Anyone else been noticing the abundance of speech bubbles these days? It seems as though they’ve become the de facto symbol representing the interactive and personalized nature of Web 2.0 – and startup companies can’t seem to get enough of them when it comes to designing a new logo.
Eachday writes:
As a catch-all symbol, the speech bubble is tough to resist. It contains what everyone wants to say about the “new” web: user-generated, communication, collaboration, commenting, social media, community, self-published, my voice, our voice, rating, ranking, sharing and the rest. On top of that, it’s simple with a minimum of line, approachable and cuddly, and you can always count on people getting it. What more could a would-be communicator want?
But, it’s over. The day has come to pronounce from far and wide – “Attention all startups, it’s a bad idea to hang your ID hat on a speech bubble. Just don’t.”
Follow the link for a painstakingly thorough aggregation of Web 2.0 speech bubble logos.
Eachday: Die Speech Bubble Logo, Die.
[via Brand Autopsy]
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