Fantastic article. A total must.

Seven rings make no sense if we want to convey unity. Seven seas is a western oversimplification born in from an era of conquest. This cannot define earth.

The background cannot be blue (ocean) if the ambition lies in space exploration. The background can only be black or white to put earth in a cosmological context.

The symbol cannot be easily drawn from memory.

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Amazing

Charging for small website production is a dead end for small and medium companies. That doesn't mean design is going to die. They are going to put more money on content and marketing and less on web/app infrastructure.

It happened to me some years ago when I got too much into AS3. I think that putting too much time into knowing solutions makes your mind focus on feasibility and production. Knowing less gives you the naiveté that helps you think about "what if" without production worries. Then, once you got the solution you can get together with developers and they're gonna hate you but the idea is already there and that is a good thing. Wearing the production and design hats at the same time can definitely be a bad thing.