[jlgreco]

This logo doesn't look unfamiliar. It looks too familiar. It looks like something that belongs on a powerpoint presentation in the 90s.

[bcoates]

The second thing I thought after "loading..." was that it's a cross between the 80s United artists logo and the ugly two-color late 60s MGM lion:

it looks dated but not so dated as to be classy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:UnitedArtistsLogo1980s.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MGM_logo_used_in_the_movie...

[colmvp]

Hardly.

Fact is most people expect certain visuals from academia.

[jlgreco]

It hardly looks like that to me? I beg to differ, it most certainly looks like that to me.

Do you expect me to pretend that I don't think that just because I am not a designer?