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Mountain Hardwear: Industrial aesthetics for fearless adventurers
Mountain Hardwear: Industrial aesthetics for fearless adventurers

In 1993, a group of young and bold iconoclasts created Mountain Hardwear, a company that grew into a leading name in the outdoor apparel and equipment industry. Now, the brand embodies the spirit of adventures and discovering, uniting technology innovations and thoughtful design to meet the needs of outdoor enthusiasts all over the world, while Mountain Hardwear products can be used in versatile outdoor activities, including camping, climbing, cross-country running, and mountain sports. To liven up its production strategy and expand its reach and celebrarte its 30th anniversary, the Richmond, CA-based company has recently carried out a complete revision of…

Tesla Cybertruck logo leaked ahead of the new vehicle’s presentation
Tesla Cybertruck logo leaked ahead of the new vehicle’s presentation

Last week, Elon Musk announced in his tweeter that Judging on the Cybertruck logo, the car might be named CYBRTRCK as the lettering lacks the “E” and “U”. Anyway, as if inspired by sci-fi movies, the badge looks quite stylish and futuristic while each letter is drawn with just a couple of strokes. Such a design reminds the SpaceX logotype with its broken lines, conforming much to the spirit of Tesla. Whether a badge like that will appear on the front or rear end of the truck or not, the trademark is certainly an excellent example of Tesla’s creativity and…

Wolff Olins repositions grocery brand Instacart
Wolff Olins repositions grocery brand Instacart

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…

Train your memory with 1000 Logo Quiz
Train your memory with 1000 Logo Quiz

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…

Nivea: Rejuvenating the brand
Nivea: Rejuvenating the brand

The personal care brand First thing to notice in the new logo is a lighter shade of blue. On closer examination, you may also see some changes in the wordmark which is designed in a thinner font now, and this makes the spaces between the letters visually larger. Compared to the previous version, the lettering looks airier. Nivea is one of the few brands that copyrighted its branded color. The Nivea Blue (Pantone 280 C) is registered as a trademark since 2007. However, the status of the new Nivea blue is not clear yet. Anyway, the fact that the redesigned…

Eredivisie’s Willem II updates its logo
Eredivisie’s Willem II updates its logo

Playing in the Netherlands’ football top division Eredivisie, the Willem II is approaching to its 125th anniversary the club will celebrate next season. On this occasion, the team has updated its logo. The new emblem, which is the sixth iteration in the club’s history, was created, considering the traditional symbolism of Willem II as well as the long-time wishes of fans to return to the logo basics used from 1952 to 1983. The traditional colors of the team from Tilburg have always been red, white and blue, accordingly to the Netherlands’ national flag. Based on this fact and the design…

Bauer Media Group rolls out breakthrough identity, signaling its global status
Bauer Media Group rolls out breakthrough identity, signaling its global status

Founded in 1875, Bauer Media Group is one of the oldest publishing companies in Germany. Evolving into a multimedia conglomerate, the business group owns and operates over 1000 magazines and electronic products, as well as more than 50 TV and radio channels in Germany and abroad. Adapting to contemporary market conditions, BMG recently unveiled its new visual identity, which celebrates diversity and aims to inspire and enrich the entire community. With its headquarters in Hamburg, Bauer Media Group has a workforce of nearly 15,000 employees across 18 countries. Under the leadership of Yvonne Bauer since 2010, the corporation is gradually…

The Unity Of Belarusian Opposition
The Unity Of Belarusian Opposition

Three oppositional parties united under one logo in order to try and lead the country to a better and brighter future. On July 16th, the headquarters of the leading opposition participants of the presidential election in Belarus Viktor Babariko and Valery Tsepkalo announced their support of Sviatlana Tikhanovskaya, who was registered and a presidential candidate. The new campaign, created for a united opposition, is based on three,  women: Sveltala Tikhanovskaya herself, Maria Kolesnikova, the manager of Babariko headquarters, and Veronica Tsepkalo, wife of Valery Tsepkalo. The main idea of the campaign as a whole and its logo, in particular, is…

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