Saturday, April 26, 2008

Clever design or accident?

Recently, I noticed that the FedEx logo has an arrow in it! (I've colored it in yellow below.) I wondered if it's an intentionally placed icon of movement.



But if it is, what the heck does the stubby spoon mean?

8 comments:

  1. I always assumed it was intentional, like the arrow in the "EXIT" signs in movie theaters.

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  2. The designers says the arrow was entirely purposeful. I'm not sure about the spoon, though.
    http://www.thesneeze.com/mt-archives/000273.php

    Now I can't see that logo without seeing it. Like when I read John Byrne said that Superman's "S" always looked like two golden fish.

    What's hidden in the H&S logo?

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  3. Interesting. Thanks for the link!

    (I assumed it was intentional, btw...)

    I think some people assume that the H&S has two sprockets in it. The first one is actually the top view of a halo.

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  4. How awesome is this? I totally did a similar write up on the Fedex spoon shortly after yours was posted. I had no idea anyone else had ever taken the time to write about it when I wrote my post.

    Strangely, my post is very similar to yours. In fact, I get some traffic to my site from google searches for "FedEx logo" and decided I would search for "fedex spoon". Your images showed up pretty high in that search.

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  5. Ha! I not surprised I'm not the only one who has seen it, Robert. I was waiting in line at the post office, standing behind a gentleman with the logo on back of his jacket, when I thought of it.

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  6. the spoon is for "fed", the past tense of "feed".

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  7. I think it's brilliant! I like the arrow cause somehow it signifies speed.

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