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Launched in 1989, Telcel is a leading Mexican wireless telecommunications company. Currently, Telcel’s cellular network covers over 73% of the country’s geographical area. Recently, the company updated its visual identity by removing the iconic phone symbol that had been present since its inception and redesigning the wordmark. Although Telcel made its appearance in the late 1980s, its roots can be traced back to 1981 when it became Mexico’s first mobile radio service, providing phone connections in cars. Presently, the provider boasts 83 million users and an annual turnover of $12 million. Interestingly, the company has a long history predating the…

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….

Officially established in 1881, the Natural History Museum in London is one of the world’s oldest institutions dedicated to the natural sciences. Its collection includes over 70 million exhibits on botany, zoology, mineralogy, and paleontology. As it gets closer to its 150th anniversary, NHM is undergoing some renovations. Highly appreciated by the British people, this place has been the most visited indoor site in the United Kingdom over the past few years. Enjoying its popularity among the scientific community and ordinary people, the museum has undertaken a visual rebrand to confirm its position of a leading scientific voice in discussions…

While announcing new desktop and monitor models for its Omen gaming line-up, HP has unveiled the brand’s new logo that should symbolize the developing of the company’s gaming direction. Omen derives from Voodoo, a luxury computer brand acquired by HP in 2006. Although the company gave a new name to the brand, it left the Voodoo logo unchanged then. Keeping the “tribal mask” diamond meant the continuity of the VoodooPC technology including water cooling and top Nvidia video cards. Later, HP refreshed Omen’s logo by putting the Voodoo mask in white into a red-to-white gradient square. But new times requires…

Located in Utica, NY, Munson (formerly Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute) is one of the oldest arts centers in the state, as it was established in 1919 by Mary Munson-Williams and Frederick and Thomas Proctors, based on their family art collections, which were partly initiated by entrepreneur Alfred Munson. Designed by the famous architect Philip Johnson, the museum building hosts a substantial permanent collection of internationally recognized works. Apart from it, Munson includes a Performing Arts division, providing a stage for solo singers and bands as well as artistic and educational activists. Rebranding itself with a shorter name now, the arts center…

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…

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…

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…