Related: From Idea to Icon: 50 Years of the Floppy DiskĪfter news came that Microsoft had paid big bucks for a new logo design in 1987 (see below), pranksters Hans Spiller and Dave Norris at Microsoft distributed a memo and a pin-on button reading "Save the Blibbet." But love for the Blibbet apparently ran deeper than just pranks in the company. Microsoft used the Blibbet prominently in corporate signage and watermarks on its stationary. The stylized "O" in the logo, which is somewhat evocative of the hole in a 5.25" floppy disk, came to be called " the Blibbet." Others nicknamed it "the Death Star" after computerized graphic designs featured in Star Wars (1977). After only two years with the "heavy metal" logo, Simon Daniels went back to the drawing board and returned with a more conservative design based on the ITC Avant Garde Gothic Demi Bold typeface.
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