I don't blame them. The redesign looks like it was inspired by Pong, or as you've already pointed out, a pared down Rankin-Bass logo.

Eyup.

Patrion changed it's logo? Meh... I hadn't noticed. It's like UL or the Bell System changing their logos.

Well, this is a pretty radical change...

the bell system logo change was pretty radical from the one i remember back in the 1950s, back in the days when they had superman's changing rooms everywhere.

https://www.google.com/search?q=ran.....H3VjP0gbfO0IM:

Heh. Quite a collection, then.

Reminds me of the USPS reflagging a number of years ago, when they changed their eagle. Rather than just issue new marking as a sticker or repaint the trucks as they came in for servicing, or Gahd forbid, wait until the individual jeeps and trucks were obsolete and sold, they insisted that every Post Orifice vehicle be replaced immediately at taxpayer expense. Hey, Federal Express -- I mean, FedEx -- still had the old trucks in their fleets (and allegedly frightening Mexicans) until a few years ago.

'S'funny, Jack Conte, the guy who started Patreon, is part of the singing duet Pomplamoose. I started listening to their music years ago because they did a clever commercial for Hyundai, and watching their videos because Jack's wife Nataly is so damned cute!

"allegedly frightening Mexicans"? This I must hear.

In 1973, the word had given the company immediate equity, an official alternative to the post office, but today it was more often associated with being bureaucratic and slow. In Latin American countries, it conjured images of the federales, and in some other parts of the world, people had trouble pronouncing Federal Express.--Susan Westcott Alessandri, Visual Identity: Promoting and Protecting the Public Face of an Organization

You can't make this stuff up. Sure glad I took that Management course, too.

Like the marketing manager at Chevrolet in Mexico who couldn't understand such low sales numbers on a car called NoVa

In 1973 Federal Express only did domestic delivery so they wouldn't be handling international "returns".

Willful ignorance of local languages and customs has cost many manufacturers overseas sales. By way of example, Oreo cookies in foreign markets come in green tea, blueberry and orange ice cream and other flavors undreamt in the USA.

That's true, but Federal Express made the name change to FedEx in 2000, not 1973 -- the year Federal Express began operations.

Hmmm... I wonder if Nabisco would consider putting out an "International Sampler" set of six flavors in small dispenser type packages? Probably should considering they don't make Oreos any more in the USA. They are now Mexi-cookies. From the (not) National Biscuit Co.

That is a good idea -- not that I could partake. Wonder Bread isn't an American company any more, either; they're owned by the Bimbo people, who only operate a handful of bakeries in the U.S. Same for their corporate twin, Hostess: no longer a domestic entity.

You where redecorating! I don't like it!

Send in The Reluctant Dragon.

Or Albert Mouse!

Yeah, why couldn't Patreon just make their logo more minimalistic while keeping true to their brand image? For example, just the white part of their old logo could've been turned orange and used as a new logo.

Quite.

http://imgur.com/gallery/LqTLQ

And that still looks better than the stick and ball logo. That isn't a logo, that's an april fool's prank. The ball is misplaced, too large, too far separate, and if it's supposed to be two parts of the same letter then why are the two halves DIFFERENT COLORS.
And I sorta liked the orange logo, after awhile it reminded me of those old wood-panel 70s nintendo mockups or whatever they were. Those "the games of today, if they were made in 1975."

Well, 2/3rds?

Technically, yes. But "half" flows better.

I hate the new page design. After digging around for an hour unable to find the feedback button, I was forced to hunt thru my email for an old support ticket, and send my complaints as a response to that. I fail to see the point in removing all the onscreen buttons and controls and stuffing them in a sidebar, if that just leaves a huge white gap where they used to be. The POST button used to be right there, clearly labeled and bright orange. Now it's been shoved out of the way as it were some secondary function nobody ever really used. It's like no thought went into how people even use the site. Between the pointless page redesign and the logo...

I hate to say it, but I'm worried about the future of Patreon, now.
Maybe this boat isn't sinking, but it's hard to tell from way back here, and there seems to be a lot of deck chair rearranging in progress.

By the way, they sent me back a form letter / advertisement which basically ignored everything I had to say. Also not a good sign.

(nods) Not having a Patreon, I don't see all that stuff. Still...

LOL
I'm showing my age by knowing who RB is. [I still can't decide if The Hobbit or Return of the King was better...]

Both pretty good in my estimation. Still, ya can't beat "Where There's A Will, There's A Whip"...

*Chuckles* Still to this day the only song about force marching that I've ever heard. [Although your version sounds DIRTY.]