Trademarks and Symbols, Volume 2: Symbolical Designs (1973)(www.symbools.com)
26 pointsby NaOH3 days ago3 comments
  • quaddoggya day ago
    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.
  • yodona day ago
    Why would you put shared visual cursors on a site like this - so unbelievably distracting all these random people moving their cursors randomly.
    • 0x4ea day ago
      It can be turned off. You get a pop-up as soon as you open the site.

      I’m on the other side of this and I think this is a great social feature for websites.

      One thing the web currently lacks is multiplayer mode, and this is one way of doing it.

      It does make more sense to have something like this in sites where you can move things, and canvases, but I do think it would be nice to have this + a chatroom in websites. Some sort of “good old internet” feeling.

  • ryanwhitneya day ago
    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.

    • mistrial9a day ago
      by clicking into the collection, there is a single symbol screen that encourages the user to copy license info e.g.

      Mark 0762 from Trademarks & Symbols, Volume 2: Symbolical Designs, by Yasaburo Kuwayama. Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1973. Designer: Eelco Bos (Netherlands). Company: Hofdrukkerijen Arps & Zoon. Noncommercial use only. Trademark belongs to its owner.

      I agree that screen resolution is not print resolution. Many of the marks are designed for a low-res version too.. you are right and there is more to the discussion.. print application resolution is very well thought out, as you likely know well.

      • ryanwhitneya day ago
        It’s not a resolution issue. They’re the wrong shapes for the actual marks from the book.

        This is slop serving as someone’s resume project. It does a massive disservice to the art they’re pretending to showcase.