LG used to be Goldstar I think, until they screwed up their brand name by building lousy quality products. It sort of makes sense why they'd want a cryptic smileyface instead :-D

close. Lucky Goldstar

I think LG came from a merger of Lucky and Goldstar. Goldstar used to make low quality products, I have never used a Lucky product. Then merged and rebranded under LG.

http://www.vb.com/lg.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG_Electronics

This was Microsoft's second logo: http://www.solarnavigator.net/sponsorship/sponsorship_images...

It was changed to what we see now because focus groups thought it read "Micr Soft." Design can bite you when you're not looking.