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Via GoodPeople.
Gary Anderson (right) and his 1970 design for the classic recycle symbol.
Elsewhere:
Who designed the recycling symbol? on The Logo Factor
Look before you bin it, on Logo Design Love
Recycling symbol, on Wikipedia
Taiwan’s recycle symbol, designer unknown
Comments
6/10 for me, couple guessed right, couple guessed wrong.
Some are pretty specific to the UK, I still got 7/10.
6/10 guessed on a couple…
Ooh, another hit! Nearly everyone gets the green point symbol wrong. I think it should be done away with. It’s misleading and means virtually nothing in the UK.
I guess I’m “Box Fresh” 9/10 . . . I had never seen the “green dot” symbol before.
I think I need to brush up on my recycling symbol knowledge.
Wow, I didn’t know David Spade designed the recycling symbol.
@Jordan, those were my thoughts exactly! Haha! Glad to see I’m not alone.
Way too Eurocentric. Most of those symbols mean nothing in North America.
@CR, I disagree. Many of the very same symbols in the test are used in North America, you just need to look harder at the packaging to find them. But regardless of that, I think you’re missing the point, there’s a deeper significance to the test…It’s not so much about where these symbols are employed, rather about how effectively the symbol translates across boarders. I enjoyed the one’s I hadn’t seen before, as it allowed me to see if the mark was effectively doing its job without having any preconceived notion of what it was.
^^ A BBC quiz, Eurocentric?
I got 8, but I’ve looked up the green dot before, wondering whether it actually meant ‘recyclable’.