[petesergeant]

I feel like it’s only good by collective agreement rather than any underlying merit. I wonder how many people would like it if they were told it was an idea a junior PM had put together as a holding pattern for a never-released Google product. Would it get the same level of adoration?

[blazers777]

back in the day, during a talk about Westinghouse, we were all admiring Rand's striking and iconic Westinghouse Logo, the theory and precision behind it.

A little boy pointed at it and said "That logo is dumb."

And it was at that instant that we all suddenly realized that it was a pretty bad logo. We moved on to the next topic quickly after that.

[petesergeant]

I feel like the difference between art and design is that you shouldn't need to know any of the back story for design, it should just look right, even if the lay person can't quite tell you why it looks right. Nobody needs the backstory on the Nike tick. You don't need to be told that the lines on the FedEx logo are beautifully balanced.

[adastra22]

> You don't need to be told that the lines on the FedEx logo are beautifully balanced.

What lines?

[CamperBob2]

The ones that form the embedded arrow.

[adastra22]

Never understood the hype around that.

[gwern]

Because it looks like a little chess king, instead of anything to do with Westinghouse or electronics?

[slater]

Well, if a little boy said it, might as well agree with him!