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Last year’s winner of the CONCACAF Champion Cup, the Seattle Sounders FC, has unveiled its new visual identity, created by the Seattle-based design studio Column. The club is considered one of the most successful teams in Major League Soccer, having on its account four titles of the winner of the US Open Cup as well as the Supporters’ Shield (2014) and the MLS Cup (2016 and 2019). Although the Sounders joined MLS only 14 years ago as a new expansion team, they trace their roots back to 1974, when a club with the same name started to play in the…

Slipping from   Indeed, the presented logo features a specific form of an eagle’s head and wings overhanging stylized letters “S” and “C”, which cannot help associating with fascist iconography. “The new logo of Spezia seems, so to say, too Nazi”, a Twitter user noticed. Nevertheless, the Ligurian club stated that “the logo was developed for all fans to take pride in”. However, the reaction from fans was not laudatory, according to Italian news agency Ansa. “Awful”, “looks like a Nazi symbol”, and “It’s an insult to our city’s history” are some of those critical comments that immediately appeared on…

The Scout Association is the largest Scouting organizations in the United Kingdom. It unites over 580,000 members and can boast its rich history. Regardless of its heritage, changing times urge this movement, offering education for young people, to update its identity. Established in 1909, the Scouts had kept the traditional fleur-de-lis on their logos, the latest of which was introduced almost 20 years ago that certainly allows to consider it as dated. In the modern digital age, the leaders of the organization have realized that the Scouts identity has to be changed. As Chris James, a brand director at the…

While some images of Buick’s new badge, in black and white, leaked on the web about two months ago, the company is now announcing the renovation officially. Refreshing its brand identity, Buick reworked the iconic “tri-shield” which is rooted in the family crest of the brand’s founder, David Dunbar Buick. In the new iteration, the shields were re-arranged horizontally, departing from the clearer heraldic style of the previous diagonal layout. In addition, they were remarkably reshaped, having apertures inside with borders colored in Buick’s traditional red-white-blue gamma. Placed with some spacing between them, the elements will be depicted without the…

Last month, Anheuser-Busch announced its new global goal, beginning to hold a customer-oriented strategy under the motto “We Dream Big to Create a Future with a More Cheers”, which has to drive further growth. While betting on this, the St. Louis-based company has unveiled its new look. According to AB, the revamped visual identity better reflects the things the company is advocating for, and where it wants to move to. Showing off simple and contemporary motifs, the design perfectly fits the company’s ambitious and optimistic spirit, celebrating the great plans of Anheuser-Busch, as the group’s global brands vice-president Richard Oppy said….

The Milan Motorcycle Show EICMA (Esposizione Internazionale Ciclo Motorciclo e Accessori) has rebranded, unveiling a new logo and slogan. Nearly three months before its 78th edition, the Italian motorbike exhibition has presented its new logo and changed its name as a part of a rebranding. With this, the show is willing to emphasize more clearly its identity and direction. EICMA’s new emblem represents the front wheel and fork of a motorbike. The wheel is a symbol of the world, the fork plays the role of a pointer and the red color conveys the passion for the segment, according to the…

Reducing the Europa League from 48 to 32 teams and launching the Europa Conference League from the 2021/22 season, Turquoise had experience working with the European football union earlier when the studio “built a good understanding of the requirements and needs”, as its creative officer Gareth Mapp says. Developing the UEFA leagues project, Turquoise tried to refresh the UEL branding with a new design which could tell that the league will show more competitiveness even with fewer teams now. With this, the Conference League’s logo should reflect the ideas of openness and inclusiveness. Both logos share a general design including…

As many businesses today, Schweitzer Mountain Resort, located near Sandapoint, Idaho, is facing some difficulties due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The enterprise has already suspended its extension plan for 30-unit boutique hotel. However, hoping for better times, the resort decided to refresh its look by rebranding itself to simply Schweitzer and adopting a new logo. On its website, Schweitzer shared some details about the renovated visual identity, saying that its new emblem pays tribute to its heritage, while embracing its future. Now, the symbol of the ski resort is a stylized “S” formed by three strokes whose design Schweitzer describes…