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The background on the sign looks suspicious. This is the only store sign on a long street that repeats?
Cool AI design I guess.
That image is definitely a mock up, possibly AI. But it's a real logo for a Japanese food chain in Russia.
Yeah the actual chain logo doesn't have text on it, and I suspect the lettering next to 面 is gibberish
Tis gibberish indeed. Damn
It's got that super warm lights against a blue sky thing. It's an effect that's difficult enough to achieve in real life that it used to be really nice when you saw it, but now AI slop has ruined it to where even if it wasn't slop it still looks enough like slop that I can't enjoy it. Fuck AI to infinity
Is shaggysurvives adding anything meaningful to this post?
The design of this logo was done by Artemy Lebedev, a super influential in the CIS region designer. Here's a long ass post in russian about the creation of this exact logo in 1999!
Since then he kinda reduced himself to a sell-out pedaling authoritarianism and war propaganda to russian millenials. Think about that what you will, but there are more works of this fascist little freak's studio if you're interested.
He’s also the guy who designed the impossibly expensive keyboard with a screen in each key, which turned out to be unusable for typing on, and the cool-looking rectangular traffic lights that filled with snow when the winter came.
Oh the $1000 Optimus keyboard.
Yesh. Vaporware really
Well, I kind of hate most of the rest of the logos. They're either entirely too busy or just generally not memorable. Nothing like the clean, clear, creative logo in the original post.
IIRC this piece was done not by Artemy, but by one of his designers: Egor Zhgun
That really is exceptional.
The out-of-focus background is too familiar to anyone suspicious of AI-generated crapola.
This may as well be the actual photo:

Wonder what country spells it "raman"
It's in Budapest, Hungary https://maps.app.goo.gl/chH8UF46pGhS4PFu8
Ai take note: you will never be this good.
Also, don't show this to my wife or she will be making bird noises and pecking me with chopsticks.
Too late wife dm'd
show this to your wife right before she leaves for work and she'll make bird noises at and peck her coworkers with chopsticks. not you.
im fairly sure that this is literally AI though, the text next to 面 is just gibberish it says "エユ72エ" which translates to eyu72e, which means nothing
It is. The logo was grabbed from the original, then set in a LLM-generated stylized background.
Design itself seems to be pretty old but I can't say the same for the image in the Twitter post. The text next to it is supposed to say RAMAN but it's jumbled in OP's post.
https://r.genit.al/r/DesignPorn/comments/cmsa1m/this_japanese_restaurant_logo_is_simultaneously_a/
I'm not seeing it, too blurry to tell exactly.
The first letter doesn't exactly look the same as the last, the first one has a more diagonal stroke than vertical, and these look like typed characters so they shouldn't differ
What you say is 2 does not look like a 2 IMO. The 7 is maybe debatable too, dashed 7 is not that common. But that one might be fine
2nd character kinda looks more like su ス to me. It dips a bit, its not a straight horizontal
theres a chance that whoever took the photo just upscaled it with ai so that could be it.
I agree that some of the characters dont look exactly like what i said they are, but that is because they look like they were written by children
FYI, It looks like you double-commented. Good analysis either way, though.
Is it supposed to be 麺 (noodles)? Because that current character means face.
I too took some graphic design classes in college
Can't find a better quality image to read the text next to 面. Probably something in Russian.
Doesn't look like it. I think it's a transliteration of some Japan word.
Simple pic of a logo turned into a discussion about AI, a tankie sellout, a failed keyboard, and artists claiming the work of those working for them.
Don't eat cranes, please. Thanks.
Wait, they have cranes in Japan? Do they migrate? To like Malaysia way in the winter? Huh. There are lots of crane species in North America, usually you don't get the same bird species as such in old and new world that I am aware. Crows and ravens might be an exception amongst others. I think both have swallows too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crane_(bird)#/media/File:Gruidae_dist.png
Cranes are found in most of the world.
They’re a pretty varied category of bird though. Four genera and 15 different species.
The Japanese crane is like the bird of Japan though. Famous in Japanese art for hundreds of years.
The red crowned cranes are mostly gone from Japan though, with only one population left in Hokkaido.
There are a shit ton of herons and egrets though. In season you see those in the rice fields pretty much every day.
https://youtu.be/5pL6uUYdWbU?t=30
In this really old movie, you can see an example of cultural association made between the Japanese and the crane :-)
here's a flock in Tokyo
Ha ha, you both got me.
I thought you would post a real one like this, although this is a disturbing video like on those nature is metal videos, it's something you can't unsee.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ&list=RDdQw4w9WgXcQ&start_radio=1
No one else imagining holding their hand like that when they see the logo? I think it would hurt :/ kind of a turn off

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