This title should be changed to "Smudge Synthesis". Move along nothing to see here. Actually the dataset of 600k logos is probably interesting. I bet someone who had some time could do a hugely better job.
I found interesting the identification of different clusters. Now do some learning over the clusters. Letter cut out from colored shape seems to be the most prominent feature, and the most boring one. But some of the shapes (without cut-outs) are rather interesting. Some of the figures from he article could become icons themselves, reminiscent of scientific plots (cf. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Un...).
The problem is, a logo should be as unique as possible, so mechanical derivatives aren't convincing
The problem is, a logo should be as unique as possible, so mechanical derivatives aren't convincing