Amazing Collection: amazing brand names and their meaning

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<h1 style="text-align: left;">Company Logos and their Meanings</h1><div style="margin-bottom: 5px; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 5px; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Ever wondered what company logos mean and whats the significance behind them?</b><br />
<b> Wonder no more!</b></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><img alt="Amazon" height="134" src="http://img464.imageshack.us/img464/3001/image011ri9.jpg" width="361" /></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b>You might think the arrow does nothing here. But it says that amazon.com has everything from </b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>a to z and it also represents the smile brought to  </b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>the customer's face. Wow, that is quite deep.</b></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><div style="text-align: left;"> <img alt="FedEx" border="0" height="250" hspace="6" src="http://www.funonthenet.in/images/stories/forwards/company%20logos/fedex.png" title="FedEx" width="500" /></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Am not sure how many of you have noticed a hidden symbol in the Federal Express logo.</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Yeah, I am talking about the 'arrow' that you can see between the E and the x in this logo. </b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>The arrow was introduced to underscore speed and precision, which are part of the positioning </b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>of the company.</b></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><img alt="Baskin Robins" border="0" height="250" hspace="6" src="http://www.funonthenet.in/images/stories/forwards/company%20logos/baskin-robbins.png" title="Baskin Robins" width="500" /></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><div style="text-align: left;"> <b>The old logo of Baskin Robbins had the number 31 with an arc above it. </b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>The new logo took this idea to the next level. The pink parts of the BR still form the number 31, </b><br />
<b>a reference</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b> to the 31 flavours.</b></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><img alt="Carrefour" border="0" height="250" hspace="6" src="http://www.funonthenet.in/images/stories/forwards/company%20logos/carrefour.png" title="Carrefour" width="500" /> </div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><div style="text-align: left;"> <b>Carrefour is one of the biggest European retailers, and its also French for crossroads.</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b> The logo symbolizes this word via two opposite arrows. They also added the first letter</b><br />
<b> of the name,  </b><b style="background-color: white;">because </b><b style="background-color: white;">if you look closely youll see the letter C in the negative space</b><br />
<b style="background-color: white;"> between the two arrows.</b></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><div style="text-align: left;"> <img alt="Formula 1" border="0" height="250" hspace="6" src="http://www.funonthenet.in/images/stories/forwards/company%20logos/formula-1.png" title="Formula 1" width="500" /></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><div style="text-align: left;"> <b>At first, this logo might not make much sense. But if you look closely, youll see the</b><br />
<b> number </b><b style="background-color: white;">1 in the negative </b><b style="background-color: white;">space between the F and the red stripes. I also love how </b><br />
<b style="background-color: white;">this logo communicates a feeling of speed.</b></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><img alt="NBC" border="0" height="250" hspace="6" src="http://www.funonthenet.in/images/stories/forwards/company%20logos/nbc.png" title="NBC" width="500" /></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b> The NBC (National Broadcasting Company) is one of the biggest American television </b><br />
<b>networks. </b><b style="background-color: white;">I think most of you have already seen the peacock in this logo. The </b><br />
<b style="background-color: white;">peacock has 6 different </b><b style="background-color: white;"> tail feathers, referring to the six divisions at the time that </b><br />
<b style="background-color: white;">this logo was created. The peacocks </b><b style="background-color: white;"> head is flipped to the right to suggest it was</b><br />
<b style="background-color: white;"> looking forward, not back.</b></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><img alt="Sony Vaio" border="0" height="250" hspace="6" src="http://www.funonthenet.in/images/stories/forwards/company%20logos/sony-vaio.png" title="Sony Vaio" width="500" /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Sony Vaio is a well known brand of laptops. But did you know that the name Vaio logo</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b> also had a hidden meaning? Well, the first two letters represent the basic analogue signal. </b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>The last two letters look like a 1 and 0, representing the digital signal.</b></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><img alt="Toblerone" border="0" height="250" hspace="6" src="http://www.funonthenet.in/images/stories/forwards/company%20logos/toblerone.png" title="Toblerone" width="500" /> </div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Toblerone is a chocolate-company from Bern , Switzerland . Bern is sometimes called </b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>The City Of Bears. They have incorporated this idea in the Toblerone logo, because if</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b> you look closely, youll see the silhouette of a bear.</b></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><img alt="Unilever" border="0" height="250" hspace="6" src="http://www.funonthenet.in/images/stories/forwards/company%20logos/unilever.png" title="Unilever" width="500" /></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Unilever is one of the biggest producers of food, beverages, cleaning agents and personal </b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>care products. They produce a huge amount of different products and they wanted to </b><br />
<b>reflect </b><b style="background-color: white;">this in their logo. Each part of the logo has a meaning. For example: the heart</b><br />
<b style="background-color: white;"> represents love, care  </b><b style="background-color: white;">and health - feeling good, a bird is a symbol of freedom. Relief</b><br />
<b style="background-color: white;"> from daily chores “ getting more out of life.</b></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><img alt="IBM" height="270" src="http://img329.imageshack.us/img329/3218/logoibmdf4.jpg" width="450" /></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Paul Rand (who designed the iconic IBM logo in 1972) designed this 'eye bee M' logo in 1981.</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b> I like that they are quite relaxed about the logo, unlike certain other companies who do not like</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b> the logo to be tampered with in any way even for internal promotions</b></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><img alt="SUN" height="140" src="http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/1859/logosummicrosoftyg4.jpg" width="250" /></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b>The SUN Microsystems logo is a wonderful example of symmetry and order.</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b> It was a brilliant observation that the letters u and n while arranged adjacent to</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b> each other look a lot like the letter S in a perpendicular direction. Spectacular.</b></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><div style="text-align: left;"> <img alt="Families Marriage" height="360" src="http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/7581/logomarriageoy3.jpg" width="450" /></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b>The above are two magazines from the Readers Digest stable. Again, the attempt to</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b> communicate what it is about quite figuratively through the logo catches my attention.</b></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><img alt="Cluenatic" height="232" src="http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/7137/logocluenaticzz0.jpg" width="376" /></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b>This was a logo created for a puzzle game called Cluenatic. This game involves</b><br />
<b> unravelling four clues. </b><b style="background-color: white;">The logo has the letters C, L, U and E arranged as a maze.</b><br />
<b style="background-color: white;"> and from a distance, </b><b style="background-color: white;"> the logo looks like a key</b></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><img alt="Eighty20" height="250" src="http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/8828/logoeighty20pp6.jpg" width="450" /></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Eighty-20 is a small consulting company which does sophisticated financial modeling, as well </b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>as some solid database work. All their work is highly quantitative and relies on some serious</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>computational power, and the logo is meant to convey it.</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>People first guess that 20% of the squares are darkened, but that turns out</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b> to be false after counting them. The trick is to view the dark squares as 1's and the light squares</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b> as 0's. Then the top line reads 1010000 and the bottom line reads 0010100, which represent</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b> 80 and 20 in binary.</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Kinda like the surreal green screen of The Matrix, they want us to read stuff in binary</b></div></div></td></tr>
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