Takeaways:
1. The IBM logo was iterated on. IBM clearly didn't love the first one and it was ugly.
2. The OS2 and NEXT logos are very similar. The clients wouldn't be happy if they saw them side by side like they're displayed on that page.
I remember seeing that OS/2 circle on books and boxes and it never even occurred to me that it was 'the' logo. It appeared as if a single (OS/2) circle was a unit applied indiscriminately.
You don't have an untrained eye; you've looked at logos all day long for your entire life. Some of this guy's work was great, and some of it was crap. The same could be said of a collection of any person's work.
Sure, but this is presumably just a small sample of his work that he's most proud of and has self selected.
It's interesting / surprising / puzzling to me that someone who has spent a lifetime cultivating his craft and presumably knows far more about design than I do would choose to showcase something that appears to me to be a total eyesore, which makes me think I might be missing something.
I chuckled at that, too, but I have to admit: you could show me that tilted E and I'd recognize it as an Enron logo this many years later. Even scarred by infamy, it's a very memorable symbol.
It even says so in the trivia section on that very page: "During an interview on Google, Sam Esmail, the creator of the the series, stated that E Corp's logo is actually the Enron logo."
http://www.paul-rand.com/foundation/identity/