Micro Persuasion: What Happens When Corporations Go 2.0?

Saturday, January 13, 2007

What Happens When Corporations Go 2.0?

This is great. Someone took a bunch of multinationals and converted their logos to a Web 2.0 style full of rounded corner goodness. (Several of these are Edelman clients)

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The VISA beta credit card sounds quite scary. But heck, I'll take anything with 2.0 on it. ;)

Posted by: Niko | Sunday, January 14, 2007 at 04:10 AM

interesting to see that the only UK company logo on there is the BBC. Indicative of how UK Plc. is quite a way beyhind the Web 2.0 trends I think.

Posted by: steve clayton | Sunday, January 14, 2007 at 11:55 AM

Is it sad that I think alot of these are an improvement?

Posted by: Pierre | Sunday, January 14, 2007 at 03:09 PM

Someone took a bunch of multinationals and converted their logos to a Web 2.0 style

It looks like it wasn't one person, rather, a group of people as per this thread linked from the Flickr page to which you point.

Posted by: eszter | Sunday, January 14, 2007 at 06:37 PM

Love that pic. Where did you get it?

Posted by: Justin | Monday, January 15, 2007 at 03:38 PM

Justin, on Flickr via digg.

Posted by: Steve Rubel | Monday, January 15, 2007 at 07:21 PM

Well, that just about does it, Web 2.0 is now officially dead; it can be expressed as a fashion statement requiring only rounded corners, saturated colours and a reflected, fading logo.

Actually, the upside down, fading reflection is probably the most accurate part of the statement.

Meanwhile, I think I'll start a sweep on which one will be the first to sue for breach of copyright.

Posted by: Earl Mardle | Tuesday, January 16, 2007 at 05:49 AM

Wow - wasn't this a meme last year?

Posted by: Jeremy Pepper | Tuesday, January 16, 2007 at 03:27 PM

Actually, it was a thread on a design community called Yayhooray. I remember this it was like almost 6 months ago. It wasn't only one designer that did these it was several people who contributed. Original thread here...
http://www.yayhooray.com/thread/90661/yh-collab:-redesign-famous-logos-in-web-2-0-format?page=1

Posted by: Ken Rossi | Tuesday, January 16, 2007 at 07:09 PM

Nice pick. Where in the world did you find it?

Dave

Posted by: Martial Arts Guy | Wednesday, January 17, 2007 at 12:57 PM

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