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Title: Avast symbol is very nice, but what is it?
Post by: cnmoore on June 20, 2011, 08:56:06 PM: Great symbol for great program, but I can't decide what it is.

I think of it as an amoeba eating and recycling a virus. But maybe it is a nautical control for reversing the engines. Or a valve to shut off the input.
Title: Re: Avast symbol is very nice, but what is it?
Post by: Gargamel360 on June 20, 2011, 09:14:21 PM: Yeah, I've heard of it referred to as an amoeba a few times, that seems to be it, unofficially anyway.

Could be thought of as an ink blot also, I suppose.
Title: Re: Avast symbol is very nice, but what is it?
Post by: Raveen Kool on June 20, 2011, 09:22:23 PM: IT LOOKS LIKE A BACTERIA WHICH Engulfs VIRUSES............ ::)
Title: Re: Avast symbol is very nice, but what is it?
Post by: spg SCOTT on June 20, 2011, 11:02:45 PM: A little more info:
https://blog.avast.com/2010/01/19/the-new-avast-logo/
Title: Re: Avast symbol is very nice, but what is it?
Post by: cnmoore on June 21, 2011, 02:25:16 AM: Quote from: spg SCOTT on June 20, 2011, 11:02:45 PM
A little more info:
https://blog.avast.com/2010/01/19/the-new-avast-logo/

Wow! My congratulations to Martin on elegantly clean web design.
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The “blob”. Internally we fondly call the orange graphical element “the blob”. To me, it is avast (represented by the stylized a in the center) surrounded by people (represented by the four nodes or appendages)....Now to be honest though, Martin came up with the shape in advance of any message we could weave around it

Who knew!
I sure thought the squiggle in the middle was a Refresh sign.
Title: Re: Avast symbol is very nice, but what is it?
Post by: BRANDONN2008 on June 21, 2011, 05:18:37 AM: I like the idea of it representing members of the community connected. Personally I think it would make a better tray icon than the ball.
Title: Re: Avast symbol is very nice, but what is it?
Post by: willofaustralia on June 21, 2011, 09:12:19 AM: Looks like a target store sign
Title: Re: Avast symbol is very nice, but what is it?
Post by: pk on June 21, 2011, 11:12:07 AM: It's Kenny from South Park.
Title: Re: Avast symbol is very nice, but what is it?
Post by: Asyn on June 21, 2011, 11:13:56 AM: Quote from: pk on June 21, 2011, 11:12:07 AM
It's Kenny from South Park.

;D
Title: Re: Avast symbol is very nice, but what is it?
Post by: cnmoore on June 21, 2011, 07:34:58 PM: Quote from: Brandonn2010 on June 21, 2011, 05:18:37 AM
I like the idea of it representing members of the community connected. Personally I think it would make a better tray icon than the ball.
I agree.
Title: Re: Avast symbol is very nice, but what is it?
Post by: Lisandro on June 21, 2011, 09:44:11 PM: On contrary, I love the ball... Ten years side by side with it. It takes part of my daily life. Keep it there :)
Title: Re: Avast symbol is very nice, but what is it?
Post by: JuninhoSlo on June 21, 2011, 09:55:00 PM: Quote from: pk on June 21, 2011, 11:12:07 AM
It's Kenny from South Park.

;D lol ;D
Title: Re: Avast symbol is very nice, but what is it?
Post by: Mayflower on June 21, 2011, 09:58:58 PM: I like the tray icon ball in orange and the new type "a".

Mush less stressing for the eyes than many other logos.

Same colour as Firefox logo in the upper left. :)
Title: Re: Avast symbol is very nice, but what is it?
Post by: Coolmario88 on June 21, 2011, 10:28:38 PM: Quote from: pk on June 21, 2011, 11:12:07 AM
It's Kenny from South Park.
LOL! ;D ;D ;)
Title: Re: Avast symbol is very nice, but what is it?
Post by: cnmoore on June 22, 2011, 05:20:41 PM: I do really like the way the ball turns when Avast is doing something behind the scene. It would be hard to turn the amoeba.
Title: Re: Avast symbol is very nice, but what is it?
Post by: scythe944 on June 22, 2011, 06:56:12 PM: Quote from: cnmoore on June 22, 2011, 05:20:41 PM
I do really like the way the ball turns when Avast is doing something behind the scene. It would be hard to turn the amoeba.

Well, it could rotate...
Title: Re: Avast symbol is very nice, but what is it?
Post by: Asyn on June 22, 2011, 07:00:16 PM: Quote from: scythe944 on June 22, 2011, 06:56:12 PM
Quote from: cnmoore on June 22, 2011, 05:20:41 PM
I do really like the way the ball turns when Avast is doing something behind the scene. It would be hard to turn the amoeba.

Well, it could rotate...

And it does rotate.
Someone here has this as avatar. ;)
Title: Re: Avast symbol is very nice, but what is it?
Post by: scythe944 on June 22, 2011, 07:04:50 PM: Well, I think we're talking about the official taskbar icon though :P

Avatars on the forum don't count.
Title: Re: Avast symbol is very nice, but what is it?
Post by: Asyn on June 22, 2011, 07:06:50 PM: Quote from: scythe944 on June 22, 2011, 07:04:50 PM
Well, I think we're talking about the official taskbar icon though :P

Avatars on the forum don't count.

Well, would be just a matter of size.
But I prefer the a-ball anyway.
Title: Re: Avast symbol is very nice, but what is it?
Post by: pk on June 22, 2011, 10:05:12 PM: Quote from: scythe944 on June 22, 2011, 06:56:12 PM
Quote from: cnmoore on June 22, 2011, 05:20:41 PM
I do really like the way the ball turns when Avast is doing something behind the scene. It would be hard to turn the amoeba.

Well, it could rotate...

I think we tried it in avast internal version, but it was so tiny that we couldn't recognize it properly.
Title: Re: Avast symbol is very nice, but what is it?
Post by: Coolmario88 on June 22, 2011, 10:58:24 PM: I found out something if you are on windows 7 and you pin avast to the taskbar it shows the avast icon. if you check the option to use small icons only you see the avast icon looks like the icon in the tray area