sense?
I think you just introduced subjectivity to the conversation
Re: Sun Microsystems logo: the most beautiful logo design (objectively)
#10The logo SUN Microsystems had is a 4-way ambigram with rotational symmetries. Designed by Professor Vaughan Pratt of Stanford, the logo features 4 interleaved copies of the word "sun", forming a rotationally symmetric ambigram, with the letters U and N in each word forming the letter S for the next word. You can read the word "sun" if you rotate your head by 45°, 135°, 225°, or 315°. * Objectively according to me. :P
Wow, now that you pointed it out, I just saw the "un" part of that. Until now, I just thought it was four 'S's.