14.5.12

----- Design Addictive Game -----



If there's a game for graphic designers to play at a party, this would be it: iPhone Logo Quiz App. I found myself with my cousins for once having a peaceful family night out; no whiny voices, no temper tantrums or fits about who's right or who's wrong—well maybe not the latter—we had great laughs and showcased our best thinking caps. Basically it's as simple as naming the logo, but the logo is revealed by patches, for example, they would only provide the "c" and the "o" of "Canon" or the crown of Hallmark, etc. The best part came when the Netscape logo appeared and my 1995-young cousin barely recognized it, watched him struggle to guess it since he only had a taste of the ancient browser as a child.

This game corroborates the prominence in the design of a logo; how swiftly it embeds into our brains' storage systems, even without the full name written out, we are acquainted by the fonts or the colours and the shapes and forms, and sometimes with the nuances between same logos, we can still differentiate them apart.

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