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    Posts Tagged ‘funny’

    18

    Dec

    2008

    Famous Logos Revised: Fortune 500 Sans Fortune

    Downward design, or what happens when the corporate glass is half-empty.

    We’re going down. Just listen to the media, the politicians, the self-proclaimed experts — we’re bombarded with messages of economic apocalypse. And it seems like it’s not just little guy taking the hit. So what happens to the biggest logs that stoke the fire of capitalism, the world’s most powerful and recognized brands, at a time of indisputable recession?

    According a yet-to-be-tracked down designer, by way of a good friend of ours, here’s what happens.

    The images were emailed to us by a friend who found them on a random Istanbul-based student Yahoo group. But we’re bent on giving proper credit to this piece of genius, so stay tuned for updates.

    Meanwhile, we thought we’d add one — perhaps THE sign-of-the-apocalypse one — of our own, and leave you with that:


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    16

    Dec

    2008

    In other news…

    We interrupt this program to bring you an utterly off-topic, yet utterly amusing message: