Last week, I posted a review of today’s most popular logos of Todder TV and analyzed them in the areas of design, emotion and representation. I then boldly declared the winner, loser and honorable mention (at least in my own mind) of each of these categories and overall.
Earlier today, I had the distinct honor of showing a 2-year old and a 4-year old - a true representation of the target Toddler TV audience - the logos I chose for that original post. They excitedly identified, like most kids would, most of the logos with energetic chatter about the characters and storylines.
But then they pointed to three of the logos and asked one, innocent question:
What are these?
Much to their confusion and my pride, they were asking about
The Backyardigans - voted worst in Emotion
Dragon Tales - voted worst in Design
Higglytown Heroes - voted worst in Representation and Overall
I gave them both a lollipop, a high-five and my business card. “...
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Thought of the Day - The Work/Life RunaroundFrom: spectorbrain.com
Post Date: 2006-08-22 09:23:24
Because we don’t know what is really important to us, everything seems important.
Because everything seems important, we have to do everything.
Other people, unfortunately, see us doing everything, so they expect us to do everything.
Doing everything keeps us so busy, we don’t have time to think about what is really important to us.
- Anonymous
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more A closer look at the Binoculars Site Preview of Ask.comFrom: spectorbrain.com
Post Date: 2006-08-13 13:40:23
Competition among search engines to “deliver fast and relevant information” is fierce. Companies such as Google, MSN, Yahoo, Lycos, etc. are in a frenzy to grab your loyalty (and your homepage) by shoving down your throat the power of their search algorithms, uniqueness of their results layout and innovativeness of their added features.
When Ask.com reinvented itself in February of 2006 - most visibly with the retirement of Jeeves - they introduced new technologies an...
more 50 posts and a pile of thanksFrom: spectorbrain.com
Post Date: 2006-08-11 13:10:00
It seems like just yesterday that I started this blog I called “Spectorbrain”. It all began about 4 months ago.
[cue the daydreaming music and fuzzy transitions]
One day, I think it was a Tuesday, I was innocently avoiding work with some Jib Jab animations on-line when I was interrupted by some energetic ramblings. I turned around to see someone who just seemed to appear out of thin air. Due to his fast-talking and multiple digressions, I didn’t quite understand eve...
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