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Sedgwick County Zoo presents a Kansas lion logo
Sedgwick County Zoo presents a Kansas lion logo

Founded in 1971, the Sedgwick County Zoo in Wichita, Kansas, is a popular tourist site. It has more than 3000 animals of 400 different species. Holding the first place among the outdoor attractions in the state and increasing the number of visitors, the zoo is carrying out a rebranding now. As a part of changing the identity, a new logo has been presented. While creating the logo, design studio Gardner Design did much work, studying different zoo logos. The designers came to the conclusion that almost all of them don’t tell anything about their locations. So, the team decided that…

Olympique Lyonnais carries out doubtful logo update
Olympique Lyonnais carries out doubtful logo update

Playing in Ligue 1, France’s top football division, While the club’s traditional red and blue are brighter now, the gold bordering in the big “O” and “L” was removed, and the outer borderng became thinner. The “Olympique Lyonnais” is redesigned in the Trenda typeface which was developed by Daniel Hernandez and Paula Nazal Selaive in 2013. With this, the lion’s outline was optimized – now, it has smaller dimensions, with smaller claws and fewer clumps of hair. Overall, such a design makes the logo more scalable.     At the same time, the logo update is rather surprising, and besides,…

Australia presents a new version of the National Brand
Australia presents a new version of the National Brand

The While the National Brand of Australia has been in existence for almost four years, it is managed by the Advisory Council established by the government. According to an official statement, the goal of the National Brand is to develop a stronger and more unified visual identity that could improve the country’s image and global competitiveness. The first attempt to implement such a brand failed, opposed by the Australian public. As critics said, many people saw in the logo a resemblance to coronavirus as the emblem featured a round flower of wattle, a vegetable symbol of Australia. As a result,…

Visa brings evolutionary changes into its brand design
Visa brings evolutionary changes into its brand design

The payment services provider Seven years ago, Visa used the start of the Olympic Games (the company has been “a global Olympic partner” for a long time) to alternate its trademark. And the changes, unveiled a few days ago, partly bring back the Visa design which was used before 2005, including the tricolor card symbol as an addition to the main logo. The Visa wordmark itself received a new shade of blue. Visa’s renovated brand identity is a part of the company’s global marketing campaign launched at the start of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. The Meet Visa campaign focuses…

Cleveland Indians become Guardians with new visual identity
Cleveland Indians become Guardians with new visual identity

Founded in 1901 as the Cleveland Blues, the As the franchise announced last Friday, MLB’s team will be renamed to the Cleveland Guardians after the 2021 season has ended. The rebranding has entirely been foreseeable. While the team replaced its primary logo, depicting the comic-style Chief Wahoo, to the big “C” in 2013, it continued using the emblem as one of their alternate insignias. Both the Chief Wahoo emblem and the Indians name have been subjects of criticism from different quarters for many years. In particular, many people from Native American communities consider them racist and offensive. Back in early…

Opel unveils an “electrified” visual identity
Opel unveils an “electrified” visual identity

The fresh look started from the Opel GT X Experimental, a concept that was demonstrated two years ago and featured a new “Opel Blitz”, that has to mark the company’s upcoming cars, as well as the neon yellow in the roof side lines and wheels that was consequently taken as a brand color – this hue symbolizes electricity which will prevail as a car fuel in the new era. Later, the company presented the new Opel Mokka which was created in Opel’s brand-new style and distinguished with the Pure Panel new-gen cabin as well as the Vizor LED system. The…

Basketball Ireland updates its logo and web-site
Basketball Ireland updates its logo and web-site

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…

Disney+ unveils new green logo called Aurora
Disney+ unveils new green logo called Aurora

Disney+ has officially presented its new logo, different from what the service’s subscribers are accustomed to seeing. The branded blue color has been changed to a greenish hue reminding the colors of Hulu, a service which will soon be integrated into Disney+. Judging on users comments online, the remake appeared to be a controversial thing. Some see it as a pointless simplification, while others appreciate the uniqueness of the design, compared to other streaming services. And there are also those who ask if the color is really changed or they just didn’t pay attention to it. Actually, the new version…

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