Logo bashing

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#TIA – We confess to a professional interest in logos, which may explain while we offer a catnip on the subject. 

A new logo is catnip for commentators. With every brandmark update comes a barrage of memes and graphic buffoonery from amateur design critics racing to outpun each other:

Graphic designer Michael Bierut, who’s often on the receiving end of these hot takes, characterizes the phenomenon as “drive-by shootings punctuated by the occasional lynch mob conducted by anonymous people with the depth of barroom philosophers and the attention span of fruit flies.”

Read more at Quartz