Logos and mission statements are extremely important in today's society. They help brand specific companies, and give us an idea of what an organization wants to accomplish. Mission statements, although not as well known as logos, are great for finding what a company is for. Logos, meanwhile, are quick and easy way to identify companies and organizations. Take, for example, the logo below. You probably recognize it, right? It might even make you begin to crave a coffee, or maybe a muffin. That's the power of a logo; I haven't even mentioned the name of the company whose logo that is, and yet we all still know what it represents.
Logos are extremely important parts of brands/companies/organizations. They represent their organizations and give them a public image, so if you need to make a logo, be sure to take your time with it and design it just right.
I think the Google logo is pretty much perfect. It's very simple, so it's not hard to remember, it's colorful and fun, and perhaps most importantly, it's adaptable. What I mean by this is that Google continually changes its logo to commemorate certain events throughout history which it considers important. This is a really fun tradition of Google's, and it paints a picture (no pun intended!) of a company that not only wants money; they also appreciate creativity, science, and art.
What's your favorite logo and why?
PS. Fun fact: Google's name is an intentional misspelling of 'googol', which is a really cool number. One googol is 10^100, or 1 with 100 zeroes after it. That number is ridiculously big! But even more ridiculous is a googolplex, or 10^googol. It's 1 with googol zeroes. That number is so big that if you had a piece of paper the length of the observable universe, and you tried typing a googolplex in size 1 font, you still wouldn't have enough space to write a googolplex! In fact, the distance required to write a googolplex would be 4x10^69 times the diameter of the observable universe (which is 93 billion light-years!). And Google's headquarters is called, you guessed it, The GooglePlex.
Well, the remixing unit at my school is almost over now, and we've been asked to reflect upon it. The truth is that before this unit, I barely knew anything about remixing, and I didn't really respect remixing, or even think about it as an art form. I've come to realize that remixing is a lot easier and a lot harder than most people think. It's easier in the sense that anybody can do it; by this I mean that everyone has access to remixing tools. It's much harder than most think, however, to actually create good remixes. You need to work for a long time to get everything just right, and you need to know a lot of music really well, because that's the only way you'll know what goes well with what. Basically, remixing is a skill that takes time and effort to develop, and should not be undervalued. I now understand that remixing is indeed a form of art, and a pretty hard one at that.
In the 21st century, the most important skill anybody could have in technology is programming (also known as coding). Now that I think about it, programming is one of the most important skills you could have, period. Below is a really cool video that explains why coding/programming is so valuable.
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