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Launched in 2013, Qwant is a French search engine which is mainly used in France and other francophone countries. The website doesn’t generate income from advertising. Instead, it is funded by providing its technology to other websites and businesses. In this regard, Qwant doesn’t employ user tracking or personalize search results. The brand has recently updated its design to express its revised ambitions and aspirations for being more available and modern. Initiated by financier Jean-Manuel Rozan and computer security specialist Éric Léandri, Qwant, which generates almost two-thirds of search queries in France, rolled out its new design coincided with the…

Renault Group, that owns such car brands as Renault Group introduced its new logo as a part of the Annual general meeting. According to the company’s representatives, Renault is in the process of transformation, and with the new name and proper visual identity, the management is setting the goal to strengthen the group’s profile. As the automaker’s press-release says, mobility for addressing social issues is important now than ever before, and now the company’s power and dynamism depend on the strategy oriented to meet the contemporary challenges. Positioning itself as an international group, the company officially adopted the English name…

While such brands as Sagrotan, Durex or Vanish enjoy their popularity among consumers, the name of their parent company Refreshing its look, the company has dropped the second half of its name which appeared after the UK’s Reckitt & Colman merged with the Dutch company Benckiser in 1999. The rebranded Reckitt considers its new corporate identity, including a logo and some other visual elements, as an important step in the company’s ongoing transformation towards sustainable development. Reckitt’s visuality is intended to be more recognizable and reflect the company’s aspiration for better health care, protecting and education to make a clearer…

Crystal brand First of all, the fresh design’s leitmotif can be seen in the updated Swarovski logo. The iconic swan in the new iteration is facing to the right, featuring a more elongated neck and two wings, more clearly drawn compared to the old one-wing version. The brand chose the swan as its emblem in 1988 as a symbol of everlasting love and nature’s beauty, the notions that have always been associated with Swarovski’s crystal glass and jewelry. For the logo, the swan has been placed into an octagonal frame that symbolizes a faceted crystal as well as the idea…

Launched in 2008, To overhaul its look Foursquare hired PlayLab, a Los Angeles-based design studio, that developed the service’s new identity based on its activities and current level in terms of business and technology. While the previous Foursquare logos looked quite generic, featuring a cartoon character or representing a simple lettering (in the latest iteration), the updated visual identity of the service includes a new wordmark in the Authentic Sans 90 typeface, complemented by the FSQ abbreviation. As David Godycki, the art director of Foursquare, says, this design creates a scalable system retaining the company’s traditional playful style. In addition,…

Almost a year ago, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and French carmaker Groupe PSA signed a $50 billion deal launching a joint company called Stellantis. While the merger is expected to be completed in the spring of 2021, the management of this business project has unveiled a logo for the new brand. Actually, Stellantis had an emblem earlier, and the new iteration is a final touch on its visual identity before the company is completely formed. Based on the previous variant, the new logo represents a stylized wordmark distinguished with an “A” without a bar as well as “S”’s with peculiar curves….

Established in 1927, Cats Protection (formerly Cats Protection League) is one of the oldest animal care organizations in the United Kingdom. The charity’s mission includes rescuing and finding homes for homeless cats, supporting the neutering of cats, and raising awareness of cats and ways to take care of them. By updating its visual identity, which was fulfilled by the London-based design studio Lukecharles, Cats Protection hopes to tell about its values in a more clearer way, armed with a new and ambitious strategy. The charity’s old logo featured a depiction of a cat in the manner of a child’s drawing….

Established in 1982 to create a cultural alternative to BBC and ITV, According to Luke Powell, Pentagram’s creative director, Channel 4 had conducted research, defining what and why should be changed in its image to visually correspond with technological innovations, before it applied to the studio. One of the most important things for the broadcaster was to improve the recognizability of the Channel 4 content no matter on what platform people are watching it. Another priority of the channel for the rebranding was to “maintain the creative spirit inherent to Channel 4”. As 4creative’s head Lynsey Atkin explains, the agitational…