I just ran across these old screenshots of an oooooold site I made that scanned the WSJ twitter feed for company names and paired them with company logos.

Forbes has this nice list of the largest private companies along with logos. I'm hung up on the semiotic(?) value of logos. They're a shorthand for a company.

Why do this? I'm not entirely sure... I've been interested in using logos to communicate/represent companies. For example, this political bias chart that uses the logos of media outlets to represent them. app.adfontesmedia.com/chart/intera...

But at the end of the day I have a working font!

I pulled the swoosh graphic from Wikipedia and loaded it into FontForge. Those paths weren't perfect and I had to click around a little to fix them.

A while back I had the idea to create a font of logos of the companies in the Fortune 500.

I dug into it to see how hard it would be and... have a font with a single logo.

TIL the ampersand symbol evolved from the Latin word "et" (means "and"). You can still kind of see the "e" and "t" combined in it. Here's the modern symbol next to an older "et" ligature.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampersand

Just out here visiting landmarks in lidar mode

Sweet, there are LIDAR scans of NYC

I accidentally hit the backtick key while playing around on roadview.planninglabs.nyc/view/-73.988... and BOOM, LIDAR.

No idea what to do with this, but it's cool.

And it looks great. Next step: vectorize with Illustrator.

I kind of got obsessed with tracking down this cool logo I saw as a kid at the Deutsches Museum in Bonn, Germany. I remembered the two figures floating in front of a sea of buttons, switches, and other computer-y things.