Tuesday, August 02, 2005

Do you see what I see?

fedex

ex

*click*

13 comments:

jules said...

I do see it. This was pointed out to me just recently actually!

Poppy said...

My husband told me about this today, learned it in a workshop. That would explain why all these years I thought the logo looked "off". Now, everytime I see it I see the arrow right away.

c said...

HOLY CRAP!

I never, ever noticed that before, and even with the hints, I didn't see it until your comment above.

kris said...

Pretty sneaky, sis! It definitely took me a little bit . . .

Poppy said...

That's because the arrow is WHITE, damn them. Negative space. It's like the old lady in the candle sticks, they're just messin' with us! Oh well. :)

Poppy said...

Oh, wait, the old lady isn't in the candlesticks, it's two faces in the candlesticks. Sigh. See? It's the beautiful lady and the old lady...


Does anyone get what this means:

HAMLET
WORDS

? I felt so stupid when I was finally told.

Bella said...

I see an ex as in ex-friend??? I also see an arrow. Is that what you are referring to? Maybe I should click on the link, huh? Ya think that might work??

Anonymous said...

Words under Hamlet? What the fuh...? I don't get it.

kris said...

Tell us the Hamlet thing - please! :)

Poppy said...

HAMLET
WORDS

=

"Play on words"

Some smartass thought that up for an "IQ Test".

Poppy said...

Bella, the white space in between the E and the x of Ex is a right-facing arrow.

Poppy said...

According to the workshop my husband attended, FedEx intentionally made their logo this way to include the arrow, which I think means "going places". But, if you check out Acts of Volition there isn't any published evidence that it was intentional. E and x together do always form an arrow... ( Ex see?)

Mair said...

I read somewhere that they spent millions getting a graphics company to get that in there. Every time I see the logo, I get all zoned out on it. Bad for when I drive by FedEx trucks!