Last year I signup up for Kickstarter, a crowdfunding website, in the hope of starting a brand related project with the help of hundreds of investors, but the restriction for US based projects made me give up the idea for a while.
DC Comics is one of the largest and most successful comic book publisher of the world, so simply by submitting this new design for trademark protection is enough to shake grounds. Will this logo replace the current version?
Waterstone’s is one of the best known booksellers in the UK and its brand is recognised all over the nation. The bookstore went trough a rebranding by the brand identity firm Venture Three, but recently James Daunt, managing director of Waterstone’s reinstated its former Baskerville serif font with a capital W.
Eurobrand European Brand Institute Logo Eurobrand is an independent brand and patent valuation expert and management consultancy firm, and they have recently examined and valued more than 3,000 brands corporations from all around the world. Guess who got first place in their 2012 ranking? If you are thinking Apple, you got it right! Their brand … Read more Global Top 100 Brand Corporations by Eurobrand
Recently I wrote an article about a city that went advertising-free on Brazign, a blog on the topic of Brazilian design, art and culture. Considering I used to live there, I felt the urge of posting on the topic here too. Actually, writing this article fills me with a mixed feeling of nostalgia and relief. Back … Read more São Paulo No Logo Exposition
Vegetal Identity is a Paris based visual identity producing company with a twist, they graciously create greener version of brands. Are your brand in need of a more green look-and-feel? Well, these are the guys you’re looking for.
I’ve just stumble across this four marvellous short branding films created by Lumbre for National Geographic 2012 identity campaign.
So, in order to solve my own ‘problem’, I create @logostorm, where I combined the feed of these logo design galleries in just one twitter stream. Perhaps I should call it the one feed to bring them all. Logos, not rings, of course. 🙂
Minnesota based graphic designer Nicole Meyer started a 27 years project, creating one logo a day for each one of the 10,000 local lakes. Excerpt from Branding 10000 Lakes: Lake logos have a tendency to be, well, fairly ugly. This project was created to rethink what they could be. [more] Via @nicole_meyer.
One thing I would never expect to see is Microsoft loosing their multi-coloured logo for a more minimalistic and iconic design, but by all means don’t get me wrong, if this Windows 8 new logo design turn out to be the real thing I’ll take my hat off to Microsoft. Regarding branding, it’s certainly the right move.