Logo design is like abstract painting. The “painter” wants to symbolize a specific thing and he does it in his own way. Sometimes the symbols are understandable by anyone and sometimes it has to be explained to you. But sometimes the “painter” represents something that leads to misinterpretations. Here are some examples:

Arlington Pediatric Center:

And here is the building entrance:

And sometimes the combination of shapes is just not working…

Really not working…

[Updated on Nov. 26, 2007] This one must have been done on purpose.

But not only shapes can lead to misinterpretations, also the wrong association of words can have the same effect. Like…

If you find more examples like the ones above, just leave a comment with a link and I will make sure they will make it in the list.

Just few days ago a new IM client entered the market. It is called Instantbird, it’s working on Windows, Mac and Linux, it helps you connect to your different IM clients (AIM, Gadu-Gadu, Google Talk, ICQ, MSN, QQ, XMPP, Yahoo!) and it is based on the same tools used to create Firefox and Thunderbird. Instantbird will have the same customization possibilities as the Mozilla products. This tool is very young, being at version 0.1, but why not have great expectations?

Today I noticed that my Gmail account just got bigger. Just when I was about to fill it, Google doubled the space available. Now there is no need to make a second account or (God forbid) to delete any of my e-mails. Thank you Google (again).

The blogging activities started around 90’s. Before that people were used to a different tool that is still around us. The forums were a big hit till some yeas ago, even though forums are very hard to maintain, they are a good tool to gather information, get help, interact with the others. But people wanted something more personal, they wanted to share their thoughts, opinions, experiences with the others. The blog does that is a very personal way. Everyone can have its online journal, communicate with the others and get feedback from them. In the last few year people are doing this more and more. In 2005 there were around 8 million, today there are over 60 million blogs worldwide. Everyone is blogging. Maybe this is why I am doing it also…