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In a move worthy of Mike Judge's Silicon Valley, the Daily Mail reports that a startup company has picked an unfortunate logo. In summary:
- Logo unveiled to derision earlier this week
- Thousands took to Twitter to point out it looked like a vagina
- Firm is 'working cooperatively to address this issue' with tech firm Automation Anywhere which has similar logo
One commentator has a Not Safe For Work explanation for what the marketers were thinking.
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(Score: 2) by sl4shd0rk on Tuesday July 22 2014, @04:03PM
i wonder which company is going to adopt a pecker-shaped logo
(Score: 3, Informative) by Tramii on Tuesday July 22 2014, @04:18PM
It's already happened. https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/230/508971193_0b0c3234ae_z.jpg [staticflickr.com]
(It's from some martial arts studio near my house)
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Tuesday July 22 2014, @07:35PM
Oldsmobile used to have a "rocket" logo. For that matter all the classic space-ship designs don't make much sense (unless you worry about streamlining for something that's spends almost all it's life in a hard vacuum). OTOH, they did look like a V2, and for the V2 it does make sense. This is sort of a form follows function kind of thing. Anything that needs to penetrate a resistive medium will be shaped about the same. Look at dolphins and fish.
The thing is, people are predisposed to see certain images, and force anything relatively similar into the same category. They also favor familiar images. The result is that sometimes things that are only slightly similar still get forced into the same category.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by strattitarius on Tuesday July 22 2014, @09:15PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOQsvOkkLq4
br Joe G: well theres no way I can argue with that
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