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Dan Rubin's SuperfluousBanter

Suffering from chronic idiocy since 1977

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New Logo, New Name

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I’ve been putting a lot of thought into this site over the last few months, and my “per­sonal brand” if you will, and I’ve come to the real­iza­tion that peo­ple have a dif­fi­cult time spelling the name of this site. To help make it eas­ier on every­one, I’ve decided to change the name to “Super­flu­ous­Bits”—I fig­ure that should solve most of the spelling prob­lems with my URL.

To go along with that change, I’ve revised the logo a bit, giv­ing my spi­ral mark a lit­tle more impor­tance, and sur­round­ing it in a frame that focuses more atten­tion on the spi­ral shape and the “sb”. Over­all, it gives the site a more “branded” feel, and I’m very happy with it.

My only regret is that I didn’t announce this sooner, as it seems a few other peo­ple have also launched redesigned logos today as seen in this Flickr pool.

Update: It seems as though legal action may be taken against a list of design­ers.

This item was posted by Dan Rubin on Sunday, April 1st, 2007.

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14 comments on “New Logo, New Name”

  1. Posted by Luke Dorny on Sunday, April 1st, 2007.

    Yes!!!
    I for one couldn’t spell ‘bantr”, er, “ban­tar”, er, what­ev­er… for the life of me!
    This change makes it eas­ier to remem­ber where i see all the cool stuff!

  2. Posted by Anton on Sunday, April 1st, 2007.

    Oh dear!

  3. Posted by Cindy Li on Sunday, April 1st, 2007.

    I like this. I always thought your name was a bit on the long side. :P

  4. Posted by Dale Cruse on Sunday, April 1st, 2007.

    Orig­i­nal!

  5. Posted by Caleb on Sunday, April 1st, 2007.

    I love the new logo! Its very sim­ple and a bit interesting.

  6. Posted by Shawn Grimes on Sunday, April 1st, 2007.

    Although it was a plea­sure meet­ing you at SXSW Mr. Rubin, I’m afraid I’m going to have to let my law­ers con­tact you about your theft of my logo!

  7. Posted by Jooel on Sunday, April 1st, 2007.

    lol — good april fools ;)

  8. Posted by Fub on Sunday, April 1st, 2007.

    Nice new identity!

  9. Posted by Ian Smith on Sunday, April 1st, 2007.

    I think the lawyers had a very busy day… if thy were work­ing. I guess it WAS Sunday… :)

  10. Posted by Paul Stamatiou on Monday, April 2nd, 2007.

    ROFL, that sim­plebits link just made my day.

  11. Posted by Jeff Brown on Monday, April 2nd, 2007.

    HA! What a mess for poor Dan.

    It is silly that some­one who has done noth­ing wrong can do so lit­tle to gain, at least acknowl­edg­ment, of what is right­fully his.

  12. Posted by Dan Braghis on Monday, April 2nd, 2007.

    Now this is what I call an epi­demic of re-branding :)

  13. Posted by Paul Grunt on Tuesday, April 10th, 2007.

    The pro­lif­er­a­tion of super­flu­ous remarks to curly logo brand­ing deface­ment con­tin­ues… or ends here.

  14. Posted by esrcee on Wednesday, May 16th, 2007.

    I’ve been look­ing for your site for years, ban­ter isnt the issue super­flu­ous is. :P