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The Intel Years and the annoyance of Yahoo! Controlling Flickr

I‘m finally back to work on few of my favorite things:
logotypes, corporations and research.

As I said in the Previous post I started making a searchable database of logos. I’m adding the different logos, and also trying to do it by groups.

While researching on the Intel Corporation I found that there are a lot of logos for their brands which have big similarities with small changes. So the decision (with the help of my girlfriend) came to make a small poster with all of Intel’s logos.

The poster consists of Intel’s branded logos from the 286 processor appeared in 1982 up to the latest rebranding of their corporate logotype and processors marks. The new logotype mashes Intel’s’ name with the much known “Intel Inside” mark. The rebranding occurred as Intel released Viiv (for entertainment and media PCs) and Core Duo (which is now inside Apple’s new MacBook Pro).

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News: Soon I’ll need to move Logophile Compendium from Flickr.

I thought it will be easier with them but YAHOO! Are making it hard. Today Flickr introduced something called Community Guidelines and they have a list of DOs and DON’Ts…
So – Pages that have not enough pictures are not aloud (meaning: no diagrams, no paintings or illustrations) and because Logophile consists of uploaded images which are not mine, they banned my site from their Search section.

It is still possible to get there in a direct link, but it won’t be shown for people from the main page.

So now, for this reason and others, I’m scouting for another system to hold my database.

Logophile Compendium

My next web installment is now online, and again – thanks to Flickr.
The new research I have started is an implementation of an idea that I had for quite some time.

Since I started doing Corporate Connection in 2003 I had this idea in my head: How can I search for certain logos and symbols based on thier shapes or colours? How can I know which are the logos that have an orange circle and a blue line? Or a wing?

I wanted to find these possible connections between
similar symbols, and now, with flickr, I can do it. By using their tagging option I can add all the information I want to a certain logo and make it searchable through their engine. Its easy and I couldn’t do it better myself, so I am doing it with them…

I’m collecting the logos and uploading them to a new Flickr account, which I opened especially for this purpose. In addition, I attached to the logos the information that Wikipedia has to offer when available.

I’m still uploading the logos of the most common brands, which will take some time. This is going to be an ongoing research and constantly expanding database. I plan to include the logos of the obscure and unknow brands as well.

I’m sure the results are going to be interesting. I hope you’ll enjoy them as well.

Corporate Connection is back online

After a long break Corporate Connection is back online. This time on my Flickr page and with the ability to add notes to it. It has been on my mind for some time to design a new, current, version of The Corporate Connection. Now, that Web 2.0 is with us, it might be feasible.

Corporate Connection started in my first year of studies, as a small project to find out which brands were doing animal testings. Slowly it developed into the intricate nature of corporations, brands, consumerisms and the connections between them in about six months of research . As it is constantly evolving and my research is always following the news trails of takeovers and acquisitions more updates are sure to come.

Sets added to Flickr

I added the production photo set of our Super 16mm film of ‘Dr Phallison’s Theatrics’. The film was made in June 2006 and was filmed in a secret place under the railway tracks of the olde Shoreditch station.

Other sets were updated as well.

Zohar Manor-Abel

Strategic Digital Producer