Next week: Jeff Veen has decided to leave Google to "spend more time with his family."

Its always something, isn't it?

next week: Jeff Veen takes 1 week leave time for plastic surgery and face lift

The ugly, childish version matches my Elmer Fudd settings. I'm Feewing Wucky...

Let's hope that Jeff had sufficient class to tell Ruth Kedar first, in person, that he thought her work sucked, before he told the world.

yawn. head of user interface design? what interface? jeff don't fuck with the logo, and if you want to truly be creative and design cool UI's go work somewhere else. But you won't because you probably get a huge rush out of being a big blow hard at events like the one referenced.

Meh. Jeffrey Veen is a good designer, with good taste - OF COURSE he thinks the logo looks ugly - because it does.

Good thing the goog hired him, instead of my fifth grade arts and crafts-teacher who loved the logo and set all her best work in Comic Sans, I say... ;)

mm msybe he needs to work some where like akqa

I don't know... but I like the current simplistic design... like the Nike's swoosh.

Yep, ugly and childish. Kinda like the Simpsons. Must be a drag to have a universally recognized brand worth bazillions of dollars.