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 […]
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3 ways to say Derry City and Strabane Council
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 authority were on 22 May 2014 and it acted as a shadow authority, prior to the creation of the Derry and Strabane district […]
City of Stonnington from Casino to 90s Roundel
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 a circle, but reframed it with a blue and gold design and replacing the serif typeface on “City of” with a […]
To cries of “the logo cost how much?” show this
These days when companies, organisations, sports teams and public bodies decide to change their branding, upon release Twitter explodes with cries of “how much”, “my mum could have done better” and “I’d do it for £20 on my hooky copy of photoshop”. Designers rise up from their coffee and computers in defence of the cost […]
The Warwick University Logo and Loughborough University Logo Updates
UPDATE 28/04/2015 – The Loughborough Echo reports a University spokesperson saying that after “The strength of feeling around the change” the new logo they are “proposing that the roll-out of the new identity is paused at this point to allow us to take stock and to listen to concerns”. Update #2 15/09/2015 – Loughborough University have […]
An Arrow for Broken Bow’s New Broken Brand
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 logo rebrands gone awry aka City Logo Fails, and despite it’s size, Broken Bows is a good tale. Around 12 […]
A Star – Amarillo selects a new logo
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 no little ceremony a new logo. Trouble was that someone in house stole the logo of a Dubai property company, […]
City Logo Fail #2 – Menlo Park Spends $25k to keep its old logo
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 a good job there’s so much wealth I guess because when the council decided to investigate options to replace it’s […]
City Logo Fail #2 – Wellington
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, launched in April, it based itself on a couple of things, the tag line “Absolutely Positively Wellington” and a yellow […]
City Logo Fail #1
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 or significance is relatively low. However with some regularity these logos have a story of some sort behind them, often […]