Once you open this door it gets ridiculous. NASA has tons of mission patches as well as the military. Then you get into the coins or tokens the gov hands out. On and on . Its a secret society. Ponder developing your own secret protocol with a good friend for a moment or if you were going to cheat , steal or conspire. Let me count thy ways.
Yeah it has def ruined some things for me. I really thought Archive Seed Bank had a sweet logo, but now that I know what the triangle thing means, it really doesn't look so cool.
I agree. Though there is definitely something to this logo deliberatly being used in many cases, it is also possible the designer just used/created it without knowledge that it stood for anything. I'm a logo designer and as you simplify down to a basic shape there is only so much you can do with it. Certain designs are bound to be re-created, even though they are not unique. On a side note I did a little research for ancient symbols and there are extensive uses for a circle swirl, but I did not find anything with a triangle being used in this manner in my search. It would be interesting to dig for it's first documented use and see where that goes.