Branding
Probably The Worst City Logo Ever Designed
Last year the German city of Cottbus initiated a nationwide design contest for their new logo and a reward of € 8000 for the winning entry. A couple of days ago a local newspaper revealed the winner and it’s horrible. … Read
KOOL Cigarettes With Wild Style Packaging
To lure trendy and fashion-conscious Japanese KOOL cigarettes uses a very cool packaging. The box was developed specifically for distribution through Japan’s Circle K Sunkus convenience store chain and features a snake style design without any warnings like Europe and … Read
Pepsi Redesign Gets Official
Pepsi reached out to 25 “digital and social media influencers” with three separately-shipped packages. The first contained five cans representing logo design from 1898 to 1950. The second contained five cans from 1962 to 1998. The third contained the newly … Read
Pepsi Logo Redesign
One of the biggest rebrandings in history will take place over the next months and years. Pepsi Co will be revamping the design and identities of their key brands while their sales drop between 2% and 5% in various beverage … Read
Best Buy’s New Logo
Founded in 1966 as Sound of Music and renamed to Best Buy in 1983, the consumer electronics giant is one of the largest retailers of its kind with its low prices. After years of using the old logo that looked … Read
Creative Business Cards. Awesome!
Quicksprout compiled a list of creative business cards that will distinguish yourself from competitors. Some of the 51 business cards are a bit too much for my taste but here are the ones I find interesting. The question is which … Read
Your Name On A Piece Of Toast
Over and over again funny amazing what kind of ideas companies have. This time it is all about toasts and raising money for charity organisations like World Vision, Save the Children or others you can help decide on. It works … Read
Adobe’s Icon Rebranding
With Adobe’s upcoming launch of the CS3 Suite the company will have rebranded over hundreds of their icons. Veerle writes: While this color-wheel beautifully presents the approach in the entire re-branding, I think it fails in bringing the message across … Read
Hello! is forced to become Hej! Drinks
Shortly after its smoothie market introduction, the brand Hello! Drinks had to change its name to Hej! Drinks. “We have been offline, because we were forced to find a new name for our smoothie brand. That is also the reson … Read
Branded Nails 2: Apple
Following our last post about branded nails, here’s another nail design I find great: Apple’s logo on silver background color, from a woman who fell in love with the iPod: [via Cyberbloc]
La Caixa Logo And The Painter Miro
I just found out that the third biggest bank of Spain, La Caixa, keeps it like Chupa Chups with Salvador Dali. In 1980 the spanish savings institute took a painting by Joan Miro as basis for its logo: a blue … Read
Hello! Drinks Brand Evolves Interactively
It was in February 2006 when German Marketing-expert Jürgen Alker came back from the UK with a new business idea: smoothies. A smoothie is a blended non-alcoholic beverage made from natural ingredients, usually fruits and juices but sometimes other natural … Read
Your Logo Made Out Of Chocolate
I found this through a Google Ad on my own page and thought it might interest you. There’s a company called Choco Logo that will create custom chocolaterie with your corporate design. Their products range from embossed chocolate bars, sugar … Read
Awkward, Quawkward, Quark
Honestly, the old logo from publication design software company Quark was outdated and ugly but at least it had some unique characteristics. On the left is the new one: pretty modern and cool but
