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What of those platitudes makes you feel victimized?

• Dig1t 4y ago
  I do not personally feel victimized, the shitty logo is the victim. The point is that a redesign wasn't necessary, it was a good logo with a long and interesting history. But it was redone to signal that they are falling in line with the prevailing ideology of the day.
  • systemicdanna 4y ago
    My guess is that there are many reasons to redesign a logo like that. It looks: 1. Elitist (who speaks Latin?) 2. Forgettable (show this logo to a student from India and then ask to pick it out of 10 similar coats of arms) 3. Ugly (subjective, but... thick curves everywhere, all caps words with hyphens, 3 crowns?..) 4. Hard to adapt to new global use cases (too detailed to make small, too confusing internationally) 5. many more reasons...
    • Dig1t 4y ago
      Those are indeed valid reasons, but they literally stated exactly why they changed it: "to signal commitments to (1) digital transformation and (2) diversity & inclusion". That quote comes directly from the people who changed the logo themselves.
      • systemicdanna 4y ago
        The sensitivities of the modern world require careful phrasing. My guess would be that "diversity & inclusion" means things like it's too elitist, hard to grok to people in new global markets, and the "digital transformation" bit means that it's too hard to resize and too hard to reuse in different context (e.g. the new logo could zoom in on screen and act as a portal into a virtual experience, the old logo is very cumbersome).