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kapai · Joined: 05 Jan 2007 Posts: 139 Location: New Zealand

It is driving me round the bend, sometimes it spirals out sometimes it spirals in. To be in this game I am probably already half way round the bend anyway.

cjs56 · Joined: 06 Jul 2005 Posts: 7

ive forgotten what the new one looks like and only just noticed the new one now you mentioned it , so maybe logo isn;t that noticeable anyway.

the lettering is good but not sure about the green swirls, what was it like before?

cjs56 · Joined: 06 Jul 2005 Posts: 7

just found the old logo and i prefer the camera and film roll logo better

filipeb · Joined: 01 Mar 2006 Posts: 864 Location: Algarve - Portugal

markbeckwith · Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 9:21 am

I feel the green device incorporates both photographic and design elements submitted by us submitters. I thinks it's a move in the right direction and I prefer it to the older one.

jacqueskloppers · Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 9:27 am

It's rubbish.

The entire office here (7+ creatives) unanimously agree. Amateurish at best. And we've just seen it in print (Computer Arts - Summer 2008) where the non-'concentric' circles and gawd-awful kerning are even more strikingly apparent than above.

What do you think a prospective new subscriber is going to assume about SS when seeing that ad? Rubbish logo = rubbish stock.

SS, please either bring back the old logo, or get a trained designer to tidy this one up. Better yet - Let us, your 'captive' design base, compete to design one that we think better describes what goes on here.

ziguru · Joined: 10 Aug 2005 Posts: 105 Location: London

makes me think of a washing machine or tumble dryer control panel... for a company specialising in images, this is a very bad move - it says "we don't understand design and don't care what you think"... designers will be put off as this kind of circles design will definitely be seen for what it is - a bland overused unimaginative cliche... then again, perhaps it won't make any difference, who knows... this reminds me - i better get my washing done...

photobunny · Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 10:30 am

neleha · Joined: 01 Jun 2005 Posts: 189

Wow! This thread is actually getting quite long. :) When I first looked at the new logo, I couldn't really remember what the old one looked like. I just think, it doesn't really matter to me what the logo looks like, as long as it works for SS and helps them in bringing new customers (who will buy all of my images!) :)

koki · Joined: 04 Mar 2006 Posts: 282 Location: Skopje, Macedonia

they started to replace the old logo(watermark) on the images with the new one! ... don't like it... :(

tvphoto · Joined: 08 Dec 2004 Posts: 613 Location: Oregon

Bring it back! Please!

Or else at least explain the change. Copyright infringement lawsuit? Trying to reflect the 'new' subscriptions?
Why not just add more colors?

lot · Joined: 29 Dec 2006 Posts: 134 Location: Munich

Well, come on, most of you prefer the old logo to the new one!? The new one may be not perfect and the lettering, well, may be discussed. But it is *lightyears* - and I mean this - better, much more fresh and open, than the dark, framed by black, closed, unimaginative and very, very early 90ies old logo. This is so unbelieveably much better. Again, better may not necessarily mean good, but that only time will tell. Most of the logos that now are considered eternal classics were hated by people first. Yet you can't say if people will say "ah, the soooo end 2000ish loogo" or refer to it as a timeless classic that still looks fresh after all those decades. So that is understood as well.

ziguru · Joined: 10 Aug 2005 Posts: 105 Location: London

oh, please - how new can one of the most overused cliches be???

did you not look at:

http://www.splorp.com/critique/

aelius · Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 12:32 pm

i liked the old one better

kluzz · Joined: 12 Oct 2005 Posts: 289 Location: NY/CT, USA