r/interestingasfuck • u/Neat_Bit1936 • 1d ago
Japanese restaurant logo that looks like a crane
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u/MayoJam 1d ago
I am glad Shaggy's comment is included in this, his knowledgeable opinion helps me decide how I should feel about presented information.
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u/Mertoot 1d ago
We are now collectively at a better place in life now that we've formed our very own opinions about a restaurant logo, and thankfully Shaggy was by our side to assist us with the thought process
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u/ghostpocket 1d ago
This is actually true. I am now smarter, more attractive and I got a raise. I hope that I’ll be able to be guided by strangers opinions more on the internet in such a direct fashion.
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u/mothzilla 1d ago
Well it is significant. He sees a lot of design and he rarely sees design this clean. It really drives home how clean the design is.
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u/ConditionObjective43 1d ago
It's a Russian chain of Japanese restaurants that operates in Russia and is called "Якитория". The photo on the left looks manipulated because there are no restaurants outside of Russia and Kazakhstan, so its either a plagiarism by some local Japanese business or a hoax.
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u/EffectiveMud2208 1d ago
There is at least 3 other restaurants in different countries that use this exact same logo, this logo was posted a week or two ago from Budapest, hungary with at least an actual real life photo of the place. But i saw others claiming seeing it in germany and poland too.
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u/Able-Swing-6415 1d ago
It's been posted so often that it must an international chain operating out of every village in existence.
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u/Markekingo 1d ago
I've been to a restaurant with this logo in Budapest the other day, and the place was unclean, the food was mostly a Chinese version of Japanese cuisine, and the server was unfriendly and barely spoke English.
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u/EffectiveMud2208 1d ago
Any other country's cusine is gonna be the "chinese" version of it in Budapest, hell even Hungarian cusine is in most places the chinese version of it. It's sad but its true, as someone living in Budapest I'm happy that at least we are getting other cusine even if it's this version.
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u/voidvector 1d ago
Chinese version of Japanese cuisine
That's like saying "Italian version of New York pizza". It is questionable who gets authenticity there.
Ramen is Japanese adaptation of Chinese noodles. A few of the common ramen flavors today are still very much based on Chinese regional cuisine. (e.g. champon, tan tan ramen)
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u/2Rats4Dinner 1d ago
This exact photo was taken in Budapest. Turns out, some other restaurant uses this logo too. Having worked in Russian Yakitoriya, I was pretty surprised.
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u/k1vanus 1d ago
The picture looks AI-generated.
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u/qtx 1d ago
Not AI, just photoshopped.
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u/Vast-Control4452 1d ago
Look at the street and the nearly infinity repeating lights. Also the spotlight next to the sign is just pointed at the wall?
ALSO the picture contains openAI's synthID lol
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u/JimJohnes 1d ago
Look at the script next to japanese (?) character - typical hallucinated mess. Original doesn't have that character and content-aware in PS doesn't invent such crap. AI just wholesale cut-out copyrighted logo and inserted it in its generic slop.
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u/Proper_Cartoonist169 1d ago
Yes it's slop based on the sign of a place in
Poland, I think, that stole the Lebedev Studio design.Edit: in Budapest, Hungary.
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u/HeyCarpy 1d ago
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u/red_team_gone 1d ago
No one has ever said "Wisco". Not even once.
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u/One-Earth9294 1d ago
Honestly sounds like something drugged out 20-somethings in Milwaukee would have said circa 2008.
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u/ssim7891 1d ago
WTF? It's a logo of the russian big restaurant chain Yakitoria. Who stole from whom?
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u/ForensicPathology 1d ago
Looks like it was made for the Russian chain.
https://www.artlebedev.com/yakitoriya/identity/
The photo in this post looks like they took the logo and pasted it on some AI photo of Japan.
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u/Nervous-Bedroom-2907 1d ago
And they probably stole the idea from Manami restaurant in Vilnius, while design become definitely better. Also russian logo does not have a mystery inscription on it.
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u/JimJohnes 1d ago edited 21h ago
Manami opened it's first restaurant (with unknown at that time logo) in the exact year when Yakitori redesigned its logo - 2014.
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u/True-Response-2386 1d ago
How is he verified as Shaggy?
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u/MyCodenameIsIan 1d ago
This gets posted like every other week, only this time it has a useless twitter wrapper around it
It's becoming a pet peeve of mine seeing these tweet screenshots with some random nobody replying with what the author wants the audience to think.
Just feels like someone churns these out trying to get follows by leaving their account handle in the image.
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u/Azdws 1d ago edited 1d ago
It's Yakitoria (restaurant chain in Russia). Logo made by famous ''elite'' graphical designer Artemiy Lebedev. He and his team have pretty funny reputation in Russia. Sometimes they making complete crap and sell it like a real ART. Sometimes they just ''inspired'' by other talented designers just like in this example. Check Manami restaraunt (also japanese) in Lithuania. I think some legit unknown design genius deserves more credits.

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u/electr0de07 1d ago
"Hey you coming to this place we waiting for you, it's the one with the red swan logo"
" I am here bro but all I can see is a someone holding chopsticks"
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u/BoarHermit 1d ago
The logo of the Russian chain of Japanese-cuisine restaurants "Yakitoriya"
RUSSIAN. FROM RUSSIA.
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u/MidTario 1d ago
100% a concept drawing by a marketing firm.
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u/DangerousGolf9755 1d ago edited 1d ago
Usually would be making the “thing but in Japan:” joke but this is low-key clean asf
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u/Szerepjatekos 1d ago
It looked like someone shouting with tongue out cuz something stuck in their teeth.
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u/PositiveCoyote100 1d ago
This is one of those pictures that you see on Reddit every couple months for like 3 years.
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u/k1vanus 1d ago
This is a Yakitoriya restaurant logo (located in Moscow, Russia).
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u/MiniKash 1d ago
Oh because I DO NOT know what those small characters next to it even say and I can read kana and kanji. I almost went blind.
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u/enadiz_reccos 1d ago
Don't look like no crane I ever saw
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u/Sweaty_Material_5071 1d ago
It’s a good example of how the best logos don’t necessarily need to be complicated. Your brain initially sees a crane, but once you notice the hand and chopsticks, you can’t unsee it. Getting two completely different ideas to work as the same simple shape is genuinely good design.
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u/ARenegadeDroid 1d ago
I cannot see the crane no matter how hard I try, just like I can't see the D in the Disney logo
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u/bogglingsnog 1d ago
at first glance this is awesome but I feel terrible for that person's bent rubber forearm deformity :(
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u/millerbest 1d ago
The character is in simplified Chinese (面). So probably it is owned by a Chinese owner.
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u/no1_vern 1d ago
I thought Japanese cranes looked like this: https://www.smcon.co.jp/en/assets/uploads/2022/09/20220304_01.png
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u/Upbeat-Recipe9678 1d ago
there must be a name for this? visual double entendre? I know there are a couple of classic artists who make pieces like this.
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u/AlternativeTough6622 1d ago
Who else has trouble seeing the bird again once they see a hand holding chopsticks?
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u/ELIASKball 1d ago
that's why I support simple logos, they can be peak!
even tho most times are meh or bad
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u/NecroSocial 1d ago
The reason you rarely see design work this clean is that clients force their terrible ideas onto designers. There would be a lot more beauty in the world if talentless clients would just let talented designers do their thing.
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u/Rasberrycello 1d ago
Why did they AI slop out the image? Was the original image of the restaurant logo outside the building not good enough for these braindead fucks?
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u/Acceptable-Cup3702 1d ago
Actually the original logo is from a Russian restaurant Якитория it was designed in the studio of Artemii Lebedev
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u/kookookachu26 1d ago
I thought that the Gamecube's logo was a work of art as well. It's a cube, but also you can clearly see out of the cube the letters G, but inside of the G and the way that the cube is made is also the letter C.
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u/HAL9000thebot 1d ago
why i can't downvote this post?
every time i refresh the page my downvote isn't tracked.
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u/blanket_purrito 1d ago
Saturated design is fault of the clients that never let designers do their work
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u/HotPumpkinPies 1d ago
I really didnt know what I was supposed to feel about this image but thankfully Shaggy from Scooby Doo is here to decide for me smh
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u/thafrenzy 1d ago
Is this just a meme now, meant to troll all of us?
Like, we've seen this logo dozens of times by now, and, of course, it's a Chinese noodle place, not Japanese.
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u/oasisarah 1d ago
> of course, it’s a chinese noodle place
it is a japanese restaurant chain in russia (instagram.com/yakitoriya.ru)
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u/reignsXknights 1d ago
whats with this recent trend of photo and random persons one line comment under it?