Motorola Mobility, Google’s gadget making sub-company, has just unveiled a new logo that embraces flat design elements: the Motorola badge has been surrounded by a ring of colors, and there’s a new proclamation of Motorola being “A Google company” underneath everything.
Killian thinks it looks a bit like Motorola was aping Jony Ive’s iOS 7 redesign, but I have to say, between the busy-ness of the design, the atrocious font choice, and Motorola’s existing (terrible) logo, I think he’d do a spit-take looking at this. What do you think?
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
7 responses to “Did Motorola Take Ideas From Jony Ive When Designing Their New Logo?”
Type is too thick, colors aren’t garish enough. Ives is safe.
Wow, they probably paid some ‘design’ firm hundreds of thousands to come up with that. Ugh.
Horrible! Worse than the original Motorola design. I am positive that Motorola had no inspiration from Johny Ives. If they had – the design would have been much better.
In any case, it is about time, they start calling Motorola – Google – Motorola simply does not exist anymore expect they still produce crap phones.
I can see Johnny Ive filing a patent infringement on this.
Not even close to Jon’s work in fact it looks absolutely horrible pretty much like all of motorola’s devices
This could easily be put beside iOS 7 for a person who doesn’t know what it is and they would think the two go together. That being said, both are hideous.
Jillian and Brownlee are both right. Motorola took cues from Jony Ive much as Frankenstein took cues from God with similar monstrous results.