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Yes, you're right, they're slighly more complicated. Hows about these:

http://blog.iso50.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/windowslive...

http://www.findthatlogo.com/wp-content/gallery/pepsi-logos/o...

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DvlYtL1ReM0/TIHrinS6g5I/AAAAAAAACw...

this is even better:

http://www.logodesignconsultant.com/images/Memorable-simple-...

this is probably the winner though:

http://www.petergreenberg.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/log...

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Interestingly, the red cross logo is actually a trademark of Johnson & Johnson [1], not the Red Cross. It's also easily confused with the Swiss flag, and Swatch Watches (though granted they have inverted colours). Unless there is some context you wouldn't necessarily know which brand that was referring to. If you remove the colour (as is proposed on the page), it's just a plus sign and not recognisable at all.

[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1559971/Johnson-an...

all of those are significantly more complicated. you really can't argue that a shape made up of one very simple shape is only slightly less complicated than a shape made up of a couple/several simple shapes. by that logic, you could argue that every letter in the Latin alphabet is very simple; I'm sure everyone would agree that there is a significant difference in complexity between a rectangle and an uppercase 'F'.

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