Why is the Logo for the City of Prince George Turning Up on Skateboard Clothes?
via Shawn Petriw on Facebook:
“I’m always amazed how artists working completely independently can create something so similar. It’s happened to me, and apparently, it’s happened to Slingshot. Add a dogwood on top and you’ve essentially got the City of Prince George logo.”
This is what he means. Here’s the logo for the City of Prince George side by side with the logo for Fenchurch, a skateboard-clothing company:
For those of you who don’t know (and I’m not surprised there would be those who don’t, since it’s impossible for me to find a link on this), the City of Prince George’s logo is a dogwood (British Columbia’s provincial flower) over top of an image that represents the coming together of the Nechako and Fraser Rivers. It’s pretty cool, actually, but vague enough that it can be interpreted in many different ways. For example, most people I ask think it’s a snowflake and some random lines. Slingshot, the company that created the Fenchurch logo describes their design thusly:
“After submitting many ideas and sketches for the Fenchurch logo, the arch design was conceived. There are many ideas behind the design, the first being that it comprises of two mirror images of the letter F. It has a very strong and solid feel and its architectural forms are vaguely reminiscent of the arches and stained glass windows found in churches and the main one being a graphic representation of the train tracks of Fenchurch Street Station.
The logo is in no way pictorial or literal and therefore does not limit the the products that the company produces, it has already experimented with shoes as well as clothing and offer many accessories that are not necessarily related to clothing. By creating a logo that was in a way anonymous it means that Fenchurch is not limited to the clothing market alone.”
But even Fenchurch is not alone. It seems Mr. Petriw brought the similarities of the two logos to the attention of the designers, who, according to Mr. Petriw’s Facebook page responded:
“Ah yeah, you know since I did that logo in 2000, I’ve seen several that are similar. Must be zeitgeist! Or maybe because it’s a form that can represent many things. The worst one for me was when I went to Paris two years later and walked past the 30 year old Les Quatre Temps mall, check it out: – thankfully that’s been knocked down now and they have a completely different logo.”
It’s a pretty interesting case study of a strong design being used to represent different things. Anybody else have records of similar motifs?
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- Day two of installing new floors: for Labour Day we face the smaller, but more challenging, hallway. #
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Finished laying hardwood floor. Had a nice dinner at my parents. Got home, around 10:30 realized ferret was missing, and would have been outside for at least the last five hours. Panic, put out kennels and treats, set out to put up missing posters, and see a cat down the street stalking something. Run, run, run, catch her, thank my lucky stars.
Next time we do renovations, she is staying in a cage.
Apparently, I’ve reached the end of Facebook…
links for 2010-09-03
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This is true.
Song's been in my head all day.
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The talk is about innovation, but I think this point can be applied in many areas:
"There are Chinese restaurants everywhere, but there is no Chinese restaurant chain. Yet, everyone knows what is a Chinese restaurant. They know what to expect, even though it'll be subtly different and the colors will be different and the name will be different. You know a Chinese restaurant when you see it. These people work with the Chinese restaurant model. Same principles, different applications and different settings. Not the McDonald's model. The McDonald's model scales. The Chinese restaurant model spreads."
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How to become the most hated band in the world: sample a car alarm or horns honking.
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This has been my pet peeve for quite a while now! Why would I read "Thru Drive" as "Drive Thru"?
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See the predicted effects of an oil spill in various coastal points in British Columbia based on weather and tide information.
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actually useful– if you happen to write about Foursquare and their ilk.
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Just… just, wow.
BIG WARNING: swears, and lots of them.
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Interesting idea. I've grappled with the question of whether I'm taking too many photos rather than just enjoying the moment myself over the last year of being a 'photographer.' Problem is, I'm no sketcher, either. But still, worth thinking about.
"I’ve substituted photograph making (like a smoker would use chewing gum) with a notebook and pens. Every time I feel the urge to take a photograph, I pull out my notebook and draw the scene. I’ve learned a lot more about the places I’ve been and, in every country I’ve traveled to, this method usually created a mob of children around us in any public park. These interactions have been some of the best cultural travel experiences I’ve had, beating any and all museums in the world."
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These are excellent arguments in favour of making a Facebook fan page for whatever it is you're organizing:
"- we’re all sick of email and often we all check Facebook more than email
- increased visibility as when friends “like” something, it shows up on newsfeeds
- on a commuter campus like Concordia club visibility is a challenge, even if we have an outrageously amazing poster, so do most other clubs here because we have access to dirt cheap colour printing, so this helps us be known at least to other Christians
- we could get a URL for free once we got enough likes (you only need 25). So we asked people to like our page and then secured our URL.
- it’s viewable without having a Facebook account for those non-conformist students" -
This is a good use of blogging.
"I had started to notice dogs waiting for their owners to come out of coffee shops and delis. I also noticed how individually each dog was responding to this brief separation. I felt compelled to document this contemporary urban phenomenon."
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this hurts my head
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oh, awesome
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I kind of wish he delved into what he thinks would be lost without anonymity more, but still worth grappling with.
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