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IMO, for everybody apart from a few graphic designers, it's not drawing skill that limits accuracy of the Starbucks logo: it's that we never registered its exac
by theoh 9y ago
IMO, for everybody apart from a few graphic designers, it's not drawing skill that limits accuracy of the Starbucks logo: it's that we never registered its exact geometry in the first place. The ideas of Gestalt perception are frequently used in logo design, and one of them is the "binary" figure/ground relationship that the two colours of the Starbucks logo create. It's complex, and almost everyone just sees a "Gestalt" and doesn't parse the arrangement of parts. Somebody with drafting skills could easily draw it based on textual instructions, but definitely not accurately from memory without a more careful study of the logo than (almost) anyone ever undertakes.
- wruza 9y agoSome sketches are hard to draw even after minutes of watching. Without remembering "there is <n> <x>'s on <y> background with <z> outline ...", not many people can draw exactly what they've seen few seconds ago. Our perception and recalling works in very fuzzy way; you can be absolutely sure that logo is what you've drawn, but this is just false memory constructed by subconscious to fill the gaps. Our minds should contain fantastic amounts of these, retained and restructured there by side-effects of the thinking process.