It’s interesting to see that the new Fast Company social networking feature is using the open-source package Drupal to power it.

Their logo is a bit unoriginal though. Being familiar with Linux, Drupal, and the other open-source CMS packages, I quickly recognized it as a mashup of some other logos. Here’s the steps it took to make the new logo:

Step 1: Take the logo from competing open-source CMS package Joomla:

Step 2: Rotate it counter-clockwise 90 degrees:

Step 3: Cross-pollinate it with the Ubuntu Linux logo:

Step 4: Some minor tweaking of shade and positioning, and ta-daa!, new logo:

Update:In the comments, reader “bloggo@bloggo.com” notes “The logo to which you are referring was created when Fast Company debuted their original reader’s network, the Company of Friends, in November 1997. Unless those other logos are almost 11 years old, most likely they copied Fast Company, or else it’s a coincidence.” The earliest link I can find in the Wayback Machine shows this logo as of July 5, 2003, so I’ll assume they are correct about the 1997 creation date (screenshot below). Thanks for setting us straight.