2 Logos and A Photo

This post is rather random - just a quick combination of a couple things I've come across on the internet recently. I have two logos to share and then a photo (with a link to more!).

First logo: Blurb. I really like them as a company - they do great photo books. I hadn't even realized that they redesigned their logo until I saw it here. Here's a before and after:

(And I think it was blue before as well - the gray must have been just for oldness effect). I like the redesign a lot. The typography is much better, and I like the proporstions of teh book better as well. It looks more realistic. I had wondered if the type was Gotham or maybe Helvetica, but it appears to be ARS Maquette Pro, a font I hadn't heard of. It is a good typeface, though. Here's a Blurb business card:

Very nice type. I think that's the strong point of the design.

I also recently came across some cool photography. A photographer named Rudiger Nehmzow went up in an airplane and took pictures of clouds from four miles of the ground with no window in between. The concept itself is really cool, and the images are stunning. Here's one, and you can see more here.

Isn't that so astounding? It's so neat to see such realistic pictures of a part of God's creation we don't get to look at from this perspective.

One more thing... another logo! I saw this logo here and thought it was really cool. It's another redesign. I won't show the old logo because I really don't like it, but here's the new one.

It's for Expo 2015, some kind of World's Fair in Italy. I don't really know anything about the event, but this logo is creative and hip. It was the result of a contest, and I'm not so big on design contests all around, but I'm glad that the result was good. I like the overlapping colors - that's a cool technique.

I'd love to know your thoughts on any of these things! :)