Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer with new Optima-themed iWear she designed over a weekend.
First photographers, now designers. I sense a trending meme here.
Marissa Mayer, Yahoo CEO, made all kinds of friends with her new Yahoo logo roll-out. She spent a long weekend with her design team, and the obligatory intern playing with Adobe Illustrator to get what she wanted. And it looked a lot like this:
Pairs well with Comic Sans.
“Round 489, and I think I got it. I really like, like really, the B beveled because it matches the playful, capricious O’s. This really is a story of O, with 9 degrees of tilt for the exclamation point, which I just learned is called a bang! Gosh! I totally got it, more than once, LOL. Now I’m gonna pour out some decaf latte in honor of this dude Herman Zapf, because he was in Zapf Comix a long time before I was born. I left in the Y because its vestigial, like an appendix.”
A design board I subscribe to had a lot of traffic on this one. Why was I beating a corpse? One, she’s not dead. Two, she took a flying, crapulent dump on the design profession. She’s deserving of every insult, jibe, and lampoon for her ego-driven stunt. She may be one of the 100 Wealthiest Humanoids On The Planet, but has proven she knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
Larry Gassan Photography 