Comments on: Separated at birth? http://mnteractive.com/archive/separated-at-birth Minnesota's Interaction Design, Information Architecture, and User Experience Design Community Fri, 27 Apr 2012 22:37:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Graeme Thickins http://mnteractive.com/archive/separated-at-birth/comment-page-1#comment-3887 Graeme Thickins Sun, 04 Mar 2007 17:42:59 +0000 http://mnteractive.com/archive/separated-at-birth/#comment-3887 that's a riot, Darrel! one would think Zune would've come first, but I'm not so sure...Zink's been in development a long time -- and knowing MS' lame past in naming and branding, I would tend to side with Zink on this one but who knows? goes to show, I guess, that there just aren't all that many original, new ideas when it comes to logos! (btw, there's a connection of sorts to the Twin Cities relating to Zink....they're former Polaroid people, and that brand is now owned, of course, by The Petters Group...so I happen to know they maintain a relationship with Petters -- I met the Zink CEO at the recent DEMO conference where they had their coming-out party) that’s a riot, Darrel! one would think Zune would’ve come first, but I’m not so sure…Zink’s been in development a long time — and knowing MS’ lame past in naming and branding, I would tend to side with Zink on this one

but who knows? goes to show, I guess, that there just aren’t all that many original, new ideas when it comes to logos!

(btw, there’s a connection of sorts to the Twin Cities relating to Zink….they’re former Polaroid people, and that brand is now owned, of course, by The Petters Group…so I happen to know they maintain a relationship with Petters — I met the Zink CEO at the recent DEMO conference where they had their coming-out party)

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