Amiga boing logo is -cool or not- ?

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Looking at Cyberus' sig I gather he is from the UK.  I don't know wbout the rest of the UK, but where I'm from, saying that something (inanimate object) looks or is gay is slang for well naff, rubbish, etc. I don't think it is supposed to be offensive in any way.

Anyway, the logo is crap and is a total nightmare to do anything with artistically or graphically.  The MOS butterfly is similarly bad, but at least has more possibilites and also importantly has a recognisable outline.

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Kees wrote:
the best logos are the simple ones ...

Take alook at McDonalds or Nike ...

I think the boing ball is a simple logo also ... and therefor a good one ...

And i happen to like it .. better then the V logo ..
 :-)

It's not quite simple enough as it has to be 3D to work properly.  The McD and Nike logos can be recongnised by outline alone which makes them more flexible.  Because the MOS logo is a butterfly (a recognisable shape) it has more potential.

For example....



I think amiga's best asset design-wise is the semi-serif word logo, it's unique and simple. The AmigaOne/Developer logo is also good, and I also like what the compitition winners done with the gear/cog/boingball concept, that was very nice.

There needs to be an injection of fresh design ideas.

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takemehomegrandma wrote:

 And which logo you saw also depended on in which part of the world you lived in. Have you seen the "Amiga" text on the boxes of the A500's Redrumloa sold? Not much semi-serif there ...

Those A500s were pre-semiserif era, the semiserif was commissioned by Escom.  If you want a design that 99.999% of all Amiga users recognise then go for the embossed Italic "Amiga" that was stamped on every model ever made.

(BTW, has that butterfly problems with gas? ;-))

Nah it's just rocket propelled :-D

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@DonnyEMU

This thread is no way related to anyone's sexual orientation.  The use of the word gay in this case has some different meaning, just as gay orginally meant "happy" and was then also used to mean Homosexuality.  It's just a quirk of english language in a certain part of the world.

It's not like those idiots who tried to make out that Teletubbies promoted homosexuality.