anton@ucbvax.ARPA (Jeff Anton) (05/22/85)
How many people have noticed that the PBS logo has been changed fairly recently? It had the 'P' modified to look like a face looking left followed by 'BS'. Now we have just the 'P' as a face looking right and a dull 'PBS' below. Is the administration trying to tell us something? I believe I heard somewhere that when PBS's first logo came out there was disagreement about the logo being a political statement. -- C knows no bounds. Jeff Anton U.C.Berkeley ucbvax!anton anton@berkeley.ARPA
ron@brl-tgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>) (05/23/85)
> How many people have noticed that the PBS logo has been changed > fairly recently? It had the 'P' modified to look like a face looking > left followed by 'BS'. Now we have just the 'P' as a face looking right > and a dull 'PBS' below. Is the administration trying to tell us something? > I believe I heard somewhere that when PBS's first logo came out there > was disagreement about the logo being a political statement. > -- There was some show where someone was doing a semi-animated discussion on how they came up with the PBS logos. The early ones had lots of stars and eagles which PBS didn't like. Then they started on the faces. The original was looking left, PBS wanted it to look right so they turned it around. Then they scrapped that and did the man in the "p" logo. The designers refused to make that face right because they didn't want the man's nose stuck in to the B. I guess PBS finally won out. -Ron
steve@micomvax.UUCP (Steve Grice) (05/27/85)
In article <7381@ucbvax.ARPA> anton@ucbvax.ARPA (Jeff Anton) writes: >How many people have noticed that the PBS logo has been changed >fairly recently? It had the 'P' modified to look like a face looking >left followed by 'BS'. Now we have just the 'P' as a face looking right >and a dull 'PBS' below. Is the administration trying to tell us something? >I believe I heard somewhere that when PBS's first logo came out there >was disagreement about the logo being a political statement. >-- Something to do with the P facing left or right. -- Steve Grice philabs!micomvax!steve