Fresh off of watching Helvetica (and then watching it again — big thanks to Lex), I enjoyed this recent post at Logo Design Love (once again via Google Reader rec).
“It’s becoming more and more difficult to execute original logo designs. No matter how clever your idea, the chances are someone has created a very similar logo. Why is that? We’re all surrounded by the same influences, exposed to the same shapes, forms and patterns. With the importance of branding in the marketplace, and thousands of designers working on similar projects, it’s obvious ideas will, from time-to-time, look almost identical.”
You can see what they mean (I knew Columbia Sportswear reminded me of something):
Wayback Machine and Google Blogoscoped
Sun Microsystems and Columbia Sportswear
Many more logos and logo-a-likes here.
And now some bonus material. Including: a breast massaging robot, a face-stealing robot, and mad Mac speculationing.
Breast Massaging Robot
The Breast Massage Robot was by developed by Wang Wei, Beijing BUBBY Robot Technologies Co. It’s intended for stress and tension relief in your upper boobular area, but is also marketing itself as stimulating breast growth. (Of course.)
Described on cracked.com as “a steel bra welded to some car wash fronds and model train motors.” Discuss.
Face Mimicking Robot
Using a stretchy material pulled and pushed over motorized shafts, the Waseda-Docomo face robot (WD-2) adjusts itself to mimic your face.
WD-2 manipulates 17 facial points to accurately simulate facial expressions. It dynamically shifts its bone structure and size to match yours, while projecting your face (and hair) onto itself. Spooky, excellent, spexcellent?
It’s fascinating to watch it adjust in profile — the image at far right in the video.
Apple Speculation
With a glass trackpad and 16:9 screens, I’m almost happy that my current laptop is dying. Almost. Poor lappy.
Read the rumours here.
Digg
Facebook
del.icio.us
two comments
Thanks for mentioning my logo article, Catherine. Much appreciated!
Posted by David Airey
July 31, 2008, 3:31 AM
That face-stealing robot reminds me of an ad I saw for a smile detecting camera. How on earth does that work!? Something about that makes me really uneasy.
Posted by Tiina
July 31, 2008, 8 PM
Leave a comment
This blog post is older than 90 days old. All comments submitted regarding this post will be automatically held for review by the editors before posting. Your comment will not appear on the site until it has been approved.
Our comment policy
Shameless prides itself on the diversity of opinions expressed by our writers, and we encourage and appreciate different points of view. Our intention at Shameless is to foster community and to maintain a safe and positive blogging environment; we do not consider it our duty to give a voice to anybody with an opinion.
Discussion on this site is moderated. We will delete comments that:
(We get to decide what's discriminatory, hateful, attacking, or inflammatory).
In some cases, we will cap off comments on a discussion when we feel they are spiralling out of control and fostering an unwelcoming space for bloggers and readers. Comments will be closed by the Web Editor, unless the post is by the Web Editor, in which case the Editor in Chief will close them.
If your comments repeatedly make the same point, they may be deleted. This also applies to comments made by multiple members of the same organization.
Your comments should be about the topic of the post, not its writer—although we certainly encourage praise for our writers, if you want to say something nice.