Posted by jason@kottke.org on under pepsi logo, billis, sime, time effort, back to the future, pepsi, coca cola, 10 years, decades, feelings, colors, logos | 
What do I think about the new Pepsi logo? Eh. Companies spend way too much time, effort, and money building up feelings about logos -- like decades and billions of dollars -- and then they just go and change it all. Of course the new logo and colors are similar to the old ones and it's variations on a theme but the new designs feel like someone's idea of what packaging is going to look like 10 years from now, an approach that never seems to work out well (see Back to the Future II). Coca-Cola had such success refreshing their brand with a simple take on their classic look and logo, why can't Pepsi do the same with this classic look?
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Posted by jason@kottke.org on under pepsi logo, billis, sime, time effort, back to the future, pepsi, coca cola, 10 years, decades, feelings, colors, logos |
What do I think about the new Pepsi logo? Eh. Companies spend way too much time, effort, and money building up feelings about logos -- like decades and billions of dollars -- and then they just go and change it all. Of course the new logo and colors are similar to the old ones and it's variations on a theme but the new designs feel like someone's idea of what packaging is going to look like 10 years from now, an approach that never seems to work out well (see Back to the Future II). Coca-Cola had such success refreshing their brand with a simple take on their classic look and logo, why can't Pepsi do the same with this classic look?
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link)
Tagi: pepsi logo, billis, sime, time effort, back to the future, pepsi, coca cola, 10 years, decades, feelings, colors, logos
Posted by on under mexican cartels, law enforcement officials, pot growers, digg, homegrown, seizures, marijuana, bottom line, farmers, decades, mom, mexico, united states |
Stiff competition from thousands of mom-and-pop marijuana farmers in the United States threatens the bottom line for powerful Mexican drug organizations in a way that decades of arrests and seizures have not, according to law enforcement officials and pot growers in the United States and Mexico.
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Posted by on under nuts and bolts, humanoid robot, upper torso, coue, voice commands, dance moves, acti, ups, counterparts, pals, panasic, knees, robots, nbsp, decades |
It's been a while since we've seen a humanoid robot this size do anything very new or interesting -- mostly they seem busy with their
slow-mo dance moves -- but the new ROPID bot by Tomotaka Takahashi, the man behind
Panasonic's Evolta bots, not only has a few new tricks up its plastic sleeves, but has personality to spare. The bot can rotate its upper torso, which seems to help immensely in keeping it balanced while jumping, running and skipping around. It's still the tried-and-true "bent knees" method of balance, but ROPID is "rapid" enough to make it look almost lifelike. The movements are expressive enough, but with some slightly articulated hands and a moving mouth, ROPID ups the adorable-ness factor over some of its nuts and bolts counterparts. ROPID can also respond to a few voice commands and speaks as well. Takahashi designed and built the bot himself, which makes us wonder what we've been doing with our lives that's so-very-important for the past couple of decades. Video of ROPID in action is after the break.
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Posted by on under world laugh, millis, simpsons, decades |
America's most famous dysfunctional cartoon family, The Simpsons, this week marks two decades of making the world laugh while offering alternative television therapy to millions of fans.
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