Posted By
Chicken
on 2009-09-13
13:34:29
 |  Re: Plus/4 tshirt
Yeah, touchy topic... Here in Germany (for very good reasons) several symbols (when displayed out of historical context) are also forbidden/unconstitutional. Same goes for anything closely resembling those symbols.
I didn't know that the "red star" is banned in Hungary, though it's very understandable considering the history (especially 1956). So some tourist wearing a retro-(not as in retro computing)-soviet-chic "red star" t-shirt might behave very offending without even knowing.
"Accidently" using parts of existing symbols that stand for something else happens all the time. A while back I noticed the center of this flag...
http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:KKK.svg&filetimestamp=20080809140945
and thought about this rightaway:
http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:Vodafone.svg&filetimestamp=20080213230105
I like the cursor cross on the plus/4 and used it in some sketches for logos I did, too, because it is so "iconesque". And I would never associate it with anything other than the plus/4 (not because I'm ignorant...).
You might align the keys horizontally (e.g. up, right, down, left), less iconesque and ppl might say "looks like play station" but you don't have the "cross" then.
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