Today I spotted this on the street. The banners were just put up today, for a fund-raiser in connection with the Chinese Lantern Festival.
Notice that the white space of the logo forms a house with a green door.
Notice also how the partially overlapping C and O create a shape that hints at both the lemniscate and the vesica piscis.
Cosmed, by the way, is one of those very clever phonetic/semantic translations. The English name of this drugstore chain suggests cosmetics and medicine (and democratic socialism spelled backwards). The Chinese, 康是美, is a close phonetic approximation of the English (as close as can be expected in such a phonologically different language as Chinese) and means "health is beauty."
Speaking of democratic socialism, behind the banners, the National Health Insurance logo is visible in the window of the drugstore.
Not green tube-men exactly, but certainly a similar concept.
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