(via Photo by marissamayer • Instagram)

“One of our new Yahoo!s Andrew was really bugged by the registered trademark symbol at the end of our logo; he’s gone on a mission removing all the R’s from our site and our campus. This is one on the random R’s we pulled off a wall :)” -Marissa Mayer

A small thing but a huge signal for employees working at Yahoo. I remember when one of the corporate overlords forced Flickr marketing to include not just “from Yahoo!” into the logo but also included the registered R to both the Flickr and Yahoo logos. A stupid request liked this cost the design lead hours of back and forth between the Flickr team and the corporate masters. High-res

(via Photo by marissamayer • Instagram)

One of our new Yahoo!s Andrew was really bugged by the registered trademark symbol at the end of our logo; he’s gone on a mission removing all the R’s from our site and our campus. This is one on the random R’s we pulled off a wall :)” -Marissa Mayer

A small thing but a huge signal for employees working at Yahoo. I remember when one of the corporate overlords forced Flickr marketing to include not just “from Yahoo!” into the logo but also included the registered R to both the Flickr and Yahoo logos. A stupid request liked this cost the design lead hours of back and forth between the Flickr team and the corporate masters.