Test 5
Adobe hasn’t missed a trick with their new logo for Photoshop. Let’s see… it’s a P for Photoshop, it’s a speech bubble and it’s an Apple Aqua interface button. It’s also carved rendered from the hardest plastic in the virtual world and refracts like a diamond. It’s reminiscent of the PBS logo, The Open University and half of E.T.’s head (?).
Unfortunately all this consideration has been a waste of time. Reading some of the 90+ comments on the blog of Adobe Photoshop’s Senior Product Manager, John Nack, there seems to be universal hatred for it:
“Um. Yeah. You know, the Dude abides and all that, but…that icon is poop. Plain, fly-drawing, stinking poop. And the flurry of trademark/registered symbols on it really does a lot to emphasize the poopitude. They should change the name to iPhotoshopChat™©® and throw in some pinstripes and an IM client to make the image complete. Cripes, to think this is the product of the company that actually develops Photoshop. Wow. Boil my eyes now, please.”
Um, boil mine too. Can anyone defend it?
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