Comments on: “Originality, what is it?”: has this title been used…maybe http://www.10e20.com/blog/2007/03/27/originality-what-is-it-has-this-title-been-usedmaybe/ Social Media Marketing Sun, 14 Mar 2010 23:47:39 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Patrick Winfield http://www.10e20.com/blog/2007/03/27/originality-what-is-it-has-this-title-been-usedmaybe/comment-page-1/#comment-18303 Patrick Winfield Wed, 28 Mar 2007 13:56:50 +0000 http://www.10e20.com/2007/03/27/originality-what-is-it-has-this-title-been-usedmaybe/#comment-18303 Thanks Jake- glad you enjoyed the post. Color, as you know, yields very different emotional reactions for various people for cultural reasons or personal. Google may have had a motive in making the logo 4 colors the way they did, but most likely it was different from the rest at the time. I also read that Page likes Lego's a lot. Check this out, back in 1998, it looks like the didn't have a professional redesign of the logo till much later: http://web.archive.org/web/19981202230410/http://www.google.com/ You may want to visit this digg thread: http://www.digg.com/tech_news/Is_there_any_mathematical_logic_behind_the_Google_logo_ We can over think anything or take it as 'it just looks good', yes but why? ;) Thanks for the questions. Thanks Jake- glad you enjoyed the post.

Color, as you know, yields very different emotional reactions for various people for cultural reasons or personal. Google may have had a motive in making the logo 4 colors the way they did, but most likely it was different from the rest at the time. I also read that Page likes Lego’s a lot.

Check this out, back in 1998, it looks like the didn’t have a professional redesign of the logo till much later: http://web.archive.org/web/19981202230410/http://www.google.com/

You may want to visit this digg thread: http://www.digg.com/tech_news/Is_there_any_mathematical_logic_behind_the_Google_logo_

We can over think anything or take it as ‘it just looks good’, yes but why? ;)

Thanks for the questions.

]]> By: Jake Matthews http://www.10e20.com/blog/2007/03/27/originality-what-is-it-has-this-title-been-usedmaybe/comment-page-1/#comment-18092 Jake Matthews Wed, 28 Mar 2007 00:19:12 +0000 http://www.10e20.com/2007/03/27/originality-what-is-it-has-this-title-been-usedmaybe/#comment-18092 very interesting take. Thanks for pointing Kieth Robinson's Flikr post. I would like to measure how many of the new web 2.0 logos shown above share the colors of Google's logo. So how popular in logos are the following colors. Blue Red Yellow (GOLD!) Green And, what emotions do web users associate with these colors since they see them so much every time they Google search. very interesting take. Thanks for pointing Kieth Robinson’s Flikr post.

I would like to measure how many of the new web 2.0 logos shown above share the colors of Google’s logo.

So how popular in logos are the following colors.

Blue
Red
Yellow (GOLD!)
Green

And, what emotions do web users associate with these colors since they see them so much every time they Google search.

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