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Finding the 1Malaysia Logo

It seems that Najib wants the 1Malaysia logo to be used by everyone.

Via Bernama:

The 1Malaysia logo is expected to be widely used by ministries and local companies to signify the support for the 1Malaysia concept and principles behind the "People First, Performance Now" ideals.

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said many may have already noticed that in the past month or more, many nationally-recognised local companies had introduced into their advertising campaigns, a logo, very similar to the 1Malaysia logo, which can see be seen on his 1Malaysia website.

On quick inspection, the 1Malaysia website does not contain a usable logo for me to use. In fact its quite difficult for me to find the logo.

Usually a website will contain a Press or Public Relations section that is easily accessible, where the Press, Bloggers, people can easily find a set of media to use. This includes press releases, images, logos, and usually the set of restrictions on how these logos can be used.

For example, Apple has a Public Relations page where I can easily find high resolution images of their products.

Mozilla also does an amazing job on providing users with a large set of high resolution Firefox images.

Using the search engine on the 1Malaysia website to search for "1Malaysia logo" or "logo", provides so many results, in an unattractive and difficult to use interface. Why didn't they just stick Google Search on the website?

Jumping to my favorite search engine, I googled for "1Malaysia Logo", I got a hit for "1Malaysia Logo Guideline". It only provided PDFs for the 1Malaysia Logo Corporate Identity and 1Malaysia Logo Colour Sample. But not even the real logo. Fail.

How did I find the logo I'm using? Google Image Search. They even managed to find me an Adobe Illustrator format on Brands of the World.

Update:
Here are some other places you can find the logo, generated by the public:

• Google Image Search: 1malaysia logo
• Brands of the World ( Adobe Illustrator )
• Vectorism - 1Malaysia Corporate ID ( Adobe Illustrator )
• Vectorism - Happy 52nd Merdeka ( Adobe Illustrator )