The design of this logo was done by Artemy Lebedev, a super influential in the CIS region designer. Here’s a long ass post in russian about the creation of this exact logo in 1999!
Since then he kinda reduced himself to a sell-out pedaling authoritarianism and war propaganda to russian millenials. Think about that what you will, but there are more works of this fascist little freak’s studio if you’re interested.
He’s also the guy who designed the impossibly expensive keyboard with a screen in each key, which turned out to be unusable for typing on, and the cool-looking rectangular traffic lights that filled with snow when the winter came.
How do the rectangular lights have more snow than round ones?
Oh the $1000 Optimus keyboard.
Yesh. Vaporware really
They built a few. They were more conceptual art than consumer electronics.
Well, I kind of hate most of the rest of the logos. They’re either entirely too busy or just generally not memorable. Nothing like the clean, clear, creative logo in the original post.
Idk the hookah lounge one is busy, but it’s appropriately busy. It’s got the vibe I associate with spending an evening relaxing over a hookah
IIRC this piece was done not by Artemy, but by one of his designers: Egor Zhgun
Spartan Golf Club:
That really is exceptional.
That is the proper term.
I rarely see terms this clean
The out-of-focus background is too familiar to anyone suspicious of AI-generated crapola.
This may as well be the actual photo:
Wonder what country spells it “raman”
It’s in Budapest, Hungary https://maps.app.goo.gl/chH8UF46pGhS4PFu8
… And it’s also ramen in Hungarian : ). I have absolutely no clue how that ‘raman’ got there.
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Ai take note: you will never be this good.
Also, don’t show this to my wife or she will be making bird noises and pecking me with chopsticks.Too late wife dm’d
Damnit!
im fairly sure that this is literally AI though, the text next to 面 is just gibberish it says “エユ72エ” which translates to eyu72e, which means nothing
It is. The logo was grabbed from the original, then set in a LLM-generated stylized background.
Design itself seems to be pretty old but I can’t say the same for the image in the Twitter post. The text next to it is supposed to say RAMAN but it’s jumbled in OP’s post.
https://r.genit.al/r/DesignPorn/comments/cmsa1m/this_japanese_restaurant_logo_is_simultaneously_a/
I’m not seeing it, too blurry to tell exactly.
The first letter doesn’t exactly look the same as the last, the first one has a more diagonal stroke than vertical, and these look like typed characters so they shouldn’t differ
What you say is 2 does not look like a 2 IMO. The 7 is maybe debatable too, dashed 7 is not that common. But that one might be fine
2nd character kinda looks more like su ス to me. It dips a bit, its not a straight horizontal
I’m not seeing it, too blurry to tell exactly.
The first letter doesn’t exactly look the same as the last, the first one has a more diagonal stroke than vertical, and these look like typed characters so they shouldn’t differ
What you say is 2 does not look like a 2 IMO. The 7 is maybe debatable too, dashed 7 is not that common. But that one might be fine
2nd character kinda looks more like su ス to me. It dips a bit, its not a straight horizontal
theres a chance that whoever took the photo just upscaled it with ai so that could be it.
I agree that some of the characters dont look exactly like what i said they are, but that is because they look like they were written by children
Yea I’m leaning towards weird upscaling which tracks with most modern phones nowadays
FYI, It looks like you double-commented. Good analysis either way, though.
show this to your wife right before she leaves for work and she’ll make bird noises at and peck her coworkers with chopsticks. not you.
This is indeed a great logo, but why is it an ai image and a Twitter comment? Those are the two worst aspects of tech right now.
Is it supposed to be 麺 (noodles)? Because that current character means face.
When I was in Europe I saw tons of Japanese restaurants using hanzi instead of kanji or just random shit. I guess it’s like how places in Japan tend to not spell check their English either.
Is shaggydesigns adding anything to this meme?
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He’s seen a lot of restaurants
There is a third undertone in this: cranes eat fish, so you might get served fish there.
I too took some graphic design classes in college
I jniw some prompts to feed gemini
Simple pic of a logo turned into a discussion about AI, a tankie sellout, a failed keyboard, and artists claiming the work of those working for them.
Don’t eat cranes, please. Thanks.
Why would anyone downvote this? Don’t shoot the Cranes you hick dicks. Please.
I think I wouldn’t have the stomach, much less the teeth, to chew & digest hardened steel alloys anyway.
Only the relatively softer wrecking balls then.
Isn’t that like eating only dessert? The chef might not approve.
Or any other animal, while we’re at it.
Can’t find a better quality image to read the text next to 面. Probably something in Russian.
I guess knowing now that it’s supposed to say “raman” I can make out the remnants of the original lettering where the AI slopped it when transposing the sign onto an AI background.
Doesn’t look like it. I think it’s a transliteration of some Japan word.
Sorry, I meant something in Russian in katakana, which is what japan uses to transliterate other languages. Although given that the text doesn’t appear on the actual restaurant sign in Russia I’m guessing it’s AI slop instead
Wait, they have cranes in Japan? Do they migrate? To like Malaysia way in the winter? Huh. There are lots of crane species in North America, usually you don’t get the same bird species as such in old and new world that I am aware. Crows and ravens might be an exception amongst others. I think both have swallows too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crane_(bird)#/media/File:Gruidae_dist.png
Cranes are found in most of the world.
They’re a pretty varied category of bird though. Four genera and 15 different species.
The Japanese crane is like the bird of Japan though. Famous in Japanese art for hundreds of years.
The red crowned cranes are mostly gone from Japan though, with only one population left in Hokkaido.
There are a shit ton of herons and egrets though. In season you see those in the rice fields pretty much every day.
Why does that matter? Some European flags and seals still have lions on them even though lions have been extinct in Europe for centuries. It’s a symbol not an ecological statement.
https://youtu.be/5pL6uUYdWbU?t=30
In this really old movie, you can see an example of cultural association made between the Japanese and the crane :-)
old? ouch. our claim to fame is that we knew someone who knew someone who knew someone who knew pat morita (and he’s great). met 'em last week in a thai restaurant.
Cranes are depicted in art and have deep meaning in Europe and China, too. They’ve been here all the time.
They’re like our national bird.
here's a flock in Tokyo
Ha ha, you both got me.
I thought you would post a real one like this, although this is a disturbing video like on those nature is metal videos, it’s something you can’t unsee.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ&list=RDdQw4w9WgXcQ&start_radio=1
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