Sunday, September 06, 2009

MOL Alligator

Dawn and I saw this logo of the Mitsui O.S.K. Lines shipping company while en route to San Francisco's De Young Art Museum two weeks ago:


It is cute. Here is the story of how it came to be, from the designer Ryohei Yanagihara: http://www.mol.co.jp/yanagihara-e/library/library2.html

The company has a selection of historical promotional posters here: http://www.mol.co.jp/poster-e.shtml

Image courtesy of http://www.tikaro.com/2008/05/holy-grail-tshirt-quest-mitsui.html

Futher detail: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsui_O.S.K._Lines
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2 comments:

  1. Stepford Mombot11:46

    Ha! We are sitting at a train crossing in Naples Idaho and my son saw the MOL Alligator logo and was all excited so I had to google it. Thank you for the info.
    Lori

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  2. iokevins12:21

    You are very welcome :o)

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