Selling Drugs in Canada – Ontario Cannabis Store Logo
Canada has legalised the sale of Cannabis for recreational use, here’s how the state of Ontario in Canada will be selling the drug…
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Tax payers spend £50,000 on UK Parliament Logo – which is OK… [VIDEO]
I’ve created a video review of the UK Parliament rebrand by SomeOne. They’ve puckered up £50k to do it. Is that worthwhile? Watch me mumble through my opinion!
Deliveroo Visual Identity – Up Yours
There’s plenty to say about food delivery service Deliveroo’s new logo, but first I need to get my gittishness out of the way. I say that because it’s easy to sit at my desk and…
European Championships Branding
Hot on the heels of the Olympic Games is the release of the branding for the 2018 European Championships by Design Werk (originally seen at the launch in February, but published live on the DesignWerk site…
Royal Sutton Coldfield Logo Design
Regular readers (both of them) will know by now I’m a sucker for a story about small provincial town logos. On one hand, I think it’s great that local councillors put value in design, on the…
MasterCard
If you were in a magical design bubble where no company had any branding, and you started a new business, when it came to your own branding, you’d surely stumble upon a venn like overlapping…
Marston’s Inns Lights Up
Marston’s is a British public house operator and brewer. It operates over 2,000 pubs in the UK, and is the world’s largest brewer of cask ale. 90 per cent of profits come from the pubs division. (Wikipedia) When we went…
Loughborough University updates it’s logo. Again.
There seems to be a tension in the university branding world, between the wish to look cool and desirable to new students, luring them in with the promise of a great experience whilst studying and the need…
Simply Google
It’s on every design blog and tech site so I won’t bore you with a rash of personal opinion, but not to mention it on a logo blog seems daft. Google, the multi billion uber…
All Smiles for new Logitech Logo
Swiss electronics firm Logitech switches out it’s confused eye with a teal splurge thing for a clean word mark with a smile. Wired discusses Logitechs CEO Bracken Darrell move from design focussed Braun to engineering focused…
Waving the Flag for Death to the Stock Photo
Death to the Stock Photo (DttSP) share their branding process with a smartly shot video. They charged Brandon Rike with an ambitious task of creating their new logo in a day, a design that would…
Mello Juice logo and packaging redesign
Of late the UK juice drink market seems dominated by the likes of Innocent with their fruity smoothies and conversational style marketing. We’ve all been excited by getting on of our five-a-day’s from a small…
Microsoft Edge updates the Internet Explorer “e”
Microsofts Internet Explorer (IE) has been cursing web designers and programmers across the globe since 1994. It’s baggage and incompatibility has stacked up endlessly with each iteration. Younger, faster, fresher browsers have taken user share from IE…
Hats off for Pizza Huts New Logo
I remember my first Pizza Hut pizza well. I don’t recall if it was my first ever pizza, we weren’t a family who ate pizza, indeed despite essentially being cheese and tomato on bread, my dad still…
P… P… Pickup a Penguin – Penguin Random House
When two of the worlds largest book publishers merged together in the summer of 2013, I don’t imagine I was the only one who was a tiny it worried at the potential loss of one…
British Gas Logo
This popped up on Creative Review. They didn’t really comment on the update but focused the story on the agency that updated it, which was their ad agency, as opposed to a dedicated branding agency. I…
PayPal – Drop Shadow for Transparencies
Paypal, the mega online payment people have gone got’hemselves a new logo. Bleary eyed this morning I noticed the PayPal app keen to push it’s latest update to my phone, it’s one of those apps…
Owl plus Books equals Library
When Amherst’s Public Libraries decided to get a new logo, the put together a design competition on LogoArena, a spec work competition site that allows folks from across the globe to submit logos to the client…
Iowa Department of Transport Logo can’t see the road for the asphalt
When you’re short $215 million a year for road infrastructure repairs asking the public to swallow a rebranding exercise that you cost at $100,000 is a tricky task. But that didn’t deter the Iowa Department…
University Challenged – UBC’s Student Society Sunny AMS Logo
The Alma Mater Society (AMS) of the University of British Columbia Vancouver (an AMS to my fellow non Americas readers is a Students Union (SU)) as part of a larger redevelopment have announced a new…
The Derbyshire Council Logo Tour
After bemoaning the quality of the new Amber Valley Logo yesterday, I took a look at neighbouring council logo’s, to see what they are offering. So here is my tour of Derbyshire via the medium of council…
The Everton Football Badge Debacle
If you’ve had the opportunity to keep an eye on the evolution of the Everton Football Club crest over the last couple of months, you’ll know it’s been a rough ride for the team who put the…