Who wants the old multi-color Apple logo back?

[springscansing]

I think it would be so badass if the future 970 towers have a huge multi-color Apple logo on the side of them. A real 'stick this in your smoke and cock it' kinda thing. Whadda ya think?

I know its not gonna happen, but I love the rainbow logo....

... and my girlfriend ...

[mischief]

I've always thought the best update to the logo would be a true rainbow apple that iridesces as you walk around it.:D Better yet: a mylar holographically rainbow logo that's millions of tiny rainbow apples that rotate around the cener and change colour as you change your prespective.

[rainman::|:|]

haha, well, yeah, i definitely agree... i miss the days of the rainbow logo, and the Apple Garamond font (it's pretty well dead now) and the full word "Macintosh"... but it's just not gonna happen. They're trying for a 21st century look, and they seem to think the new font and solid logo add to that... To some extent they may be right, still...

There's always modding :)

pnw

[King Cobra]

mischief, I have a feeling you'll be getting a few more PMs and trigger more pie fights with this particular thread. :D

A "stick this in your smoke and cock it" thing would be potentially fatal to the mind and to the cock. :)

I think the old is a thing of the past, as it has always been from any point since then. Would you rather the New Jersey Devils bring back their old logo, or replace your local town with a forest or wetland?

BTW: This is a crappy mock-up.

[MacFan25]

I like the 21st Century look. I am glad that Apple doesn't use the rainbow logo because I think the logo they use now looks nicer.

[Vector]

I like the old logo, but it would not look very good on the new hardware. It looks nice on my wallstreet powerbook and my beige macs, but imagine how it would look on the side of a quicksilver tower. The graphite, white, and aluminum colors would not be a good complement to the 6 color rainbow.

[GeeYouEye]

I wouldn't mind if they brought that back... as well as Apple Garamond... preferably if they included it with the system, outside of the Setup Assistant, in a form that actually looks good on AppleWorks (Ever tried SetupAssistant.dfont in AppleWorks? looks horrible). In fact, I wouldn't mind if they also put the Myriad font that replaced AG on the system as well... anyone know if it's lurking on the system like AG is?

[mc68k]

i put it on my car and my desktop, but it's too 70/80's for them to ever bring it back again. no colors for apple now on any of their HW.

[Macmaniac]

Instead of making a multi color logo, make a logo that changes color with the rise and fall of the temperature in the computer!! Apple has a patent for some kind of chamelon case why not use it?
Or they could make the Apple logo change like the iTunes visual!!

[uhlawboi80]

hmm, i dont think they will bring back the rainbow logo. it really would look odd on the current hardware. i dont think id like my TiBooks white apple logo to be a rainbowed apple. well...maybe :) but not on the power macs and stuff. the white/titanium crispness would be interupted.

though i must say that my sister hunted down the old rainbow apple stickers for my car. it eliminates the need for two seperate stickers :p

[scem0]

I never liked the rainbow mac. It was kind of... old looking. ;)

[wdlove]

The multi color was good for the 20th Century. Now I like the solid color Apple logo on the side Tower, the white logo looks great on the titanium PowerBook. :)

[eyelikeart]

I guess I'm more for the modern simplicity of the newer logo...

I think it goes well with the newer look of the systems...

couldn't imagine a rainbow apple logo in place of the white glow of a TiBook... :eek: :D ;)

[jefhatfield]

have several

black on white, white on black, silver on black, multicolor, and others

it's the shape that is recognizeable....even by non computer types

only forrest gump thinks apple inc. is some fruit company out in california:p

[cubist]

Looking at the enormous gray apple on my cube... I think it'd look nicer if it were chrome, and flatter (wider).

[King Cobra]

Originally posted by jefhatfield
only forrest gump thinks apple inc. is some fruit company out in california:p

Hah! Saw that today as well, huh?

Well, from his view, we could be introducing the new Banana PowerMac instead. :p :eek: :eek:

[DeusOmnis]

Originally posted by mc68k
i put it on my car and my desktop, but it's too 70/80's for them to ever bring it back again. no colors for apple now on any of their HW.


I agree, Apple is all about the future and getting there first. They wont be there first if they're hanging out in the past.

[medea]

nah it was time for an apple update to the logo and it looks great on the machines now.one day when the silver or white or whatever modern look they use gets old you will probably see a retro return of the rainbow apple....

[Macmaniac]

Originally posted by jefhatfield
have several

black on white, white on black, silver on black, multicolor, and others

it's the shape that is recognizeable....even by non computer types

only forrest gump thinks apple inc. is some fruit company out in california:p

[macphisto]

The rainbow was a classic in its day, and I hope Apple release a limited edition something or other with a updated rainbow apple.

From a design aspect, the new logos are tres cool. They should incorporate a backlit logo on all of their hardware, like on the powerbooks (cpu hardware that is.)

:)

[rainman::|:|]

See, it definitely looks better on their current machines to have solid apple logos, but it'd be nice if they kept Apple Garamond and the 6-color logo on their letterhead and on signs and stuff. and use the new font (what the hell is it called, anyway, i want to call it eMac 'cause that's where it first showed on hardware) and solid logos on products... but that's too "complicated" for apple... bah.

you want 70's and 80's, go look for the original font, the 'a' in apple fit into the bite taken out of the apple logo... and that's how it appeared on a lot of things, including all of their motherboards. you just want to put on smoky-tinted glasses and do cocaine.

:)
pnw

[job]

I'm putting a multi-color Apple sticker on the back of my '76 Beetle.

Why?

The white logo just looks out of place on the back of another cultural icon.


for spelling errors

[mc68k]

Originally posted by hitman
I'm putting a multi-color Apple sticker on the bacl of my '76 Beetle.I put it on my car to show that I know the old macs as well as the new. soon i'm getting a MR sticker too.

[Thanatoast]

have you seen those cars that have two-color paint that changes color depending on where you're standing. what if apple made their logo do that with new shades of their old colors? you could still have a solid color, which would rainbow when you walked by it. shoot, alienware has all the colors we need, already.

[Chad]

sniff sniff

I am getting old ;(

I remember how cool it was when I got the first Macintosh ;)

ah bringing home the box opening it up ;) I would love to have another one just for fun ;)
I wish I kept all my software had like over 500 disks of stuff ;)
had the cool portable bag I remember lugging it to college adn my prof was just like WOW HOW COOL
I loved the clean looks etc...
I still have the original sticker bag with the Rainbow apple and I kept a couple of the boxes from the disks ;)

[sickboy_osX]

Originally posted by scem0
I never liked the rainbow mac. It was kind of... old looking. ;)


Could it possibly be that it is because you werent even born when it was started :-D

[MacKid]

Originally posted by springscansing
I think it would be so badass if the future 970 towers have a huge multi-color Apple logo on the side of them. A real 'stick this in your smoke and cock it' kinda thing. Whadda ya think?

I know its not gonna happen, but I love the rainbow logo....

... and my girlfriend ... DOA ANYONE?

[MacKid]

Originally posted by scem0
I never liked the rainbow mac. It was kind of... old looking. ;)

Although it did seem sort of old-fashioned, one of the reasons might be because in all the past OS's, it didn't looked to be anti-aliased or smoothed in any way.

[MacBandit]

Okay to start off I think that an Apple logo that changes colors in different angles would be really cool.

To tell you the truth the reason I think Apple dropped the multicolor logo is that color design was adopted as the Gay Pride Flag colors. It's not about it being associated with the Gay Pride it's about differenciating themselves from any ties.

[scem0]

Originally posted by sickboy_osX



Could it possibly be that it is because you werent even born when it was started :-D

probably ;). To me, it would be like going back to beige cases :eek: ;) .

[iAlan]

Good point about the gay pride colours being very similar to the old Apple logo colours.

I think Apple needed to introduce a solid colour logo to bring it in line with their new computers. Wasn't the Bondi iMac the first to have a solid colour logo?

I would love to see a new special edition Mac to go along with the Apple anniversary next year - with a multi coloured logo.

[scem0]

I would rather this 'anniversary' mac have a holographic logo.

That would be much cooler ;).

[Chaszmyr]

I am glad Apple phased out the rainbow!

But they started with blue... that was ugly.

Then they moved to graphite.. GOOD MOVE! I liked it.

Now they use Mirrored... i cant decide if i like the mirrored more than the graphite or not.

[scem0]

The only problem with the mirrored logo is that it seems to attract
finger prints. It does look nice though...

[wdlove]

Originally posted by scem0
I would rather this 'anniversary' mac have a holographic logo.

That would be much cooler ;).

Any rumors as to what it might be like?