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Last week, Overhauling the iconic GM trademark, the company tried to express its new path of production, the ideas of eco-friendliness and the technology implemented in electric vehicles. In renovated logo, the GM initials have become lowercased, placed inside a frame with rounded angles. The emblem’s milder and a bit three-dimensonal design with its light blue gradient color give a modern perception and symbolize clean environment and blue skies that people will have, using EV’s. Another remarkable change is the underline that was featured in the previous GM logo – now it is only under the “m”, and the space…

Two years ago, Germany’s Lufthansa launched the airline brand Eurowings Discover. Now, the company is going to change its name to Discover Airlines, gaining independence from its parent company, Eurowings. Undergoing a reorganization, the airline has received a new look that parallels Lufthansa’s brand identity. Discover Airlines is oriented toward private travel and positioned as “a quality leisure airline of the Lufthansa Group”. The company offers short-, medium-, and long-distance flights to popular vacation destinations. In long-distance travel, it competes with Condor, and both airlines operate based on Lufthansa Group’s feeder services. According to a Discover Airlines press release, the…

Launched in 1994, Eurostar is a pioneer brand involved in international high-speed railway transportation. Its network connects the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and more recently Germany. This year, the company is undergoing a rebranding after a merger with Thalys, a high-speed railway provider that connected Paris and Brussels. The prominent DesignStudio developed a new look for Eurostar, having made a great job, completely changing the visual identity of the company. The project was based on a new concept named Spark which comes to life under the motto “Spark new experiences” and puts forward a new symbol replacing the…

While Ireland is hosting the 2021 FIBA European Championship for Small Countries, the basketball governing body of the country, Basketball Ireland, has rolled out its visual identity including a new logo and web-site. The organization hopes that the renovated look will help the Irish players proudly represent their country in international competition. BI’s new logo was created by designer Adam Ingler who is no stranger to basketball as his parents, Annette and Marc, are the founders and coaches of the DCU Mercy, a basketball team of the Dublin City University, and Adam himself played in this club as well as…

Extended with two more clubs from South Africa to 16 teams, the Pro14 rugby league has changed its name to United Rugby Championship. Apart from the South African teams, the competition includes teams from Scotland, Ireland, Wales and Italy. Preparing to start the next season under the new name in September, URC has also unveiled a new visual identity. The league’s new look was developed by Thisaway, a branding agency from Bath, Somerset. The URC branding project, entitled “A different league”, was inspired by the fact that the transformed competition brings together teams from different cultures. In their work, the…

It turned out to be that The unifying design motifs are Google’s four-color scheme and the color overlapping in the corners of the icons that makes them perceived a bit three-dimensional, albeit it doesn’t eliminate the flat look in general. Also, we can notice that the corners themselves have grown more rounded. This is particularly evident in the Google Drive logo. In addition, it is the only emblem of the five which maintained a three-color palette (yellow-green-blue) in its previous version, and adopted only a red corner in the new iteration. At the same time, the most changes can be…

The Dutch mobile carrier T-Mobile, a former subsidiary of Deutche Telekom in the Netherlands, is carrying out a rebranding. From now on, the company will operate under the name of Odido. This change, however, appeared to be unexpected for many, raising some questions. While the company used light red in its previous visual identity, the rebranded Odido now maintains a bright and bold color palette. In addition, the brand’s simplified forms implemented in the new logo demonstrate a serious approach. Interestingly, the new name is a palindrome, a word that you can read the same backwards as forwards. According to…

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta continues developing the Facebook brand, this time by adjusting the visual design of the social network. The change in colors, signs, as well as the logo,has to “provide a faultless and fresh Facebook”, as a Meta design team posted in the corporate blog. And this is only the first stage of a renovation aiming to create an integrated identity for the whole platform. In this first step, the company presented a new version of the Facebook logo, including a redesigned font for the wordmark and a wider color palette that revolves around a fresh shade of blue….