If they couldn’t fit the NJ in on the sign why did they have to make it a triangle? :smack:
FINALLY, my liberal arts education pays off!
Starbucks is named after Starbuck, a character in Moby Dick who was majorly into coffee. The relationship between sailors and mermaids is well-documented.
I don’t quite understand why these have logos at all. They’re just roads, right? You drive on them if it’s a good way to get where you’re going. It’s not like they are some company looking for customers. What’s the point?
There was a British punk band called Snuff. Look at their logo upside down.
Here’s Red Dog Beer, already inverted for your safety. It looks like Batman taking a crap as seen from the top of his lavatory stall. Work with me.
Lucent? That’s the only logo that I can think of that would look like a “ring of quality”, brown or not.
Starbucks -> Starbuck, first mate on the Pequod(Moby Dick) -> Sailors -> Mermaids
I’m assuming the name came first, which is what wiki seems to indicate.
I love the old Lucent logo. It’s a Zen Buddhist ink drawing, clean and simple. I don’t agree with the mockery.
What am I looking for? - it looks kind of like a stylised leaping ram…
The two stylized “f” letters form a capital “A”. Then, the upside-down “u” becomes an “n” and the upside-down “n” becomes a “u”, then the “s” remains an “s”… spelling “Anus.”
Thing of the “ff” as an “A”…
You’re all very imaginative, I’ll give you that… :dubious:
I guess there had to be some people that liked it or it would have never been used. But it always looked to me like like a last minute improvisation with a paintbrush the night before the logo was due… or a coffee mug stain. Or a Zen Buddhist ink drawing of a coffee mug stain. 
it is a melusine