The square perspective design just looks out of proportions. Purely on an first impression basis, given a choice to choose between the two, I would choose the one by the MS team. Maybe they tested , and found that people liked the rectangle one better.
Again, why is this nit pick important anyway?
I agree. I feel people are arguing just for the sake of proving they understand perspective better than the design team at Windows. I highly doubt Microsoft only did one version of the logo, there were probably many variations, including some that were perspectively perfect. It looks like Microsoft went with what more people thought was aesthetically pleasing, which is a nice sign from the Windows design team.
That was the first thing I noticed. It's constantly bugging me when looking at it. Makes it feel half 3D and half 2D, like one of those impossible stairs.
if you look at the pentagram design documents [1], the 'bars' aren't meant to be drawn wide enough for the perspective on them to be noticeable. the designer's drawings have all the bars at 1px regardless of the scale of the logo.
Maybe Microsof prefers the modernist horizontal "square": you could put hundreds of those slightly stretched windows side to side to form a horizontal band of windows throughout the whole floor of a building. That is probably the way Microsoft wants to vision Windows' style of adoption.
i guess microsoft has enough money to buy the best designers around. maybe they have an idea or two about perspective and also a couple of ideas about when to break those rules in exchange to something that simply looks better, and this is the case.
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 49.4 ms ] threadI would say that perfectly square windows are just as rare as windows that are wider than they are tall. This is silly.
[1] http://pentagram.com/en/new/2012/02/new-work-microsoft.php