John Pavlus writes on the Fast Company design blog about financial news site TheStreet.com‘s redesigned logo.
“Scher’s new brand identity drops the no-longer-necessary ‘.com’ (this is 2011 — who isn’t a dot-com?) and the clichéd, Wall Street Journal-wannabe serif typeface. In their place: a muscular, no-nonsense font (a hand-drawn modification of Akzidenz Grotesk, if you’re wondering) with a triple-dash graphic mark, inspired by (what did you expect?) street markings, that boils the brand down to its Platonic essence.
“‘I just looked at a real street: those three dotted lines are the fast lane,’ Scher tells Co.Design. ‘It’s a perfect analogy to who they are.'”
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REALLY? The new logo is just too plain. It looks like I should be contacting them to pave my drive way. And their new 'corporate' website is the same way: too plain.