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Launched in 2009, We Compost is a company from Auckland, New Zealand, providing a food waste collection service. Each week, it collects more than 50 tonnes of organic waste from health care institutions, schools, hotels and restaurants. Advocating for cleaning environment and recycling waste, the company aims to promote the ideas of sustainability and eco-friendliness. This goal is also contributed by We Compost’s new brand identity. The central element of the We Compost look is an earthworm. This animal was chosen as the company’s symbol for its ability to digest a wide range of organic matter that helps fertilize soil,…

As the Major League Soccer announced its plan to expand to 30 teams last year, St. Louis has been preparing to launch its own expansion team. Initially, it was planned that a team from St. Louis would join MLS in 2022, but due to the coronavirus pandemic and the delay in the construction of the St. Louis soccer stadium, it may start playing in the league only in 2023. Waiting for the franchise’s debut in MLS, the ownership group has unveiled the club’s name and logo. St. Louis City SC, the name for the team, was chosen in a vote…

On December 7th 2017, the NHL commissioner Gary Bettman announced Seattle had been granted the right to file an extension team application which was eventually approved in late 2018. After that, Seattle Hockey Partners, the team’s owning company, launched a process of voting on the name and logo for the Seattle team. Recently, both the name and its emblem have been presented to the public. The team’s attributes were unveiled at a special event under the motto “Release the Kraken!”. Reportedly, 13 names, including the Cougars, Eagles, Emeralds, Seals and others, were registered to choose from. But most of the…

Launched in 2008, Dribbble is a social network where digital designers can publish their portfolios and search for jobs, and therefore employers can recruit creative people into their teams. As the platform has long ceased to be just a website to share design works and turned into a creative community to establish connections and continue learning, it need a visual identity to reflect its actual status. Among the design works uploaded to the platform, you can find logos, illustrations, web design samples, and other pieces of digital art. Like on Adobe’s Behance, users here can rate, comment, and share them….

The redesign has been carried out by the New York-based design studio Franklyn and aims to redefine and expand the assets of WeWork, which could co-exist with the pre-existing things, not changing the image of the company. While WeWork’s previous branding by GretelNY partly included a colored design for the logo and other visual elements, the new look features a black-and-white version of the logo only. This formal solution, according to the company, seeks to make the brand more consistent in different contexts, whether in digital apps or physical signboards. The project is also concerned with improving and stylizing the…

Porsche has presented a new version of its logo as a result of a thorough rebranding that ran for three years. The work on livening the iconic shield, according to the company, aimed to convey the connection of the brand’s history and vision of the future. The refreshed identity continues the design created in 1954, showing off slight changes. The update was actually caused by the 75th anniversary the brand celebrates this year. The new iteration of the One of the remarkable changes concerns the red stripes which now have a cell pattern inside. The use of slightly different shades…

Warner Bros. needs no introduction. Everyone knows and loves the movies and cartoons that start with its famous WB shield. In 2023, the studio is going to celebrate its 100th anniversary. So, moving towards to this event, it is thinking of refreshing its identity. Although the WB emblem is quite recognizable and tells a lot about the company’s heritage, Warner Bros. still feels the need to meet the requirements of the modern times including the branding issues. For a rebranding, the company applied to Pentagram, a renown design studio that collaborated with many companies working in different spheres. Pentagram has…

When a brand experiences some unsteadiness, revision of its visual identity can be an effective means to stabilize the business and make the goals clearer. And the recent rebranding of Freeform, a Disney-owned cable channel, is a good example of this idea. Formerly owned by “They haven’t come of age yet, and are in a state of constant becoming, so they need shows which will help them expand the world, but not escape from it”, Collins says. So the uniqueness of the brand is in the attractiveness to its audience, embodied in productions with profound stories giving people different points…