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 place Coquitlam (a city in British Columbia, Canada.) is, and the Art Nouveau style french café sign lettering is by Array […]
Tag: city logo fail
Rejected Port Arthur City Logo wins Award!
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 however rejected, but adopted by the local chamber of commerce. It’s now won an award in it’s new role. Brilliant. […]
Bellaire Logo’s a no-go…
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 seal featuring a family of alien like figures. Source: Bellaire adopts typography, throws out proposed logo – San Antonio […]
Choose your favorite logo for a new Mexican Airport. Only 1044 options…
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 submissions so I understand). The entries, all 1044 of them are somewhat underwhelming. I’m sure there’s a gem to be […]
Everett Logo Contest: 849 ways to design a logo
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 on town and city logo rebrands across the web, especially the chores of municipalities trying to balance the cost of […]