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With all the delicacy of the dentist who performs a root canal with a tin-can lid.

God. Just a bit of imagination or or delicacy or grace would have gone a long way.
Katy McDevitt
2009-09-25 13:24:21

Thanks for the code. I think Yahoo forgot the market make-up of Flickr - visual junkies, design/ photography professionals (& amateurs) all with an eye for detail and an appreciation of simple and beautiful imagery. Oh, and there's also the tw*ts that just fill it with their drunken night out pics. They probably want the logo bigger!
Chris Hannah
2009-09-25 13:48:15

Honestly, once on the site, who cares who owns it?! The format doesn't lead users to the parent company, it would work much better as a feature promoted on the Yahoo site.
thepicklebot
2009-09-25 14:00:08

I noticed this the other day. Does it really come as a great surprise?
gridula
2009-09-25 14:07:50

I wondered why it was purple? I thought Yahho was red? It looks like a visited link.
Ed Wright
2009-09-25 15:30:18

Its like living in Nazi Germany
Adolf Hitler
2009-09-25 15:36:14

Flicker has become a strong brand in its own right. Yahoo are obviously looking to strengthen their brand but I would argue rather than defacing the Flicker logo, they should have include a 'Brought to you by Yahoo' statement in the footer of the website, more subtle, but much more refined.
Web Design
2009-09-25 16:26:02

MASSIVE CORPORATION APPLIES LOGO TO ITS OWN BRAND. THOUSANDS FLEE CITIES. STATE OF EMERGENCY DECLARED.
Alex Szabo-Haslam
2009-09-26 10:50:08

What's going on with that exclamation point? Why are there two dots?
Daniel
2009-09-28 13:54:47

When people start complaining about stuff like this, it makes me think I'm in the wrong profession. I just can't find the energy to care about something so trivial when there is so much going on in the world that needs our attention. The Flickr logo was hardly a work of genius in the first place anyway.
James
2009-09-29 12:19:01

They spelt 'Flicker' wrong, too.
Ed Wright
2009-09-29 13:01:30

Your welcome, once a tread about a logo tweak gets over a thousand, mostly angry responses, i thought you chaps would find it of interest.
Daniel
2009-09-29 13:12:33

"Flicker has become a strong brand in its own right. Yahoo are obviously looking to strengthen their brand but I would argue rather than defacing the Flicker logo, they should have include a 'Brought to you by Yahoo' statement in the footer of the website, more subtle, but much more refined."

Couldn't agree more. It would look more professional and actually make yahoo look a little classy for being subtle about it.

In its current state it just looks cheap. I agree its really not a major issue as a user (I dont know why users give a shit tbh), but from Yahoo's point of view its a pretty poor marketing/branding attempt; cheapening 2 brands.

Now new users to the service wont feel like they're joining something new and different, they'll just feel as though they're signing up to a crummy yahoo service. Do Yahoo think their assosiation is something to boast about? Poor guys.
n
2009-09-29 13:46:41

I wonder if they paid some pretentious design company £100k to stick that on the end and say it was perfect!
gary
2009-09-29 14:52:31

I wonder if they paid some pretentious design company £100k to stick that on the end and say it was perfect!
gary
2009-09-29 15:17:46

hi, let me just add my thoughts, better late than never.

This is a result of Yahoo's popularity levels going down to due to strong competition by Google as many users now "google" when they need to search for anything. People say, "why don't you just google it?" and you don't hear people say, "why don't you just yahoo it?" it just doesn't roll off the tongue as well.

Flickr is so popular and doing so well on it's own that floundering parent company decided the best way to boost it's own not so popular image was to tighten the apron strings attached to it's money making, super-star kid.

the Yahoo logo looks like it has 2x dots for the exclamation and it's because of the registered trademark. on this size scale the "TM" would have been lost and therefore should not have been included on certain applications like this or under a certain size. Their design department should have thought of that and if it's not already in their corporate guidelines then they need to add in this section under LOGO.
skw
2009-10-06 03:00:16

Not the smartest thing Yahoo could have done. Quite a daft thing to do tbh. It won't do them much favours with most users of flickr.

The flickr logo is quite cool and the addition of the yahoo logo (which funny enough is not too bad on it's own) not only detracts from the flickr logo but messes up the new combined logo. They should revert it back to what it was. It would be funny if google did a similar thing with the youtube logo.
Check Web Design
2009-10-18 23:06:51

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