Post Tagged with: "brand identity"

The Good. The Bad. The Ugly.

The Good. The Bad. The Ugly.

September 20, 2013 at 12:15 am

How three tech companies got it right, and wrong, with their new logos. It has been quite a month or so in logo-land with a redesign popping up seemingly every other day. So much is tied up with a company’s logo—a small graphic expression intended to personify a brand’s values […]

 
New Yahoo Logo is more BOOHOO! than YAHOO!

New Yahoo Logo is more BOOHOO! than YAHOO!

September 5, 2013 at 8:49 pm

Have you been been wondering why the new Yahoo logo is banal, so “meh”, so underwhelming? I have found the answer on Yahoo’s CEO, Marissa Mayer’s Tumblr: “On a personal level, I love brands, logos, color, design, and, most of all, Adobe Illustrator. I think it’s one of the most […]

 
The new Gap logo is a hoax

The new Gap logo is a hoax

October 7, 2010 at 7:57 pm

At least I hope it is. This is a brave new world of marketing, call it mendacious marketing.  A company as rich and sophisticated as The Gap is not going to quietly hoist something as important as a logo on the world overnight and hope no one notices it was […]

 
Bring Back Tropic Ana

Bring Back Tropic Ana

February 1, 2010 at 10:21 am

Tropicana has taken a lot of heat for the dull redesign it attempted last year. It was generic and reminded me of Metamucil packaging. This isn’t the first time Tropicana has alienated consumers. I’ve always been a champion of Tropic Ana. The juice giant slowly euthanized her in the eighties. […]