And isn't that really a shame? Think if people would be more willing to simply say "This is what we are going to do, and we acknowledge we won't make everyone happy, so deal with it". I could rant for a long time about this quirk of our current society.
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/14/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Matthew Nuzum</b> <<a href="mailto:matthew.nuzum@canonical.com">matthew.nuzum@canonical.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 11:51 -0600, Jim Asbille wrote:<br>> Obviously IT folks are big on Google, we noticed it here and had the<br>> same conversation. The stem probably is the L but it sure doesn't<br>> look like it on first viewing.
<br>><br>> On 2/14/07, Tony Bibbs <<a href="mailto:tony@tonybibbs.com">tony@tonybibbs.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Yeah, because that's intuitive. I'll have to assume that's<br>> the case, then.
<br>><br>> Dave Weis wrote:<br>> > I think the G and L are kind of combined, I think the stem<br>> of the<br>> > strawberry is the L.<br><br>It takes a lot of guts to do creative stuff like that. Most companies
<br>would get bogged down in meeting after meeting discussing using the logo<br>in that way IF they even considered something like that at all.<br><br>The conversation would probably look like this:<br>- ZOMG! They might think we're changing our name to Googe!
<br>- And what are the connotations of using a strawberry?<br>- Some people are deathly allergic to chocolate, and will be offended if<br>we use it in the logo<br>- I still think it was a bad idea using yellow for one of the "O's"
<br>since yellow is associated with Nazi's<br>- can we make the e a little different? It looks like it's laughing at<br>me<br>- maybe we should use hearts instead of 'oo'<br>- hearts are way overdone, maybe we should make the 'oo' into two
<br>breasts wearing red negligee<br>- you dork, we can't put breasts on the logo<br>[ad infinitum...]<br><br>;-)<br>--<br>Matthew Nuzum<br>newz2000 on freenode<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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