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The US food brand Campbell’s has taken the rebranding, carried out for the first time in many years, as a chance to launch an NFT Art Collection. The company owned designs, created by artist and illustrator Sophia Chang, which are based on the NTWRK e-commerce platform, the largest platform on the NFT market. Using the NFT system (non-fungible tokens), virtual merchandise, including digital pieces of art, can be assigned with a non-fungible token. Art objects, such as pictures, are increasingly being sold in digital form. More and more companies like Charmin or Taco Bell, as well as celebrities like Snoop…

Last July, just after his appointment, Renault’s CEO Luca de Meo announced a strategic plan to relaunch the Group’s brands. The relaunching plan, called Renaulution, envisages a change of the brands’ positioning to provide a more effective adaptation to the era of hybrid and electric vehicles. A few days ago, a tangible step on the Renaulution way was made when the company presented its new 5 Prototype concept car which can be seen as an electric revival of the Renault 5 manufactured from 1972 to 1996. Designed in the neo-retro style, the concept features the basic traits of that vintage…

Founded in 2001, the Superior International Junior Hockey League has rolled out its new logo and 20th anniversary emblem. As the league’s previous insignia, the new one unites the patterns of the US and Canada flags as the junior A circuit brings together teams from both countries. Introducing SIJHL’s new logo, Darrin Nicholas, the league’s commissioner, said that 20-year journey is a good reason to bring some changes into the visual identity of the league. For the rebranding, the league’s management held a competition among local designers and artists associated with SIJHL and the teams. And it was won by…

After Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th President of the United States, his administration has unveiled a new logo of the White House. While changing the presidential residence’s emblem under each new President has become traditional, the new iteration’s design represents something opposite to that of Donald Trump’s presidency. The work on the new White House logo began more than a month ago. For this, Joe Biden’s administration hired Wide Eye, a Washington-based design agency, that already cooperated with the Democrats, developing the visual identities for Camala Harris’ vice-presidential campaign and the Democratic National Convention. According to the…

The renaming of Twitter to X in July 2023 caused quite a stir, as Elon Musk’s unexpected move disappointed many users and raised concerns about the future of the social network. Amidst this backdrop, few people recall an interesting fact related to the short blog service – the existence of Bluesky, a twin of Twitter on the web. Bluesky was launched in 2021 by Twitter’s former CEO Jack Dorsey and software developer Jeremie Milller. It operates on a decentralized social network protocol and has been in test mode, with user sign-ups limited to pre-applications. Initially, Bluesky served as the name…

Growth of waste is one of the biggest issues of the present. According to some researches, the most quickly increasing waste stream today is electronic waste (or e-waste). Over 50 million tonnes of e-waste are produced in the world every year, but less than one fifth of it is designated for recycling. To draw public attention to the problem, Material Focus, a British organization advocating electronic waste recycling, has introduced a logo that is supposed to mark e-products to be recycled. The logotype is a result of Material Focus’ cooperation with the London-base design studio Truant, established as a part…

The Japanese premium car brand The design embodies the Japanese concept of Ma, a philosophy that is concerned with a space between things. Unlike the Western concept of minimalism, Ma exploits the empty space to maintain a balance between the elements. The rebranding was carried out by the Toronto-based studio Bruce Mau Design. This is the fourth iteration of the Infiniti logo since the brand was launched in 1989. The visual metaphor behind it is the infinite road to the horizon which becomes clearer with the separation of lines. Compared to the previous version, the new emblem is drawn with…

Identity updating is a common step taken by local authorities to attract more visitors to their cities or towns. Following this strategy, the Dalian Culture and Tourism department has recently unveiled a new logo for the city, hoping it will assist in development of the local economy. The refreshing of the visual brand of Dalian, wouldn’t have drawn much attention if the city’s new welcoming emblem weren’t so similar to Disney’s logo. Indeed, if you take a look at the Dalian logo, you can easily see that the “D” and the “i” with a swoop over it are quite identical…