Comments on: The New Adobe Photoshop Logo – what’s with the hole dude???

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By: me

me — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 22:50:20 +0000

lol wtf… i think cs2 had the best logo’s, the later logo’s went downhill.
i don’t know how they could have released that hideous thing, clearly there aren’t much people liking it..
shame on adobe~

By: solodox

solodox — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 10:27:11 +0000

ADOBE!!! please don’t do this to us…
why would i want that logo to represent the photoshop i so proudly display on my object dock???!!!???
i say give me ten mins with the bozo who put this together and I’ll give him a gelatin heart,
seriously, I don’t want to ever have anything to do with this logo. I am staying with the good “new” Ps Logo!

BTW: Adobe, methinks its time some pple got fired!

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:34:55 +0000

It’s supposed to be a “P”. I like it, personally.

By: Dave Nicoll

Dave Nicoll — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 23:21:28 +0000

Man, is that ugly.

Without the hole, it’s a speech bubble. I’d assume it for was a chat app. If it’s supposed to be an amalgamation of the ‘P’ and the ‘S’ then the slant should be on the other side, methinks. Either way, I still can’t believe this got past senior designers, marketing and PR.

By: scaint

scaint — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:52:37 +0000

Okay, Im not sure I really liked the Ps thing but anyway, I also don’t understand how the logo is associated with the software’s function. Actually, I think the hole thing is supposed to go with the slogan i.e see what’s possible as in peer through the hole.Like the bog.keep on.

By: itchy

itchy — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 19:58:07 +0000

Hmmm…
It reminds me of a PBS logo from the 70’s, all dolled up in shiny bubbleness for the new milleniium.

By: Sqwink

Sqwink — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 20:51:20 +0000

I must say, that I am a fan of the Adobe CS2 set of Icons (although, I still like the CS3 ones too). Yeah, they’re very illustrative - but to me, they conveyed a really powerful message about each program via metaphors that need not be deciphered, rather associated with the individual components. The new “logo” is brilliant, though….brilliant in the fact that this is the first logo I’ve ever seen that has served the purpose of totally destroying a strong branding presence in the adobe CS. Well done adobe “designers” - now will you please find another job! Great post by the way…

By: Verne

Verne — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 09:04:02 +0000

I was actually a huge fan of the full set of CS3 icons/logos. I loved the simplicity of it all, and I think in terms of brand recognition, Adobe did a great job at associating simple two-letter combinations with their products.

This is the first time I’ve seen the new identity and I’m as disappointed as everyone else seems to be. I’m also equally lost on the whole speech bubble/”P” concept for the logo. For a company promoting design software, they’ve certainly missed the mark on this one. I’d recommend hitting ctrl+z.

By: Brainspore

Brainspore — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 16:57:25 +0000

While the square “CS3″ version of the logo says little about Photoshop itself, it is part of a fairly clever scheme to brand the application as part of the Adobe Creative Suite. Each application has a logo that looks like one element in the Periodic Table, so they make a much stronger impression when seen together than individually. I like this idea better than the “pretty flowers” logo system they used for CS1 and CS2.

If Adobe found a new logo system for their next suite that kept that same sense of unity but also hinted at what each application was used for then they would have a winner.