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About Parallax Logo

markustermarkuster Posts: 184
edited 2012-08-31 12:08 in General Discussion
Hello:

Is the parallax logo a hat or a P ?

I am using Mozilla Firefox and I can see a P and some time
ago I saw the hat with the propeller.

Just to know if my browser is not working.

Mark.

Comments

  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    edited 2012-08-28 17:07
    The beanie is going away in favor of a stylized "P".

    -Phil
  • skylightskylight Posts: 1,915
    edited 2012-08-29 02:00
    Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) wrote: »
    The beanie is going away in favor of a stylized "P".

    -Phil
    Did the prop get it's name from the beanie hat? that relationship will be gone forever if so.
  • SRLMSRLM Posts: 5,045
    edited 2012-08-29 10:23
    skylight wrote: »
    Did the prop get it's name from the beanie hat? that relationship will be gone forever if so.

    I think it was the other way around. The beanie came from the name Propeller (which itself came from the hub access mechanism).
  • skylightskylight Posts: 1,915
    edited 2012-08-29 12:46
    What's the reasoning behind the change? Is it a case of image being more business like? Not forgetting that a big portion of the customers are hobbyists
  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    edited 2012-08-29 12:54
    I can't speak for Parallax, of course, but here's my take on it: Although volume purchasers (the ones who help fund this endeavor, BTW, so the rest of us can enjoy its fruits) might be put off by a beanie logo, thinking it unprofessional-looking, it's unlikely that hobbyists will be put off by the letter "P". It's simply a matter of calculating whatever has the greatest universal appeal without alienating any of the customer base.

    -Phil
  • skylightskylight Posts: 1,915
    edited 2012-08-29 12:57
    Ok, thought for a minute that Parallax was going all corporate on us (joking):lol:
  • Dave HeinDave Hein Posts: 6,347
    edited 2012-08-29 13:19
    markuster, I didn't understand your comment at first. I don't recall ever seeing a Parallax Logo, except for the way they display "Parallax Inc" with the overlapping letters and sideways INC. So I guess that is their logo. But then I realized you must be referring to the browser icon they use, which has changed from the prop beanie to "P". My browser had cached the beanie icon and I had to delete the browser history to see the new icon.
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2012-08-30 02:48
    How is the Propeller beanie logo any less professional than Google's android (Which is used by "professionals" a lot")?
    Or what about Tux the Linux penguin? Linux is used in a lot of serious "professional" applications.
    Or then RedHat's silly hat?
    Or a whole bunch of other examples you see every day.

    We want out Propeller hat back. At some point the product defines the logo not the other way around.

    (Except of course I bet there is someone out there ready to claim that the Prop beanie hat is their trade mark, because, say, they have been making and marketing such hats for decades. They perhaps have a bunch of lawyers ready waiting for when Parallax has enough money to be taken to the cleaners in court).
  • Jen J.Jen J. Posts: 649
    edited 2012-08-30 12:03
    Ah, the logo...perhaps I can help.

    Below is the official Parallax logo.
    It has changed a bit recently, the first "A" and the "R" no longer share a stem. It makes the logo a bit more legible without losing the feeling of the original.

    ParallaxLogo2012.png

    The logo is sometimes rendered in chrome and sometimes with a field of color behind it. The "P" logo which appears in the Favicon position on the Forums site is a small version of the "P" in our official logo.

    The beanie is a logo mark for the Propeller 1 microcontroller, not for Parallax as a company. The name Propeller came first, the beanie followed. The beanie logo will be phased out of certain areas going forward (already has in places), but I doubt it will ever fully disappear.

    Cheers, Jen J.
    ParallaxLogo2012.png
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  • mindrobotsmindrobots Posts: 6,506
    edited 2012-08-30 13:22
    I'd say the beanie will be around as long as someone gets to keep their Fozzie bear with Beanie avatar......and I hope that's a long, long time!!!! :lol:
  • skylightskylight Posts: 1,915
    edited 2012-08-30 14:27
    Just had a thought, would the prop on the beanie hat make it take off?
  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    edited 2012-08-30 17:27
    skyllight wrote:
    Just had a thought, would the prop on the beanie hat make it take off?
    That depends. Would the person wearing it be sitting on a runway rotating at the same rate as the propeller, but in the opposite direction? How about if they were wearing roller skates with encoders and frictionless bearings? (Assuming, of course, that the wheels were massless. 'Don't wanna get rotational inertia involved!) :)

    -Phil
  • doggiedocdoggiedoc Posts: 2,245
    edited 2012-08-30 17:30
    Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) wrote: »
    That depends. Would the person wearing it be sitting on a runway rotating at the same rate as the propeller, but in the opposite direction? How about if they were wearing roller skates with encoders and frictionless bearings? (Assuming, of course, that the wheels were massless. 'Don't wanna get rotational inertia involved!) :)

    -Phil
    Oh Phil. Please, no.
  • blittledblittled Posts: 681
    edited 2012-08-30 19:22
    When I was a kid my brother and I had beanie caps with a spring loaded propeller on it. When you pressed a button it would shoot the propeller staright up about 3 feet. Neither one of us tried sitting on a runway though :).
  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    edited 2012-08-30 19:35
    doggiedoc wrote:
    Oh Phil. Please, no.
    It's the voices in my head. Browser commands me to post these things. I cain't he'p m'se'f.

    -Phil
  • skylightskylight Posts: 1,915
    edited 2012-08-31 12:08
    doggiedoc wrote: »
    Oh Phil. Please, no.
    Hang on, I think Phil has an interesting and valid idea, It needs further investigation........:lol:
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