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\"New!Adam laments the gratuitous (if that’s the right word for something that cost them $20MM) change in the UPS logo<\/a> from a simple, straightforward design to something that’s all 3D and swooshy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I don’t think the new logo <\/a>is all that bad, but I think it’s pretty trivial next to the old one<\/a>. Though I guess nobody uses twine any more, either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Adam laments the gratuitous (if that’s the right word for something that cost them $20MM) change in the UPS logo from a simple, straightforward design to something that’s all 3D…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-business"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":28060,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/31\/and-the-winner-of-todays-gratuitous-jerk-award.html","url_meta":{"origin":3728,"position":0},"title":"And the winner of today's Gratuitous Jerk award","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 31-May-12 2:07pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Really? 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