The evolution of tech companies' logos

Saturday 9 February 2008

Alex at Neatorama has a run-down of The Evolution of Tech Companies' Logos. It's fascinating to see the history, and to realize just how old some of these firms are. IBM used to sell meat slicers, and Nokia used to be a wood-pulp mill? I'm not sure Firefox yet deserves a place in the list, and why not include Hewlett-Packard?

tagged: design   /   via: Drawn!» 2 reactions

Comments

[gravatar]
Ben Atkin 10:09 AM on 9 Feb 2008

I don't think Firefox deserves a place among those other companies either, but it was interesting nonetheless. I didn't notice the change between the second one and the current one. I would also like to see a timeline of Hewlett Packard logos.

[gravatar]
Bob Congdon 3:00 AM on 11 Feb 2008

Yes, the Firefox logo seems out of place to me too.

Here's a good one: I found an Amazon receipt from 1997. It has the old Amazon logo on it. Does anyone remember what their logo looked like back then? This was before the distinctive smiley logo. See here. It was a stylized capital A with a river running through it.

Add a comment:

name
email
Ignore this:
not displayed and no spam.
Leave this empty:
www
 not searched.
 
Name and either email or www are required.
Don't put anything here:
Leave this empty:
URLs auto-link and some tags are allowed: <a><b><i><p><br><pre>.