July 11, 2008

  • Serious Numbers, continued:

    AND MORE LOGOS:

    "Serious numbers will
    always be heard."
    -- Paul Simon  

    http://www.log24.com/log/pix08/080711-DowLg.jpg

    http://www.log24.com/log/pix08/080711-NYSE.jpg

    http://www.log24.com/log/pix08/080711-HSBClogo.jpg

    The HSBC Logo Designer --

    Henry Steiner

    He
    is an internationally recognized corporate identity consultant. Based
    in Hong Kong, his work for clients such as HongkongBank, IBM and
    Unilever is a major influence in Pacific Rim design.

    Born in Austria and raised in New York, Steiner was educated
    at Yale under Paul Rand and attended the Sorbonne as a Fulbright
    Fellow. He is a past President of Alliance Graphique Internationale.
    Other professional affiliations include the American Institute of
    Graphic Arts, Chartered Society of Designers, Design Austria, and the
    New York Art Directors' Club.

    His Cross-Cultural Design: Communicating in the Global
    Marketplace     was published by Thames and Hudson (1995).

    -- Yaneff.com

    Related material

    from the past     --

    Wittgenstein and Fly from Fly-Bottle

    Fly from Fly Bottle:

    Graphic structures from Diamond Theory and from Kyocera logo

    Charles Taylor,
    "Epiphanies of Modernism,"
    Chapter 24 of Sources of the Self
      (Cambridge U. Press, 1989, p. 477) --

    "... the object sets up
     a kind of frame or
    space or field
       within which there can be epiphany."

    Related material
    from today --

    Escape from a
      cartoon graveyard:

    http://www.log24.com/log/pix08/080711-BabyBlues.jpg