Do we have any reason to suppose that Amazon will care?
If they've made no moves to either continue the site or sell it, it's hard to see how it would be in their interest to spend time and money protecting whatever IP resides in the name.
Do we have any reason to suppose that Amazon will care?
If they've made no moves to either continue the site or sell it, it's hard to see how it would be in their interest to spend time and money protecting whatever IP resides in the name.
It’s still their IP, and they will have an army of lawyers dedicated to protecting all Amazon owned IP, bar none. The cost to them of rinsing this place through the courts is minimal after all - and who knows what someone might want to do with the brand ten, twenty, thirty years from now?
@lefteye has written:It has a font size change, to increase the lowercase size, and I added the blue to further differentiate the revived message. Further tweaks I made just distracted from it's simplicity, but of course it could be evolved in perspective and rendered in 3D with shine etc.
I like this idea, it's far enough from the original (which was all-uppercase) and close enough to maintain the historic correlation. The colour scheme is also good IMO.
I like it too. Maybe we should have a contest, between logos - not people. I'll think about it.
I must say I share the interest of domain name research with some of you. I just got:
photogs.info (but there are still photogs.biz and photogs.pro available for you)
photoing.org, .info, .biz, .pro (but there are still photoed.info, .biz, .pro for you)
I own dprenewed.com if you want it.
and dpevolved.com is still available (£1.95+VAT for the first year)
Alan
I own dprenewed.com if you want it.
and dpevolved.com is still available (£1.95+VAT for the first year)
Alan
And don't forget dpreloaded.com (as in "Matrix Reloaded", "Age of Empires III: Reloaded")...
@Mbruinsma has written:Some tinkering by me.
Or dpEvolved?
takes me back (not necessarily in a bad way) to my Olympus E-300. Otherwise called the Evolt, which at the time only a few knew the E stood for Evolution.
In early adverts was launched as an Evolution, the Evolution-300.
Anyway back to your suggestion, immediately I think it's too long. Long is ok it's really worthwhile, evolution isn't. Also the pick and mix font styles are a mess, based on minor ideas of relevance that are unnecessary in 'brand' name/logo (just being honest to not waste time). Sorry.
The shorter, simpler and easier to say (not being a tongue twister requiring slow speech), the better.
dpREV is still ok.
At the head of this thread I suggested dpFORUMS, this has now largely (-they added the r back in) been taken by the other site. Thinking back on this, 'Forums' can sound fusty, like libraries can be, or manilla folders, kinda boring. REV has verve, it's going places.
I'd go back to what I said just earlier, and make sure the logo was simple (maybe slick) and memorable.
Point A is whether we would ever want dpREV, or are we 100% on dpREVIVED, or something else. I like dpREV - even the look of it, it's already etched into my brain - and didn't take much storage space up!
Anyway back to your suggestion, immediately I think it's too long.
I agree, but I only wanted to see the effect, because even my family members don’t know what DP stands for.
Also the pick and mix font styles are a mess, based on minor ideas of relevance that are unnecessary in 'brand' name/logo (just being honest to not waste time). Sorry.
Don’t worry, the honest opinion is appreciated.
But, it is not a mix of font styles, different sizes yes; I used Helvetica by the way. The abbreviation of DPReview is most commonly ‘DPR’, this would also happen with DPRevived, I presume. Therefore - I think - revived should be written in lower case. But then it ends with a ‘d’ that has a pole sticking out. So, I have put the ‘d’ in upper case [ ‘D’ ], and resized it. Also by putting it in oblique [ ‘D’ ] gives a twist that someone can read it as ‘revive’ and / or ‘revived’ at the same time. Just thinking out loud, and English is not my native language.
The shorter, simpler and easier to say (not being a tongue twister requiring slow speech), the better.
dpREV is still ok.
At the head of this thread I suggested dpFORUMS, this has now largely (-they added the r back in) been taken by the other site. Thinking back on this, 'Forums' can sound fusty, like libraries can be, or manilla folders, kinda boring. REV has verve, it's going places.
I'd go back to what I said just earlier, and make sure the logo was simple (maybe slick) and memorable.
Point A is whether we would ever want dpREV, or are we 100% on dpREVIVED, or something else. I like dpREV - even the look of it, it's already etched into my brain - and didn't take much storage space up!
‘DPrev’ definitely doesn’t cut it for me. Now your twist to see it as ‘dpREV’ is visual way better, but for most (new) people it would not be clear, REV… what REV? Revolution? But if people don’t like ‘revived’ then maybe ‘evolved’ could be an option.
My final thought is that some discussion on this theme, will yield better end results.
You may find this hard to believe, but my employers (a prestigious British university) blocked “DPR” on suspicion of it being pornography - and it took me early a year to get the block removed. The lesson seems to be that anything beginning’DP’ might be problematic for anyone wishing to read the site whilst at work.
LMAO
The first hit on google for DP, is Dorothy Perkins.
Dorothy Perkins is an online British women's fashion brand based in the United Kingdom.
Mixing fonts is BAD, this is one of the first lessons in design school.
There are rules in the world of typography.
“Everyone can recognize good design, few can achieve it.”
My dear old Prof. Doc Williams.
Still think DPRevived is 100% a better name than any of those suggested so far. “DPEvolved” does not trip off the tongue at all, and sounds super up itself, lacking all the wordplay of the former.
Still think DPRevived is 100% a better name than any of those suggested so far. “DPEvolved” does not trip off the tongue at all, and sounds super up itself, lacking all the wordplay of the former.
I'l be happy as long as we don't end up with DPRaved. ; }
@Threaded has written:Still think DPRevived is 100% a better name than any of those suggested so far. “DPEvolved” does not trip off the tongue at all, and sounds super up itself, lacking all the wordplay of the former.
I'l be happy as long as we don't end up with DPRaved. ; }
I'll go and register it, along with DPRaving ;-)
You may find this hard to believe, but my employers (a prestigious British university) blocked “DPR” on suspicion of it being pornography - and it took me early a year to get the block removed. The lesson seems to be that anything beginning’DP’ might be problematic for anyone wishing to read the site whilst at work.
Maybe it's a British thing, or maybe I've led a cloistered life, but I'm afraid I don't get the connection between "DP" and porn.
Care to elaborate?
@WolfsHead has written:You may find this hard to believe, but my employers (a prestigious British university) blocked “DPR” on suspicion of it being pornography - and it took me early a year to get the block removed. The lesson seems to be that anything beginning’DP’ might be problematic for anyone wishing to read the site whilst at work.
Maybe it's a British thing, or maybe I've led a cloistered life, but I'm afraid I don't get the connection between "DP" and porn.
Care to elaborate?
I’d say to google it, but probably a bad idea 😂
@Threaded has written:Thinking about this, personally if I was Amazon I’d be unhappy about “DPRev”. That sounds awfully like just a shortened version of DPReview, and could easily be a nickname for the current site (perhaps for some it already is). DPRevived has the advantage of being clearly a different word, not just a version of the same thing.
Do we have any reason to suppose that Amazon will care?
If they've made no moves to either continue the site or sell it, it's hard to see how it would be in their interest to spend time and money protecting whatever IP resides in the name.
This is interesting. I just did a worldwide trademark search:
@WolfsHead has written:You may find this hard to believe, but my employers (a prestigious British university) blocked “DPR” on suspicion of it being pornography - and it took me early a year to get the block removed. The lesson seems to be that anything beginning’DP’ might be problematic for anyone wishing to read the site whilst at work.
Maybe it's a British thing, or maybe I've led a cloistered life, but I'm afraid I don't get the connection between "DP" and porn.
Care to elaborate?
www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=DP
Scroll down until you see it...
@SilvanBromide has written: @WolfsHead has written:You may find this hard to believe, but my employers (a prestigious British university) blocked “DPR” on suspicion of it being pornography - and it took me early a year to get the block removed. The lesson seems to be that anything beginning’DP’ might be problematic for anyone wishing to read the site whilst at work.
Maybe it's a British thing, or maybe I've led a cloistered life, but I'm afraid I don't get the connection between "DP" and porn.
Care to elaborate?
www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=DP
Scroll down until you see it...
Okay, thanks -- I see a couple of candidates for porn references scrolling through there. So I'll now consider myself 'edumacated' on the subject! : o