Business Plus logo Thread poster: Daniel Frisano
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Daniel Frisano Italy Local time: 12:29 Member (2008) English to Italian + ...
Is it just me or the Business Plus member logo looks a lot like a grenade if you don't look closely? | | |
Tom in London United Kingdom Local time: 11:29 Member (2008) Italian to English
Daniel Frisano wrote: Is it just me or the Business Plus member logo looks a lot like a grenade if you don't look closely? Where is it? | | |
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Daniel Frisano wrote: Is it just me or the Business Plus member logo looks a lot like a grenade if you don't look closely? A hand grenade... or "bomba a mano" as we call it in Italian... | |
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Tom in London United Kingdom Local time: 11:29 Member (2008) Italian to English
Giovanni Guarnieri MITI, MIL wrote: Daniel Frisano wrote: Is it just me or the Business Plus member logo looks a lot like a grenade if you don't look closely? A hand grenade... or "bomba a mano" as we call it in Italian... No. My immediate perception is that it's the globe of the world. I suppose it all depends on what our visual associations are. | | |
"if you don't look closely"... | Jun 27, 2018 |
was the magic sentence... but I do agree that, if you look closely...
[Edited at 2018-06-27 11:56 GMT] | | |
Lingua 5B Bosnia and Herzegovina Local time: 12:29 Member (2009) English to Croatian + ...
The grenade has an oval egg-like shape and this logo has spherical shape like a Globe. Btw, I can't believe someone started a thread about this. | | |
Tom in London United Kingdom Local time: 11:29 Member (2008) Italian to English No matter how closely | Jun 27, 2018 |
Giovanni Guarnieri MITI, MIL wrote: was the magic sentence... but I do agree that, if you look closely... [Edited at 2018-06-27 11:56 GMT] If you're never seen or held a hand grenade then you would not have that association - no matter how closely you look. Anyway the point about a logo is that you don't look closely. Logos are about instant recognition. How closely, or for how long, do you need to look at this logo to realise it's a "correct" tick?
[Edited at 2018-06-27 12:04 GMT] | |
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Looks like... | Jun 27, 2018 |
Tom in London wrote: How closely, or for how long, do you need to look at this logo to realise it's a "correct" tick? [Edited at 2018-06-27 12:04 GMT] a fishing hook to me... | | |
The 2nd logo | Jun 27, 2018 |
reminds me of René Magritte's painting (The Treachery of Images) or left half of Poirot's mustache
[Edited at 2018-06-27 13:36 GMT] | | |
Tom in London United Kingdom Local time: 11:29 Member (2008) Italian to English
And of course you'll instantly recognise this as a scented candle: | | |
Lingua 5B Bosnia and Herzegovina Local time: 12:29 Member (2009) English to Croatian + ... Looks like a bird. | Jun 27, 2018 |
Giovanni Guarnieri MITI, MIL wrote: Tom in London wrote: How closely, or for how long, do you need to look at this logo to realise it's a "correct" tick? [Edited at 2018-06-27 12:04 GMT] a fishing hook to me... If you rotate it by 45 degrees to the right it looks like a bird with sharp peak and sharp tail. | |
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The perfect slogan to go with the grenade... | Jun 27, 2018 |
"... 'cause Business membership iz da Bomb!" | | |
Jack Doughty United Kingdom Local time: 11:29 Russian to English + ... In memoriam
The type of grenade we are talking about is the Mills bomb, used by the British Army in the Second World War. We've seen several other images, so I think we ought to see this one. Yes, it is oval, not round, but there is a superficial resemblance. Another business slogan could be the version of the Dwarf Song from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs which goes: "Heigh-ho, heigh-ho, it's off to work we go, With a bucket and spade and a hand grenade, Heigh-ho, Heigh-ho heigh-ho heigh-ho."
[Edited at 2018-06-28 06:04 GMT] | | |