An Observation
Posted by Matt Johnson | 2008-05-03 23:08:03
A growing trend I'm seeing is in the way design companies are naming themselves. I spent 5 minutes looking on Design Meltdown for design companies and came up with this list:
- gate679
- since79
- ale3006
- stage5studios
- eighty4
- foan82
- 37signals
- 350designs
- reservoir34
- test1studios
- 3plumes
- k4lab
- 123buero
- default001
- 82mm
- twoxfour
- projekt2
- newark1
- mono-1
- lingua74
- 78records
Notice the pattern? What's up with the random numbers in a designer's domain name? Who started that weird trend? My favorite has to be eighty4. It's the hardest number to spell and you also have to remember which part is not spelled out. Try telling someone to go to that site over the phone! Too bad everyone can't have a cool name like Satchamo ;)