The UK’s Charity Commission “registers and regulates charities in England and Wales, to ensure that the public can support charities with confidence.” British charities have had a bit of a hammering recently with trust being called into question and the Commissions oversight seen as a little lacking. Launching a new identity by the governmental in-house design […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]