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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…

Scottish Hockey, Scotland’s governing body for the sport of field hockey, has unveiled a new logo intended to refresh the image of the organization. The “look for the future” was forged by Michael Bremner Studio from Glasgow in cooperation with artist Erin Bradley-Scott. Developing Scottish Hockey’s visual identity, the designing team has carried out an all-embracing work including a survey among the sports institution’s members. As a result, they drew up an emblem focusing on the thistle, a national symbol of Scotland. While Scottish Hockey had the thistle on its crest more than 20 years ago, the new iteration can…

The toy brand Steiff, known for its plush toys, has rolled out a new visual identity. The updated look is focused on the famous Teddy bear which is celebrating its 120th anniversary this year. Steiff was founded in 1880 as a reformed company that evolved from a felt goods business owned by Margarete Steiff in Giengen, Germany. In 1902, a plush bear, which was designed by Margarete’s nephew Richard Steiff and wore the ordinary production name Bär 55 PB, was “born”, having movable arms and legs. One year later, the bear got popular in the United States after an American…

The creators of 1000logos.net, the largest and most popular web portal on logo history, have released a new app game in which you can check how well you know the emblem of the world’s brands and companies, and how thoroughly you studied the content of their website. The new game is released in both iOS and Android versions. Now you can test your knowledge of brands and their logos by playing 1000 Logo Quiz, an app with more than 3,000 puzzles in which you have to guess the logos of brands from different fields, including cars, fashion, food products, and…

Established as World Air Network in 1990, Air Japan has received a new brand identity as a part of a changed corporate strategy. From now on, the airline will position itself as a friendly and careful company that has to be expressed by the brand’s new logo and Fly Thoughtful statement. In October 2020, ANA Holdings, the parent company of Air Japan, announced a total reorganization of the airline, urged by the financial crisis after the COVID-19 pandemic broke out. Until recently, Air Japan was hardly known as a brand. Now, the situation is going to be changed. The first…

The While the National Brand of Australia has been in existence for almost four years, it is managed by the Advisory Council established by the government. According to an official statement, the goal of the National Brand is to develop a stronger and more unified visual identity that could improve the country’s image and global competitiveness. The first attempt to implement such a brand failed, opposed by the Australian public. As critics said, many people saw in the logo a resemblance to coronavirus as the emblem featured a round flower of wattle, a vegetable symbol of Australia. As a result,…

City logos is a special topic. Often, new emblems meet critics from residents and people on social media for the odd design or lack of expressiveness. And that’s the case of the city of Florence, Alabama, where the new city logo even made the residents create a petition on Change.org requesting to restore the previous insignia. At the moment, the petition has collected almost 8,000 signatures as people are resenting the renovation of Florence’s logotype. The emblem features a capital “F” and “lo”, placed one on another, forming a kind of an exclamation mark. In the full version, the “lo”…

Having a more than 80-year history, the chocolate brand M&M’s is launching a new rebranding, announcing a strategy oriented towards public communications, inclusiveness and diversity. To emphasize these values, the new identity focuses on the brand’s recognizable ampersand. M&M’s new look was created by Jones Knowles Ritchie, a prominent design agency known for its works with big food brands like Burger King and Baskin-Robbins’. Including a lot of details, the project deals not only with visual branding but also a verbal image and the storytelling about M&M’s individuality. Fulfilling its mission, JKR developed a flexible visual identity that allows the…