To be honest, I have no idea what to do with this redesign.

• There is a lack of explanation (why did you do some things?)
• I want to know why you changed the typography. I think they spent a lot of time looking at their own logo at Google and the typography is probable like this for a good reason.
• I don't get the "google mobile iphone / ipad" - it's just a little piece of interface in an icon?

Very confusing overall.

That 'g' looks enormous.

What is achieved by the redesign?

We spent weeks trying to draw a perfect two-story lowercase 'g' from various typeface families in my typography class.

The loop is supposed to be bigger than the bowl. And with that enlarged bowl, that 'g' looks like an 'o'.

"Gooole"

Is this dry humor, that I'm not getting?

The english is so jarring.

that e

If the designer had even basic knowledge of typography, he'd know that a double-story lowercase "g" doesn't have the same bowl size as an "o" for a reason. Looks very amateur.

I just want to point out that this guy did not start with the current google logo.

Yeah....no.

I just immediately noticed the type differences and perceived them as wrong. Hard to know if that's just cause I'm used to the real one, though.

wat

Eric Karjaluoto - Keep Your Unsolicited Redesign to Yourself

The Two Corners of Unsolicited Redesigns

Unfortunately there's no visual balance anymore.

I get why he wanted to align the body size of the 'g' with the 'o', but it makes the 'g' look disproportionately large.

Why posting this here?

That 'g' is so whack