This work by Ben van den Bosch is doing a lot with 2 tone images in green and navy, something just clicks with using a very simple “hu” letter combo that I guess we’ve all tried in the past, but works well thanks to the context of connect-ability and flexible electric cables. I wonder if the […]
Tag: green
Café Lacté Branding
Café Lacté Branding by Recreatives Agency uses Neue Haas Grotesk which will always get love on this blog and I don’t care what anyone else says. It’s also got a lively deconstructed logo, so lo-fi colours and a proper old school milk carton. Win Win! Brand Identity, Menu, Business Card, Packaging, Illustrations Source: Café Lacté on Behance
National Rail – We Mean Green – Logo Short Review – video #logoshort
#logoshort opinion of National Rail – We Mean Green by National Rail (https://www.networkrail.co.uk/stories/we-mean-green/) – from LogoCurio.us
Lammas Partners – Strategy, Branding & Identity Design
Led by a delightful Goldfinch icon (and more delightful pin badge) this right deep green and gold brand for Lammas Partners is from James Dawson. Source: Lammas Partners – Strategy, Branding & Identity Design on Behance
Coquitlam spends $5,000 on a tourism logo that won’t be used
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 […]
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 […]
The Marmalade Pantry Branding
A tasty bit of branding for a Tuesday post Bank Holiday. The Marmalade Pantry is a small chain of 3 outlets in Singapore. Alongside the opening of a new bistro in the Oasia Hostel, Bravo has created a new identity for the brand. With some delicious colour combinations and a smart olive branch illustration, the whole […]
Letterheads fit for a King
When you’re a King (one assumes) you don’t simply print your letterheads from your office inkjet. When accepting invitations to visit from other global monarchs such as our very own Queen (aka Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Her other Realms […]
Embla Restaurant Branding
With a super chunky custom typeface, this brand by A Friend of Mine presses some satisfying buttons with its focus on that text and simplicity throughout. We collaborated with United Measures to create a ’tilted’ frameWe collaborated with United Measures to create a ’tilted’ frameCreditsDesign: Suzy Tuxen & Cassie Brock. The signage was a collaboration […]
planer branding
Planer is an online and offline guide to selected cultural events in Tricity, Poland. It’s designed for Cultural Institute of Gdańsk and includes a website, outdoor posters, infographics, print materials and more. The logo is a super paired down icon representation of a notepad page accompanied by a very bold geometric sans serif. The of […]
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 company launched a new logo to be seen across it’s properties and that will be most notable on it’s web […]
EU logo for online sale of medicines – European Commission
How can you be sure that those little trapezoidal blue tablets you buy from the internet are going to lift you in the way you expect? The EU wants you to trust websites that display a new green logo, accompanied by a national flag and text, to ensure you’re buying genuine drugs. […]
The Hewlett Packard Enterprise Logo – an underwhelming rectangle
Computing mega-beheomoth Hewlett Packard (HP) is slicing itself in two, separating the computer and printer operations from the server and business side. On April 15th, Meg Whitman, HP’s President & CEO introduced the new look for the business arm, now called Hewlett Packard Enterprise, in a blog post somewhat reminiscent of Marissa Mayer’s sycophantic pronouncement […]
Enter the Dragon – Mille Cymru Cycling Logo
Mille Cymru is a 1000km cycle event across the length and breadth of Wales. Cyclists visit the 3 Welsh coasts climb over 15,000m – all within just 75 hours. Visiting many of Wales’ most spectacular vistas along it’s challenging routes. One of very few 1000km+ Audax events, the Mille Cymru organisational team were looking to improve the branding of this prestigious […]
A warming gradient – Milton Glaser creates climate change logo
Milton Glaser (he of the I Heart NY thing) as part of a campaign “It’s Not Warming, It’s Dying” where you buy little badges (buttons to you Americans) to wear to raise awareness of, global warming, or rather global dying as they put it. He obviously <3’s the planet too. Sure, it’s basically […]
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 don’t really have a problem with that, there are surely plenty of talented creative types who can do this kind […]
Pendle doesn’t Lovehoney
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. As a bonus part of the heart also becomes the “P” in Penile. All seems well. Sure the logo is […]
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 […]
What do you get when you cross football and business? A retro looking new logo for Soccerex
Football is big business and Soccerex are into the business of football (we’re talking about the football that’s mostly played with the foot, not the one where folks hold the ball and throw it). If I were cynical (I am) then I’d suggest that these are the kind of people that suck the life out […]
More Amber Value than Amber Valley
I live in the borough of Amber Valley. It’s a pretty place with some history (thanks to Mr Strutt and his Mills ). It was also the setting for the popular, long running but exceedingly dull ITV show Peak Practice. In 2011 and with little fanfare but a lot of smugness, Amber Valley updated their logo and web site. […]
Garden Bridge – a garden over troubled water
Creating a new crossing for the Thames in London is a pretty rare thing, I think the Millennium Bridge by Tate Modern and St Paul’s was the last in 2000. Cursed by a resonating wobble, the opening of such crossings cause plenty of public attention. The Garden Bridge then, planned to help open up areas […]
We were almost “smmsaging” not tweeting
Nick Bilton, writer of Hatching Twitter blogs about early iterations of Twitter logos names including “Twitch,” “Friendstalker” (ugh) and “Smssy.” Founder Biz Stone threw a bunch into the pile but it was co-founder Noah Glass who pushed the rather awful green blob of a logo that they used for a while until the bubble writing blue twitter […]
Cembra MoneyBank – Press Play
We’ve seen a few bank updates around these parts what with Lloyds and TSB separating once more, allowing a refreshed TSB onto the high street and ensuring Lloyds provided us with a freshly drawn horse. This Swiss offshoot of GE is a brand new entrant into it’s market, a clean slate. It’s described as fresh, […]
Nixon Peabody Logo – Law firm grows businesses
There’s something I find uncomfortable about the idea that a law firm isn’t a tool for defence but rather a weapon of expansion. This idea that legal services, closely embedded into a business in a proactive way can help grow that business is central to this Wolff Olins identity for Nixon Peabody. I suspect that […]