Coding Robots » cars http://www.codingrobots.com In bytes we trust Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:33:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 That M on a book http://www.codingrobots.com/blog/2007/09/08/that-m-on-the-book/ http://www.codingrobots.com/blog/2007/09/08/that-m-on-the-book/#comments Sat, 08 Sep 2007 11:56:48 +0000 Dmitry http://blog.codingrobots.com/2007/09/08/that-m-on-the-book/ Soviet Union produced some licensed cars, e.g. licensed from Ford (GAZ) and Fiat (Lada). But a lot of car designs were just the “pirate” rip-offs of Western models. Look here (original car on the left, Soviet rip-off on the right):

Soviet Cars

I believe they actually didn’t copy those cars, it’s just a coincidence. Like when two scientists invent something at the same time without knowing about each other efforts. So yeah, the similar design of those cars is just a coincidence.

OK, I’m kidding! These are clones.

So why am I talking about cars and rip-offs?

Look here:

Mémoires

When I was drawing this icon for Mémoires, I thought it would be cool to have “M” on a book. And, since we have a memoir theme here, of course, it must be made of gold. It must have a fancy font. Yeah, this is how cool books should look like.

Two weeks later I saw this Mori icon:

Mori icon

Holy Dolly!

Dolly the sheep

I realized that I’ve seen this icon before. So it turns out, this thing was in my subconscious mind, and when I decided to draw a book with an “M” on it, I reproduced the Mori icon.

Holy Dolly, Sorry, Mori!

I’m going to replace Mémoires icon for a final release with something else. Maybe, with “Mé” on it? Or maybe just add a pen to this icon? A black one… Oh, and a green book instead of a blue one, maybe? Ha-ha :) Your suggestions?

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