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yastyjalan, new ground
Sunday, May 16, 2010 18:28

ive always found the swastika could be the most beautiful thing in the world, i fell in love with Charles Manson some time last year, and i loved his views on hate and love. the swastika brought both love and hate, an ironic cymbol witch can be takeb\n anyway.... pretty as a swastika
lisa whittington, school
Thursday, September 17, 2009 02:26

Swastika is a lovely symbol with a lovely original meaning. Unfortunately it cannot be used anymore.
Ricardo Esteves
Tuesday, June 16, 2009 02:02

As information about human history is more widely available, we are made to recognize the varying meanings of the suavastika. Because of its association with death and oppression, it is now a symbol of the duality of man even more effective than Pvt. Joker's "Born to Kill" peace sign.
Tedwood Richard Strong, OurNewSkin Illustration
Sunday, February 22, 2009 22:38

The swastika is an ancient Buddhist and Hindu symbol representing the Law or the wheel of Dharma (spiritual laws of truth.) It is usually represented as turning in the counter clockwise direction opposite of the clockwise direction shown in the Nazi swastika. The scriptures often describe Buddha as "turning the wheel of Dharma (or Law)" as equivalent to teaching The Dharma. Too bad Hitler made an otherwise peaceful symbol into a symbol of evil and murder. Nonetheless, it is a powerful symbol no matter what it represents
randy owens
Friday, February 15, 2008 08:36

A symbol is great when it can be achieved with simple strokes... This is powerful, the Nazis unfortunately 'highjacked' it. Someone below mentioned Israel... I think of the Star of David, another powerful mark (like Christianity, Islam, etc...) Predjudices/Hate RIP
martin, -
Wednesday, October 04, 2006 01:47

the swastika has always been a symbol of power. whether it be spiritual power or political power. it stands for power all the same.
Jake
Monday, September 11, 2006 07:47

The Swatiska is the symbol used to describe graveyards on japanese maps. It is in widespread use at buddhist temples in Japan and Korea. Just to keep some information in here.
Martin
Monday, August 28, 2006 16:21

I'm Jewish, and truly love the simplicity of the Swastika as an image, but the associations we hold with the Swastika means that it could not be reintroduced into society, positively, for a very long time (if ever)
AdMan
Tuesday, August 15, 2006 17:24

The symbol of the swas is by far from passing.
tom winsor, mushcorp
Thursday, August 10, 2006 17:18

The Swastika is a really beautifull "logo". It's a sign witch stands for the never ending, the creative mind, evolution and progress. So bad the nazi's used this magnificent symbol. This really killed it.
Jasper, -
Wednesday, August 09, 2006 19:20

As more time passes, it will once again become a spiritually beautiful symbol. WWII is still so recent, it is like yesterday and we still hang on to it.
Kizzye, OGbeats
Sunday, June 04, 2006 06:30

ITs is a symbol of Thor. Sacred. What about the Chrstian Cross? How many have been tortured , raped ,murdered , Genacide?? Should the cross be a symbol of hate?
PWF
Tuesday, May 16, 2006 06:22

I've always liked the simple beauty of the swastika and felt guilty for doing so. I hold no right wing beliefs and just love the symbol.
AC
Tuesday, April 25, 2006 00:49

I'm sorry if I cause anyone offece but this is not a logo it is a symbol of evil. It represents ignorance,hatred genocide I could go on. I don't give 2 hoots for what it used to represent or it's apearance as art. The fact is that the swastika now represents mans evil towards his fellow man and that is something we should never forget nor allow to happen again. It can never become again what it once was.\the Swastika like the nazi's should be buried forever
JOHN COPSEY
Saturday, April 01, 2006 01:26

There is only one swastika = good fortune, sunrise and life etc. The anti-clockwise is called Sauwastika = bad luck sunset and death etc. The Greeks called it Crux gammata or gamma (made of four Cyrillic G’s). Although the pictogram is big in the east -- the symbol been in the west since the stone age -- even the Jews used it.
Kristian Möller
Thursday, July 21, 2005 19:45

Well, anyone who says this isn't a logo, but a symbol needs to A: Read "Marks of Excellence" by Per Mollerup, then B: Check out the CBS eye which is a reappropriated quaker symbol. Comprehensive and rigidly enforced branding (which this "company" had no problem with) can shift the meaning of a symbol and once that happens... bing. Anyway logo/symbol, it's all symantics. Time for some Wittgenstein...
Gary Schmidt, Tell
Wednesday, July 20, 2005 22:30

The swastika is still one of the most widely used symbols today, (ok, not in Europe or the USA) its only the nazis who stopped using it in 1945.
Miles
Friday, July 01, 2005 15:46

Very cultural symbol. Very positive in east Asia before 20th century. An indian beer carries the symbol on the label. I'd say its a typographic masterpiece. But God's wrath may come upon the souls that misuse(d) it.
Thomas H., An Ad Agency in Hamburg
Monday, October 04, 2004 18:18

The swastika was - originally - used by buddhists I believe. It's actually meant to symbolize peace or rest or something wise. The logo itself is very well done, only the history it carries with it is tained. It should not be touched again, really. That would not only be hurtful but also a message that history is to be forgotton - which is always a bad message.
Sebas "Howling" van den Brink, Iflogic digital design & art
Saturday, October 02, 2004 16:07

Not a logo, but one of the best symbols ever. It encompasses it all...movement, interaction, the directions meeting at the center, outward energy pulled into a vortex...a very powerful symbol. Alas, for the modern world it's a goner, but I still try to slip it in now and then, and certainly talk about it at any opportunity.
Maggie Macnab
Tuesday, August 10, 2004 06:01

Indeed, not one of the best logos I have seen, but one the best implemented organizational identities of the 20th century. The aesthetic values and balance are awesome, it's a pitty it got associated with Nazi's and that even now it generates "visceral" hate.
Marius Ursache
Saturday, May 08, 2004 15:29

I think the controversy between the swastika is really a bad thing and I believe that it should be that the swastika should have the true meaning back with the four L's and original meanings love luck happiness and good being. And I believe that if someone wants to have a swastika outside of there resturaunt for a good meaning they shouldnt be harrassed about it sincerly a friend of the swastika!
cayla
Thursday, May 06, 2004 15:02

Most excellent logo, possibly the uber-logo, graphic, black and white, harmonious, balanced, symetrical, negative and positive, dynamic, wheels turning, industrias, effecient, easy to make - you could make a potatoe stamp of it in 5mins - if the coca cola logo is the most recognisable logo in the world, this is surely the most emotive and evocative. It has really become aggressive through association though.Association, association, tv programmes, films, it has been marketed so damn well, much more so than probably any other symbol barring a networks own logo . Whatever about the hijacking of an ancient symbol of peace and harmony, the irony, those who did hijack it knew what they were doing and by God it worked so well!
I am not a Nazi
Wednesday, April 07, 2004 16:47

Pefect as a logo, but terrible as a post1945 symbol. I wish the Swastika took back its ancient meaning.
Alex
Sunday, February 22, 2004 10:06

esta no murió ni ahí
Sebastián
Saturday, February 14, 2004 18:36

Violence ...the first thing I associate. It´s difficult to see the positive aspects on it. But the more I look at it, the more I get the brilliancy, that hides behind this graphic work.
Andres Manrique Zuniga, andantino
Tuesday, January 27, 2004 15:10

To the fellar further down... Yes, Carlsberg still has two temple-signs on sheilds/wheels with their giant stone elephants near the entrance, however, they are turned the other way around....
dabitch, http://ad-rag.com
Saturday, December 27, 2003 21:28

I think the the logo have long gone... but the spirit of it is still alive...
KCob, Butter
Saturday, December 20, 2003 04:52

The Swastika is still displayed by Buddhists in Asia. I have seen it used oriented in both directions. If you see it on a restaurant sign, it signifies that you can et a vegetarian meal there. I hope that the forces of peace and harmony reclaim this symbol and bury the Nazi-associated stigma that has marred it.
sam
Friday, December 19, 2003 22:39

In fact the swastika is still widely used throughout East Asia (although often in the mirror image form) to denote the location of a temple on maps and road markers. Many young people in East Asia have no undestanding of the Westerners' visceral association of this image with Nazism.
mshray
Friday, December 19, 2003 18:41

I stand corrected. The original swastika was not anti-clockwise but clockwise.
Supreet Singh, Trilogy
Friday, December 19, 2003 06:36

The original swastika was anti-clockwise and a square (not a rhombus). It was this symbol that menat harmony, peace and associate with spirituality according to ancient Hindu traditions.
Supreet Singh, Trilogy
Friday, December 19, 2003 06:33

All I can say is I hope to be able to create a mark and identity system that can carry a sinlge message as far and for as long as this eternal mark has. Hopefully, the message won't be Hate.
un_mestizo
Tuesday, December 16, 2003 16:28

Probably the most recognized symbol of the 20th Century. Funny how so much emotion is wrapped around such a simple little thing.
Manny del Rosario, BBDO
Tuesday, December 16, 2003 10:00

a lot has been written on the subject (steven heller's excellent book for example) but it is indeed a frighteningly good example of how simple, effective and consistent a logo can be, many lessons to be learned form this one still, leaving gert dumbar's rants about 'corporations' aside...
martin pyper, 'martin'
Thursday, December 11, 2003 20:25

Terrible to say but this symbol was a part of probably the 20th centuries 'best' corporate identity program.
Gian Carlo Costa, Student
Monday, December 08, 2003 09:01

Innocence corrupted. An ancient symbol, traditionally denoting harmony, will now forever be associated with such a perverse ideology.
shane
Friday, December 05, 2003 12:19

I believe the Carlsberg brewery in Copenhagen still displays two giant Swastikas... of course, up until the 1930s this symbol was largely a benign emblem, used to signify good fortune and well being.
Claude Wichmann, Boston
Wednesday, December 03, 2003 18:01