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Symbian Foundation: A brand that wants to share and talk

Anonymous Coward

I used to work for Symbian... 

Posted Monday 6th April 2009 13:05 GMT

Stop

...we got this kind of silliness all the time.

The world needs more action and less flim-flammery. If Symbian wants to stay ahead in a very competitive market, it needs to sort out Symbian C++, not spend their cash on re-/designing logos.

At least they saved some cash by employing drunken chavs off of an art degree.

Simon Ward

My eyes! My eyes! 

Posted Monday 6th April 2009 14:32 GMT

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Please, God, tell me that this is a late April Fool.

I've seen toddlers come up with better - all that's missing is a bit of bold Comic Sans and they'll have ticked all the 'how not to do it' boxes.

Simon Ward

Ooops ... in all fairness ... 

Posted Monday 6th April 2009 14:32 GMT

I missed the 'art therapy' bit - still doesn't excuse the logo being godawful though.

On the other hand, the 'fish with ear trumpet' and RoboDuck[tm] are works of genius.

Roger Williams

@Simon 

Posted Monday 6th April 2009 15:27 GMT

Happy

Then you'll love the 45 other pics at http://www.flickr.com/photos/symbianfoundation/ ...

Anonymous Coward

"Man crouching in a toilet pan with robotic arms" 

Posted Monday 6th April 2009 15:27 GMT

I quite like the Heath Robinson bits of it.

But my favourite is the "man crouching in a toilet pan with robotic arms":

(in the background of: ) http://www.flickr.com/photos/pinelife/3283717305/

Michael

I agree with Simon Ward 

Posted Monday 6th April 2009 15:27 GMT

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RoboDuck is awesome.

They should have that as their logo.

Simon Ward

Re: @Simon 

Posted Monday 6th April 2009 16:40 GMT

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"Then you'll love the 45 other pics at http://www.flickr.com/photos/symbianfoundation/ ..."

Some of those illustrations are incredibly cool. So much so that for the first time in nearly 15 years I have a desktop wallpaper which is predominantly white. In fact, the quality of the illustrations make the final choice of logo even more puzzling.

RoboDuck and Banana Machine FTW! :-)

Michael

Actually, the more I look at it 

Posted Monday 6th April 2009 16:40 GMT

the more I think of Honda adverts.

Anonymous Coward

Sharing! 

Posted Tuesday 7th April 2009 00:12 GMT

The only sharing I'm interested in here is the Symbian foundation sharing its drugs with me, because the stuff is obviously good.

Markie Dussard

Art Theft 

Posted Tuesday 7th April 2009 09:08 GMT

Happy

I used to work for Symbian too, and I felt just like the victim of a "chipmunck ontroller" (sic).

Somehow it doesn't surprise me that they raided an art therapy class for their ideas - probably the alma mater for some of their engineering managers (they too have learning difficulties). Still, I'm pretty sure they used to employ at least one or two people capable of spelling complex words like 'tentacle' and 'colander' correctly.

The rest were just substandard code monkeys who thought they were going to get rich from an IPO.