I can't watch - tell me when it's over
Is this really the dying moans of the once-great AT&T? The San Francisco Chronicle is following up on earlier reports that - one can barely type the letters - SBC, née Southwestern Bell Corp., is in talks to buy up what's left of Ma Bell.
[http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/01/28/MNGGNB22251.DTL]
It's funny, AT&T came up in my job interview yesterday. The senior engineer came in for his part of the interview, and toward the end he pointed out that I was the only candidate with his own logo. He'd spend time puzzling out what it could mean. He had theories of surf waves and guitar strings, which - okay, isn't right on the mark, but, hey, the imagery fits.
Yes, water imagery plays heavily into my work, especially with my blue fetish. But essentially my logo is my own version of a classic EPCOT Center icon and a blantant homage to the AT&T logo, just a little more three-dimensional. I was totally smitten with the old EPCOT icons. Each of the attractions in Future World had one (or still may, for all I know). Even World Showcase had one, but as the gentleman pointed out in the interview, not the individual countries.
Eeenyway, besides Horizons, my favorite attraction at EPCOT Center was Spaceship Earth. In fact, I maintain that my hundreds of slow rides past videophones and supersleek network operations centers turned me toward my career in Silicon Valley. And guess what - a lot of it came true!
And throughout that time it was all brought to us by, first the Bell System, then shortly thereafter by AT&T. And it was the AT&T logo on the building, and all over the promo materials, that turned me on to the idea of logos to begin with. Something about that strange reflective ball.
The idea of Spaceship Earth sponsored by SBC makes me shudder. For the record, the SBC logo is drab and uninspiring and has a sphincter right in the middle of it.
I like GE a lot too. A lot of that has to do with Detroit and Ford and Edison and Disney associations, but I think a greatest chunk of it has to do with that perfect, voluptuous, round, swirly logo. If AT&T falls, at least there's one last round, moving logo to take comfort in.
I need to get out more. ;-)
[http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/01/28/MNGGNB22251.DTL]
It's funny, AT&T came up in my job interview yesterday. The senior engineer came in for his part of the interview, and toward the end he pointed out that I was the only candidate with his own logo. He'd spend time puzzling out what it could mean. He had theories of surf waves and guitar strings, which - okay, isn't right on the mark, but, hey, the imagery fits.
Yes, water imagery plays heavily into my work, especially with my blue fetish. But essentially my logo is my own version of a classic EPCOT Center icon and a blantant homage to the AT&T logo, just a little more three-dimensional. I was totally smitten with the old EPCOT icons. Each of the attractions in Future World had one (or still may, for all I know). Even World Showcase had one, but as the gentleman pointed out in the interview, not the individual countries.
Eeenyway, besides Horizons, my favorite attraction at EPCOT Center was Spaceship Earth. In fact, I maintain that my hundreds of slow rides past videophones and supersleek network operations centers turned me toward my career in Silicon Valley. And guess what - a lot of it came true!
And throughout that time it was all brought to us by, first the Bell System, then shortly thereafter by AT&T. And it was the AT&T logo on the building, and all over the promo materials, that turned me on to the idea of logos to begin with. Something about that strange reflective ball.
The idea of Spaceship Earth sponsored by SBC makes me shudder. For the record, the SBC logo is drab and uninspiring and has a sphincter right in the middle of it.
I like GE a lot too. A lot of that has to do with Detroit and Ford and Edison and Disney associations, but I think a greatest chunk of it has to do with that perfect, voluptuous, round, swirly logo. If AT&T falls, at least there's one last round, moving logo to take comfort in.
leave a response