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Trademarks and Symbols, Volume 2: Symbolical Designs (1973)

15 points • by NaOH • last Saturday at 6:50 PM • 4 comments • view on HN

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quaddoggy • today at 2:01 AM

Very well organized and curated. Some of these symbols are quite…groovy. Looking through randomly it becomes clear how much variety we have lost in current branding and graphic design. The trend has been towards homogenization to the extent that you can't tell what anything is anymore. The Jaguar logo looks like a phone company. The Airbnb logo looks like a women's undergarment company. And every AI logo looks like a gaping butthole.

yodon • today at 1:52 AM

Why would you put shared visual cursors on a site like this - so unbelievably distracting all these random people moving their cursors randomly.

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ryanwhitney • today at 3:06 AM

It’s somewhat slanderous to the original designers to represent these as the actual marks. LLMs are not up to the task of accurately recreating them.

The actual books are great to look through if your library stocks them.