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Truist Financial Corporation, launched after the merger of BB&T and SunTrust Banks in December 2019, continues forming its new identity by unveiling a logo. The name for the merged company was announced in June 2019, and according to the banks’ representatives, it appeared as a result of branding researches and surveys among the employees and focus groups. However, “Truist” met some criticism for being an odd word that is hard to pronounce and “sounds like a medicine against arthritis or eczema”. Nevertheless, the branding process goes on, and the company has recently presented its visual identity intended to express its…

After the tragic accident in which the Kobe Bryant was killed along with his 13-year-old daughter and seven other people in a helicopter crash on January 26th. He finished his career in 2016 after being the key player of the Lakers for 20 years. Bryant assisted much his team in winning the NBA Finals for five times, and also was a two-time Olympics champion as a member of the US national team (2008 in Beijing and 2012 in London). The current href=”https://www.picpapa.com/nba-logo”NBA logo was created by Alan Siegel in 1969. According to the designer, while creating this iconic emblem featuring…

When the Canadian Energy Center, an organization advocating oil & gas industry safety, had unveiled its new logo in a tweet this Thursday, it called forth a backlash. It turned out that the CEC emblem is similar to the logotype of a US software company. On Tweeter, users noticed that the Canadian agency’s white dimensional blocks on a blue field is a copy of the patern in green used by the Boston-based Progress Software Corp. Informed of that, the US company thanked those who drew their attention to CEC’s new logo, saying they would be looking into this issue. Meanwhile,…

Microsoft is modernizing While redesigning icons, the main challenge was to show new look and maintain familiarity for PC users, said Jon Friedman, corporate vice president of design and research at Microsoft. He noted, that the other task of the redesign was to maintain consistency, because today some of the old icons after decades since their last renovation look rather dated and inconsistent. According to J. Friedman, the team of designers also had to create an open design system flexible enough to span a range of contexts while still remaining true to Microsoft.   In the refined icons software maker…

Since 2008, Danish brewing giant Carlsberg offers cider beverages under the brand Somersby. Initially, the Somersby cider of 4,5% abv was being sold in Danmark, then the brewing company gradually introduced its product in 46 countries across the globe. For a better marketing, Carlsberg created a special story saying that the branded cider was invented by English lord Somersby who supplied his excellent beverage for the Royal court. Recently, Somersby has received a new identity forged by Elmwood, a design company headquartered in Leeds, UK. While working on this “juicy challenge”, the designers proceeded from the idea of joy and…

The iconic Warner Bros. shield is changing again. This time, the redesign anticipates the revision for the whole WB brand family. The new version of the While the previous design was developed by Pentagram just three years ago, the current rebranding has been carried out by the design agency Chermayeff & Geismar & Haviv. The logo update won’t seem so surprising though if we remember that the movie giant is celebrating its centenary this year. Back in 2019, the total debt of AT&T, Warner Media’s owner, was enormous. The company was revising its business portfolio, with the emerging HBO and…

Although Middleburg has population of only 673, it is quite a renowned site in the United States. In 1863, the town was a place of two combats between Confederate troops and the Union Army’s cavalry. In the early 1900s, Middleburg grew popular among enthusiasts of horseback riding and foxhunting and eventually received the title of the Nation’s Horse and Hunt Capital. That’s why the horse and the fox had become the main candidates to be depicted on a new town logo. The rebranding was initiated in 2018 by the Town Council hoping that some refreshments of the Middleburg’s image will…

The premium soft drink brand Since the brand was founded in 1945, the Minute Maid logo has gone through only five iterations. The goal of the current overhaul was to unify the design, giving the brand a common identity in more than 100 countries where it is present today. Different product names are planned to be unified as well, depending on the market. The Minute Maid logo has kept its general design, with a black background, dropping, however, the green top. Thus, the emblem looks flatter, featuring a more rounded typeface in the spirit of the original design of 1945….