Amid the re-branding of WPF/E, Silverlight introduced a new name (still with me?), a new website, new theme and probably the most visually prominent, a new logo. Being a (self-proclaimed) designer, this is probably the most interesting of all the changes introduced. It’s hard to put down exactly what the logo is, but it looks something like smokey ribbons enclosed in a sphere-like shape. It’s outright abstract, somewhat blue for Silverlight and reminds me a lot of Strepsils’s logo.
What’s most interesting is how it animates and creates new variations of the same logo as demonstrated in the website showreel. Here’s a compilations of the Silverlight logo animating and creating new variations. Some of them I think even look better than the original!
It’s not even worth guessing what the ‘loading animation’ for the release-version of Silverlight might look like. 
Sexual.
yeah… sexy; viagra smoke
What the hell are you guys smoking?
Smurfs!
They good?
Is that not the PDC 2005 music in the background of that showreel, only remixed to sound cooler.
Check about half-way down this page http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/winvista_roadtogold_02.asp and have a listen.
@Michael Mc
I was going to say the same thing. You beat me to it!
Might want to mention this:
Microsoft PlayReady content-access technology delivers a single solution for digital rights management support on both Windows-based computers and Macintosh computers for content providers (coming in Fall 2007).
There are also some nice backgrounds on the downloads page: http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/downloads.aspx
Fairly easy to remove the Silverlight branding too, if you so fancy: they put the logo on a solid color background
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I loved the music, too.
Microsoft’s been using it for a while now, probably part of their Longhorn media archives. The teaser page for the (then) upcoming new Windows Marketplace used a variation of it as well.
Anybody got a clue what is the song or the artist or any info?
Microsoft is trying to be cool – with shabby results for me. Insofar Sliverlight logo looks fresh and somehow Web 2.0 Pro (lol) – video is awful. I like blue, but i dont wanna live in flat, glassy world without walls and horizons
. Ah, and Tom Cruise in Minority Report is faster in managing windows ;P.
But, Silverlight would be good alternative for Flash
Im in love; Apple iPod ad with The Fratellis is ~~wheeyaah lol.
End of transmission; Smurfs are good and sweet and so-oh fresh; sorry for english guys ;p.
@sb.net: He he, sorry.
Will MS rebrand WPF now? Maybe back to “Avalon” or what about “Silverlight/Somewhere”? ;P
Does anyone see a similarity between the buddy list (around 1:00) and the folder browser in Iron Man?
I’m late to this discussion—but your site was first in the Google search for “Silverlight Logo”. Ya know, as a [self-proclaimed] designer, I gotta say it’s interesting, but not really a logo. I can’t even imagine trying to reproduce this thing at 1/2″ on a black and white sticker. But I’m not even sure it _needs_ a logo.
It looks like an animation of electron decoherence to mee…
Look at about 5:30 in this video: http://www.ted.com/talks/joann_kuchera_morin_tours_the_allosphere.html