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Web 2.0 logo redesign experiment
Web 2.0 has its very own special look and feel to its design, and especially its logo designs. A smooth glassy look, with brighter colors are often the easiest ways at identifying these W2 companies.
The design forum Yayhorray, has a smooth thread on right now, with members tag teaming logo redesigns of famous brands, conforming to the standard Web 2.0 style. They have done everything from Adobe and Apple, to Harley Davidson, Microsoft, Google and Adidas.
This is a nice look at how we get caught up in fads and make everything look exactly the same. Nonetheless, I think this is a great little design experiment from everyone participating over at Yayhooray.
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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naser said 11:42AM on 7-26-2006
That really is a nice thing to do. I've always argued that the best way to describe the whole web 2.0 fad is with the "Glossy effect" its leaving behind. But most of my friends defined it with craps like "branding the web" and other talks like that (o'my). In my view web 2.0 is all about alterating,ajax and other things starting with "A".
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Andrew Mundy said 1:36PM on 7-26-2006
You know... icons like these more than likely would exsist if it wasnt for apple.
Innovating the "aqua" look for its os and its icons..
as well as the "wet floor" look, made famous by apple
they sure are purty tho
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Diddle said 2:12PM on 7-26-2006
LOL - there is some comedy / graphic genius in there. I especially like "Fourbuck Coffee" and the "Web2.0 - Shine on you shiny table" is hillarious.
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Kat said 11:35PM on 7-26-2006
I think the site's slashdotted right now.
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chemp said 7:35PM on 8-04-2006
Can you tell, what is Web 2.0?
its social bookmarking, skype, gmail...what is web 2.0?
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Logolept said 11:13PM on 8-17-2006
How does one create one of these cool web 2.0 designs? If I wanted to make the logo on www.wikihow.com more web 2.0'y, how would I do it?
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