Re: [OT] To belgians on this list
On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 19:35:46 +0000, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 05:13:58PM +0000, Jack Malmostoso wrote:
> > Hello list,
> >
> > sorry for the OT content.
> > I was walking in Brussels this afternoon and noticed the billboard for a
> > film festival that will soon take place in town:
> >
> > http://www.ellestournent.be/
> >
> > Doesn't that swirl look familiar?
>
> It's mirrored. And also a bit rotated.
>
> There's a local gift shop near by where I live that that is called
> "corners" (in Hebrew), and its logo is a swirl that is exactly like
> Debian's , only it is mirrored, and purple. That swirl is that wrapped
> in a rectangle shape.
>
> When I asked the owner of the shop how did they come by such a logo, she
> told me that this was something a graphics designer chose for her.
This kind of design has been around for a while, on many different
length scales:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logarithmic_spiral
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