Branding

Stumbled onto this over the weekend (hat tip: I Watch Stuff) and thought you might like a gander. This classic HBO 1980′s logo animation is full-blown logo porn that sees a detailed cityscape morphing into the famous TV network’s text logo. Many of you may be familiar with the spot, but HBO wasn’t available at [...]

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A couple of weeks ago, The Chicago Museum of Science & Industry rolled out their new logo to mixed reactions (though if you read the comments on this article, the reaction’s none-too-mixed). Gone are the trademark bars with overlaid boxes, crowbarred into the design for the words ‘THE’ and ‘OF’ (trust me, doing that’s always [...]

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Steve Douglas on February 14th, 2010

Speaking about Olympic logos (oh yes we where), and even though the Vancouver Winter Olympics are just getting underway, this is probably a good time to take a look at the logo design for the 2014 Winter Olympics, to be held in Sochi, Russia. Unveiled just before Christmas, the logo is a fairly radical departure [...]

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We lift a pint to the good people at Images Without Borders, a fund raising campaign for one of my favorite relief organizations, Doctors Without Borders, a non-political and non-denominational medical group that usually hits the ground long their more high-profile compatriots. You can now lend financial assistance to Doctors Without Borders through a web-based [...]

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Little bit late to the party on this one (this logo was released December 15 and I sorta neglected it courtesy the Christmas and New Year hubbub) but despite my tardiness, the UEFA Euro 2012 scoccer logo is still worth a mention and a looksee. So let’s. Developed by Portuguese design group Brandia Central, the [...]

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