Eighty-20 is “a niche consulting company that has created new and innovative ways to access South African and International Consumer data. Our main product is the Consumer Information Portal that enables clients to easily access relevant market research data.”
According to Fun on the Net, “People first guess that 20% of the squares are darkened, but that turns out to be false after counting them. The trick is to view the dark squares as 1′s and the light squares as 0′s. Then the top line reads 1010000 and the bottom line reads 0010100, which represent 80 and 20 in binary.”
[Source: Logo of the Day]
[When I first saw the logo, I didn't realize it was a South African firm...]
This might be the coolest logo ever.
I’m actually not sure how to pronounce the name, but the logo packs a punch.
The slogan reads, “When you recycle it becomes a resource.”
This is a pretty neat idea.
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Also, I’ll be gone all of next week, and probably dead the week after, but I have lots of photos from holiday club to post when I get the chance.
No stage diving:
Don’t play with matches:
Watch out for hazardous L’s left lying around:
Pick up after your dog:
Don’t shoot yourself:
I have met two people here who have the t-shirts with “Keep Austin Weird” on them.
“Keep Austin Weird” is the slogan of Austin Independent Business Alliance.
These awesome shirts can only be purchased in Austin, and both of the South Africans I’ve met/know who had these shirts purchased them in Austin, or had someone purchase them for them while in Austin.
However, if you have a problem with Austin being weird and/or you don’t like local small businesses, you have options:
You can attempt to Make Austin Normal.
Or, you can Keep Austin Corporate.
“Domo ([Japanese characters cut]) Domo-kun) is the mascot of Japan‘s NHK television station, appearing in several 30 second stop-motion sketches shown as station identification during shows. In 2006 his best friend Mibz, a talking hand, killed him.”
-Wikipedia
He is also very awesome.
“Domo-kun ([Japanese characters]) is a small brown open-mouthed monster hatched from an egg who lives with a wise old rabbit underground. He really, really likes TV and also enjoys rocking out to Guitar Wolf.”
You can also wear Domokun,
make a Domo box,
and even use him as your desktop background
At the end of 2008, Pepsi came out with new logo:
old logos:
new logo:
As I’m sure you can imagine (and google) this has caused quite a stir among the online community. To summarize, some people thought the change from wave to smile was genius. Others considered the change absolutely pointless and ugly.
This too caused expression of opinions. Most (everyone) thought the thing was bogus, pretentious, and just a way to make a logo sound impressive.
Personally? I think the smile is splendiferously genius. I like the plain cans with the simple sans-serif font. However, I agree that the off-centered words/logo/calorie count doesn’t work. The ‘si’ on the end is a little lost from the rounded ‘pep’.
What do you guys think?
2009_09_19 Update: I have turned comments off, because this is the post on which i get all my spam. If you have something to tell me, do it on a post not written eight months ago. Thanks.
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