Today, March 8th, is International Women's Day. Google has reimagined its iconic logo into a piece celebrating the big day. To honor the holiday, as HuffPo notes, "Google created a simple, colorful doodle which transforms the 'G' into a female gender symbol, the second 'O' into a yellow flower and replaces the logo's regular blue with purple." (What, no ponies?)
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Results tagged “signage”
International Women's Day 2012 Honored By Google Logo, Grand Hyatt Protest
Ellis Brooks Chevrolet Sign Dismantled
Work on dismantling the semi-iconic Ellis Brooks Chevrolet sign at 1395 Van Ness began over the weekend. Erected in 1955, the sign, according to the people SFist spoke to at Ellis-Brooks, "will have to be destroyed."
1920s Sign Exposed During Third Street Demolition in S.F.
During demolition to expand the Bayview library on Third Street, a 1920s sign for Boss of the Road work clothes was exposed. "The sign dates from before 1921, based on San Francisco Assessor's records for the demolished building," reports photographer David Gallagher. "Here's a 1928 shot of the street from the Jesse Brown Cook Collection at UC Berkeley's Bancroft Library."
Starbucks Explains New Logo
If your entire world has been thrown off axis over Starbucks new logo, fear not, loyal patrons. The coffee mammoth will walk you through the change in a minute and a half long video on their website. The new logo is pretty much their old logo, sans their name around it. The mermaid, thankfully, is still intact. Ta-da. But what say you, yes or no? Do you approve?
Signs of San Francisco
Here's another set of local signage that photogs captured in all of their clever, weathered, colorful, informative and matter-of-fact glory. Enjoy.
Muni's 2008 APTA Rail Scandal: Not Actually All That Scandalous
So, no doubt you've noticed that your Muni buses are a bit more chipper than usual, with a friendly message scrolling across the head signs. Some folks have been grumbling to us about the greeting -- "isn't the destination sign for, you know, DESTINATIONS," that kind of thing. Meh. We guess. Probably.
More Old Signage Uncovered
Once again, someone tore down a bitch of a wall and discovered even more old-time signage. (First bacon, now bourbon? What in heaven's name went on in this city back then?) This time it was uncovered in Noe Valley while renovation of a building at 25th and Church was underway. And once again, we hope someone puts a window where it ought to be.
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