In a masterstroke of self-flagellation, Antioch City (the second largest city in Contra Costa County, California, US, a suburb of California) have selected a new logo that highlights that “Opportunity Lives Here”. Only trouble from…
If you’re going to identify that you don’t need a new logo for the promotion of tourism in your city, do it before you spend $5,000 on designing one. I’ve no idea what type of…
A most excellent tale from Port Arthur, Texas, on a busy day for Texan logo news… Back in 2016, the city launched a new logo to replace their crazy sun/water boat 70’s thing. It was…
The always tricky “city identity’ dragon raises it’s head in Bellaire Texas, who adopted most of a rebrand, drafted by Design by Principle, but not the logo, leaving them with the old, weird, illustrative city…
With shades of the Everett Logo Contest, the government of Mexico is looking for a new Mexico City airport logo and is offering $4,000 for the winner of its open competition (with rights granted on all…
I regularly argue that councils and municipals need to invest in branding. I wrote an article explaining a few reasons “Why that new municipal council logo isn’t a waste of taxpayer money” and I stand by the…
Back in the heady days of 2012, when the UK austerity mandate was really starting to bite, Stoke-on-Trent City Council and Realis Estates began work on a plan for a new retail and leisure development in…
Derry City and Strabane District Council is a local authority in Northern Ireland that was established on 1 April 2015. It replaced Derry City Counciland Strabane District Council and covers most of the northwest of Northern Ireland. The first elections to…
The City of Stonnington is a local government area located within the metropolitan area of Melbourne, Australia. (Wikipedia) Stonnington has updated its logo, initially designed in 1994 when it was formed. They’ve kept the central elements, as brush like S and…
Canada is preparing to celebrate it’s 150th anniversary in 2017. Events like this take some planning, so thinking ahead, they’re looking for a logo to support the celebrations. They’ve chosen to ask students of the country…
UPDATE 10/12/2014: It seems that the winning design might be a little to close to another existing logo. It looks like two designers coming to similar solutions rather than a copy to me, so that’s…
UPDATE: Everett Logo Winner Announced! Part 1: Everett Logo Contest: 849 ways to design a logo View all 849 entries in this 50mb original Everett logo entry survey screen grab: Keeping up with this story from a few weeks…
UPDATE Part 3: Everett Logo Winner Announced! Part 2: Everett Logo Contest 2 – The Semi Finals! View all 849 entries in this 50mb original Everett logo entry survey screen grab. I like to keep an eye…
Broken Bow is a city in Custer County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 3,559 at the 2010 census. It’s not a big place then, but as you know, I love a tale of governmental…
North-western British local council Pendle were fortunate to have councillor James Starkie in their fold. Starkie it seems has an eye for logo design and put together a heart based new design for the council….
A Tale of Logo Woe Should you have missed the start to Amalillo’s tale of logo woe here’s the short version: Texan city Amarillo were looking to update their branding efforts and launched with…
UPDATED: Menlo Park is a well off town in the east of California, it was ranked in the top 15 US cities in CNN’s “Best Places for the Rich and Single” to live (Thanks Wikipedia). It’s…
Wellington, New Zealand’s capital city is home to just shy of 400,000 people and sits at the southern tip of the countries northern island (thanks Wikipedia). When the city looked to create a new identity,…
One theme which always makes it’s appearance in my new logo alert stream are designs for US Cities or municipal authorities of all types. They rarely make it onto the blog as usually their quality…
