Monday, Car Show Edition

Re: Monday, Car Show Edition

If I fly right to the answer will you give me my props?

Tommy

Answer to one and another

Tommy is flying high.. BMW's logo is a stylized propellor reflecting its history as a aircraft manufacturer. Here�s another. What car is represented by this logo description?

"Gu. A bend chequy, ar. and az. betw. a Buck's head erazed in chief, and a cross couped and pierced, or, in base."

Re: Answer to other

I tried to find a logo for a tool company but Stanley has been done to death and two of my favorites from Rockwell, well they sort of gave up. Logo design plays a huge part in the perception of a company by the customer, but in the last ten years has been largely lost in the disposable society.

ANSWER to second part: The car is a Buick. Here is how the Buick logo shield was developed. The official line is in the mid 1930s, a General Motors Styling researcher, Ralph Pew, found a description of the ancestral arms of the Scottish Buick family -- then spelled Buik -- in an 1851 edition of Burke's Heraldry in the Detroit Public Library. The description, not accompanied by a picture, was interpreted as a red shield with a checkered silver and azure (light purplish blue) diagonal line running from the upper left corner to lower right, an antlered deer head with a jagged neckline in the upper right corner of the shield and a gold cross in the lower left corner. The cross had a hole in the center with the red of the shield showing through.

In 1937, this is how Buick interpreted the above: "Gu" means gule (red), which is the color of the field. "A bend" refers to the diagonal bend from the upper left corner to the lower right. "Chequy" means checkered, referring to the design on the bend. "Ar." means argent (silver) and "az." means azure (blue), giving the colors of the checks on the bend. "Betw. a Buck's head erazed in chief, and a cross couped and pierced, or, in base" indicates the course of the bend between the buck's head in the upper right corner of the shield ("chief") and the cross in the lower left corner of the shield. The term "erazed" refers to the jagged, broken edge of the buck's neck. "Couped" refers to the smooth edges of the cross; and "pierced" to the round perforation of it, through which the red color of the field is shown. the rest of the history and why there are three shields now can be found at:http://www.trishield.com/History/logos.shtml

Wow Gary....

from one extreme (BMW) to the other (Buick). Good trivia entry today!