Re:Trademarks and Symbols, Volume 2: Symbolical Designs (1973)
by 0x4e on Monday November 02, 2026 @10:25PM
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It can be turned off. You get a pop-up as soon as you open the site.
I’m on the other side of this and I think this is a great social feature for websites.
One thing the web currently lacks is multiplayer mode, and this is one way of doing it.
It does make more sense to have something like this in sites where you can move things, and canvases, but I do think it would be nice to have this + a chatroom in websites. Some sort of “good old internet” feeling.
Re:Trademarks and Symbols, Volume 2: Symbolical Designs (1973)
by quaddoggy on Monday November 02, 2026 @09:01PM
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Very well organized and curated. Some of these symbols are quite…groovy. Looking through randomly it becomes clear how much variety we have lost in current branding and graphic design. The trend has been towards homogenization to the extent that you can't tell what anything is anymore. The Jaguar logo looks like a phone company. The Airbnb logo looks like a women's undergarment company. And every AI logo looks like a gaping butthole.
Re:Trademarks and Symbols, Volume 2: Symbolical Designs (1973)
by ryanwhitney on Monday November 02, 2026 @10:06PM
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It’s almost slanderous to the original designers to represent these approximations as the actual marks. LLMs are not up to the task of recreating them. (“Traces” seems disingenuous as well.)
The actual books are great to look through if your library stocks them.
Re:Trademarks and Symbols, Volume 2: Symbolical Designs (1973)
by mistrial9 on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @12:01AM
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by clicking into the collection, there is a single symbol screen that encourages the user to copy license info e.g.
Mark 0762 from Trademarks & Symbols, Volume 2: Symbolical Designs, by Yasaburo Kuwayama. Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1973. Designer: Eelco Bos (Netherlands). Company: Hofdrukkerijen Arps & Zoon. Noncommercial use only. Trademark belongs to its owner.
I agree that screen resolution is not print resolution. Many of the marks are designed for a low-res version too.. you are right and there is more to the discussion.. print application resolution is very well thought out, as you likely know well.
I’m on the other side of this and I think this is a great social feature for websites.
One thing the web currently lacks is multiplayer mode, and this is one way of doing it.
It does make more sense to have something like this in sites where you can move things, and canvases, but I do think it would be nice to have this + a chatroom in websites. Some sort of “good old internet” feeling.
The actual books are great to look through if your library stocks them.
Mark 0762 from Trademarks & Symbols, Volume 2: Symbolical Designs, by Yasaburo Kuwayama. Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1973. Designer: Eelco Bos (Netherlands). Company: Hofdrukkerijen Arps & Zoon. Noncommercial use only. Trademark belongs to its owner.
I agree that screen resolution is not print resolution. Many of the marks are designed for a low-res version too.. you are right and there is more to the discussion.. print application resolution is very well thought out, as you likely know well.
This is slop serving as someone’s resume project. It does a massive disservice to the art that they’re pretending to showcase.