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Prime Video, Amazon’s streaming service, has launched a completely new visual identity by Emily Oberman and her Pentagram team. The rebranding, however, is not a big surprise as it is a result of a process which had been carried out since August 2022. Last year, Pentagram’s solution came from Amazon’s iconic smile-arrow and through the “dimple” sign. The formal distinction of the curved line thus becomes a “catalyst guiding the audience through the endless wave of their favorite content”, the Pentagram team explains. But the project goes beyond. This idea was embodied in the wave as one of the basic…

The logo of The package design got simpler, showing off a minimalistic style. The same goes for the new 7Up logo which has graphically become flatter in a way, getting rid of some elements, like the green bordering of the 7. Remarkably simplified, the outline of the digit now has less crookedness, which was previously emphasized by the roundness of the corners. So it feels more solid and vigorous, with sharper corners and straighter lines. However, the roundness was changed to a different design solution – a shadowing that is in accordance with the brand’s new color palette and reinforces…

Fifty years ago, Long-time fans of Pink Floyd surely know that the original Dark Side of the Moon of 1973 featured a cover depicting a triangular prism dispersing a white light beam into the colors of the rainbow. Designed by Hipnognosis, a design group that worked with many musicians and bands at that time, that gatefold became as classic as the album itself. But apparently, the new generation of fans is unaware of this fact as the cover logo for the re-edition caused a backlash when presented. Alluding to the 1973 edition, the anniversary logo combines a triangle, the number…

After acquiring Described as a “disaster” and a “perfectly awful branding” on the web, the emblem resembles a 1980s-style design as if it was taken from the Strange Things series. Given the mass layoffs that have been in Twitter in the last two months, this logo may have been created by an external design group. Or perhaps, it was compiled by a neural network like Midjourney or DALL-E 2 that are talked about so much lately. Maybe, we’ll never know who forged Twitter Blue’s logo, but anyway, it would be foolish to think that it was carried out by Musk…

Founded in 1955, Independent Television News is a British television production company that operates three news channels, including ITN’s new look was developed by London-based Rudd Studio and Undivided design agency. Working on the company’s visual identity, the joint designing team was keeping in mind ITN’s reputation as an independent and accurate news agency that pioneered much of the world of news. Based on research among the company’s staff and customers, a new brand positioning was created, under the slogan “Truth to Life” which reflects ITN’s shift to more diverse content including factual, entertainment, and corporate production. Feeling that the…

The Back in 2020, the German car maker introduced a new corporate identity. Now, the Ingolstadt-based brand is adjusting its trademark to its new-gen vehicles, designing the four rings logo in a stricter style. While the Audi 3D chromed car logo will soon become history, the brand is transiting to a flat emblem. The rings are now executed in white, and each of them is framed in a thin black bordering. Additionally, a black version will be provided, with the inner edges of the rings colored in dark gray. In general, this logo has to have a stylish glossy look….

Founded in 2012 by Amazon’s former supply chain engineer Apoorva Mehta, Instacart is a grocery delivery company that operates in the United States and Canada. As the coronavirus pandemic with the lockdown and increased demand for food delivery urged it to reorganize itself, the company felt the need to bring some refreshments into its visual identity as well. This task was commissioned to the international design studio Wolff Olins. For Instacart, the studio created an encompassing branding system called “Shop+Savor ethos” – this name, according to Wolff Olins, has to express the idea of how the service powers customers’ shopping…

At a special meeting, the Czech car brand Based on its “Next Level – Škoda Strategy 2030” published last year, the automaker has presented a fresh version of its visual identity. As the car industry is undergoing big changes, Škoda, according to the company’s CEO Klaus Zellmer, is facing new conditions, accelerating the development of the technology for e-mobility, software-supported vehicles, and customer-oriented solutions. By 2026, the company is going to launch three pure EV’s. The marque’s VISION 7S concept research gives a look at one of the models, first showing Škoda’s future branding. So the changes in the corporate…