{"id":1684,"date":"2008-01-11T07:29:40","date_gmt":"2008-01-11T07:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2008\/01\/11\/copiers\/"},"modified":"2008-01-11T07:29:40","modified_gmt":"2008-01-11T07:29:40","slug":"copiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2008\/01\/11\/copiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Copiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/01\/07\/business\/07cnd-adco.html\"  title=\"Press release-ified article in the Times\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"New Xerox logo\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/img\/xerox_logo.gif\" width=\"234\" height=\"90\"  align=\"right\"\/><\/a><strong>Like many others, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.underconsideration.com\/brandnew\/archives\/xerox_the_very_very_very_shiny.php\"  title=\"from Brand New, the brand blog\">it seems<\/a>,<\/strong> I\u2019m not wild about the new logo that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.interbrand.com\/portfolio_details.asp?portfolio=3096&#038;language=ID\"  title=\"Interbrand's justification of the whole mess\">Interbrand<\/a> has trotted out for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xerox.com\/\"  title=\"With a name that good, who needs a logo anyway?\">Xerox<\/a>. I think the typography is pretty nice, but hate hate hate the clunky, overdone, and seemingly pointless and trendy (in the really bad way) ball sitting there on the end. Even worse, it seems as if the whole marble-like thing is just a bad rip-off of the slightly goofy but certainly more dramatic flag of the former Soviet republic of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kyrgyzstan\"  title=\"No, I never heard of it either\">Kyrgyzstan<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kyrgyzstan\"  title=\"Kyrgyzstan!\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Flag of Kyrgyzstan\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/img\/Flag_of_Kyrgyzstan.gif\" width=\"100%\" height=\"288\"  vspace=\"5\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like many others, it seems, I\u2019m not wild about the new logo that Interbrand has trotted out for Xerox. I think the typography is pretty nice, but hate hate hate the clunky, overdone, and seemingly pointless and trendy (in the really bad way) ball sitting there on the end. Even worse, it seems as if &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2008\/01\/11\/copiers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Copiers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultrarandom"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}