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Designing logos can be very difficult. When designing a logo you want it to stand out from the crowd yet still be really simple. Sometimes the designer is really clever and makes the logo very simple yet includes a hidden message within the logo that has deeper meaning. In this article we have 15 logos with hidden messages, some of which you will have heard of before and some maybe new to you but hopefully you will enjoy them all.
Amazon
The Amazon logo is an extremely simple logo and while the arrow may just look like a smile it actually points from a to z. This represents that Amazon sell everything from a to z and the smile on the customers face when they bought a product.
Baskin Robbins
The Baskin Robbins logo may look like it includes a simple BR above the name but if you take another look you will that it includes a pink number 31. This is a reference to the original 31 flavors.
Chick-fil-a
The Chick-fil-a logo incorporates a chicken into the C. Although this isn’t very hidden, it is still very clever.
Eighty20
The eighty20 logo is a bit of a geeky one to figure out, the two lines of squares represent a binary sequence with the blue squares being 1’s and the grey squares being 0’s. Which makes 1010000 which represents eighty and 0010100 which represents 20.
F1
The F1 logo is a fairly simple one to figure out. The negative space in the middle creates the 1.
Facebook Places
If you didn’t already know Facebook Places, is Facebooks new geolocational product. Which is in direct competition with the current leader in that area Foursquare. Now if you take another look at Facebook Places logo you will notice it is a 4 in a square now is this a coincidence or a dig at Foursquare?
Fedex
The FedEx logo look like a plain text based logo but if you take a second look between the E and the x you will see an arrows which represents the speed and accuracy of the companies deliveries.
Milwaukee Brewers
The old Milwaukee Brewers logo may look like a simple catchers mitt holding a ball, but if you take a second you will see the team’s initials M and B.
Museum of London
The Museum of London logo may look like a modern logo design but it actually represents the geographic area of london as it as grew over time.
NBC
The NBC logo has a hidden peacock above the above text which is looking to the right, this represents the companies motto to look forward and not back, and also that they are proud of the programs they broadcast.
Northwest Airlines
The old Northwest Airlines logo may look like a simple logo but if you take a closer look the symbol on the left actually represent both N and W and because it is enclosed within the circle it also represents a compass pointing northwest.
Piano Forest
The Piano Forest logo may look like a simple text logo with trees above it, but if you take another look you will see that the trees actually represent keys on a piano.
Toblerone
The Toblerone logo contains the image of a bear hidden in the Matterhorn mountain, which is where Toblerone originally came from.
Tostitos
The Tostitos logo includes two people sharing a chip and a bowl of salsa, this conveys an idea of people connecting with each other over a bowl of chips.
Treacy Shoes
The Treacy Shoes logo is very cute logo with a shoe hidden between the t and s.
About The Author
Thomas Hardy is a freelance web designer from Newcastle upon Tyne (UK), here is his portfolio. He founded Design-Heaven and Work-Killer, where he regularly blogs. You will also find him on Twitter and Facebook.
What’s Dropbox? It’s been one of my little secrets for a long time.
For me it’s a great way to sync folders across the various computers I work with or between others.
Did I mention it was FREE? I suggest it to all my clients so they can better share virtually anything!
File Sync:
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File Sharing:
Sharing files is simple and can be done with only a few clicks.
Online Backup:
Dropbox backs up your files online without you having to think about it.
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A copy of your files are stored on Dropbox’s secure servers. This lets you access them from any computer or mobile device.
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Setup dropbox for yourself and let me know what you think.
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musc
- Imablog
- Ray's Blog - Insights to MUSC
- (title unknown)
- Delicious/captkazim
- Videos uploaded by musclibrary
- MUSC Anatomy Wiki - Recent changes [en]
- MUSC Library Newsletter
- MUSC Library Wiki - Recent changes [en]
- Jünk's Blog
- The Real LC
- The Real LC
- Maya's Blog for Academic Libraries
- David Allen Hay II October 2, 2007
- SCTR - South Carolina Clinical and Translational Institute
- hohsc - Twitter Search
- Twitter / MUSChealth
- Twitter / MUSCkids
- Twitter / justinalicmann
- Twitter / musclibrary
- MUSC Broadcast Messages
- Broadcast Messages
- MUSC Events Calendar
- Satya's blog
- MUSC | The Catalyst
The internet is constantly, relentlessly public. Post something and it's there, for everyone, all the time.
Acar has come up with a clever idea, a small idea that makes things just a little protected. Trick.ly is a url shortener with a twist. You can share a URL but hide it behind a question that only insiders can easily answer.
So, for example, you could tweet, "Here's the source for my world-class chili: http://trick.ly/2L5". Anyone can go there, but only people who can figure out the clue can discover the site you were pointing to.
It's not secure. It's sort of private. Neato.
Robert Bookman from the restaurant industry was quoted as saying that it would violate the free speech rights of restaurant owners if they had to post a health department grade of their cleanliness in the window.
More and more, businesses and businesspeople talk about their rights.
It seems, though, that organizations and individuals that focus more on their responsibilities and less on their rights tend to outperform.
You're responsible to your community, to your customers, to your employees and to your art. Serve them and the rights thing tends to take care of itself.
Another thought: If I worked at Pepsi, I'd be actively lobbying for the obesity sweet soda tax (a penny an ounce) being proposed in New York. Instead, in a no-surprise knee jerk reaction, almost everyone in the industry is lobbying like crazy to stop it. This is dumb marketing.
The benefit of a tax is that it affects you and your competitors at the same time, so you all benefit from doing the right thing, as opposed to having to compete against someone who doesn't care as much as you do.
Once people realize that excessive use of your product makes them sick and then die a long and painful death, it's probably time to stop lobbying and time to start doing something about it. This industry should stop thinking it is in the corn syrup delivery business (which brings nasty side effects along with it) and start focusing on delivering joy in a bottle. Lots of interesting ways to do that without giving up profits.
If your success depends on sickening the poorest and least educated portion of your customer base (and the ones that buy the most from you), it's time to redefine success.
For the last few weeks of my life from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., I have been working on my library's Tech Fair. We did one last year, mostly focusing on Digital-e, our program in which students and faculty can check out items such as Amazon Kindles and Flip video cameras. This year, we decided to go all out and invited vendors to the event. We also opened it up to staff and other area colleges to present what they are doing with technology.
