I love analyzing different brand’s logos, but here’s an interesting look into the color choices of certain brand names. Color has a huge effect on the recognition of a logo and brand name. We’d be hard pressed to not thing of Coke-cola when looking at something that’s red with white highlights (*cough*Santa Clause*cough*). We wouldn’t accept the GAP logo unless it was in its trademark blue box.

Here’s a look at how the different companies use color to distinguish themselves. Also, being the info-graphic lover I am, this is a graphical representation of where logos fall on the light spectrum. Apparently blue is a popular color.

My thoughts exactly.

Here’s a great chart/graph from the popular comic XKCD

It shows all the different character interactions across the span several movies. The Lord of the Rings and Star Wars trilogy certainly had some time put into them and are pretty cool. The last two are more of the punchline of the comic, being hilarious, but only if you’ve seen 12 Angry Men, which most people have, or Primer, which most people haven’t. Note: Primer deals with extensive time-travel.

Also, the alt-text, which is important for XKCD fans is: “In the LotR map, up and down correspond LOOSELY to northwest and southeast respectively.”

I always enjoy stuff like this. Graphs without numbers and dots are always fun.

This shows what a percentage of films were of certain genres over 100 years. Its interesting to see how the film industry has changed, and also how it has stayed the same. While there’s been a pretty consistent amount of drama, comedy and adventure films, we can see exactly where westerns died out, and porn started to ravage the film world.

Also, for the first decade of the commercial film industry, you can see how almost 70% of the films produced were short films, which makes sense when the world was still getting use to the idea. Some other things to notice are the spikes in the Crime genre, the eve of Horror films, and the few years that westerns tried to make a comeback.