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Started from a bet between two close friends in 2000, AO (formerly known as Appliance Online) has grown into the largest online household appliance retailer in the United Kingdom. In the 2010s, the company was strongly expanding its activity in Germany, the Netherlands and France. Seven years ago, it rebranded as ao.com and received a logo featuring its lowercase initials and a semicircle that made it look like a smiling face. Although its visual identity was quite recognizable, the company felt that it’s a bit dated, making the business lost amid its competitors. To carry out a “long overdue facelift”…

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…

In 1935, British writer and publisher Michael Joseph founded his own imprint and named it after himself. 50 years later, Michael Joseph Ltd, along with some other British and American imprints, was bought by Penguin Books, a prominent publishing house where it has received a leading role as a division specializing in lifestyle books, detective stories, memoirs and women’s fiction. To refresh Michael Joseph’s look, Penguin hired Mother Design which created a brand identity emphasizing the imprint’s heritage and individuality. Since its founding, Michael Joseph used a mermaid logo that appeared in several iterations over fifty years until the company…

In 1920, inventor and outdoor enthusiast Eddie Bauer launched his first store under the name “Eddie Bauer’s Tennis Shop” in downtown Seattle. Now, over 100 years later, the brand bearing his name is known as a large clothing chain with nearly 400 locations in the United States, Germany, and Japan. Recently, Eddie Bauer has updated its visual identity, abandoning its traditional signature-based logo, as did Johnson & Johnson not so long ago. The history of the retailer had some remarkable events that influenced, in a way, the brand’s new look. In 1936, Eddie Bauer invented and patented the Skyliner, a…

Following Pepsi, another soft drink brand has changed its logo. The famous In fact, Coca-Cola, the brand’s owner, is trying to build a synchronous and global identity on a new stage of its journey. Within this purpose, Fanta’s look was remastered by Jones Knowles Ritchie, a design agency known for its work with big food & drink brands. The rebranding resulted in a logo distinguished by cornered typography, keeping only blue and white as brand colors. Besides the orange, the Fanta logo has also ditched the green leaf. These two elements have been customary features of the emblem since 2008….

The Brazil brand comes back to the iconic design of 2005. The relaunch includes a campaign to reposition the brand and announce some plans in the new political cycle. Its main goal is to present Brazil as a multinational and multicultural country made up of different forms, ecosystems, rhythms, and colors. A country with clear prospects, which aspires to confirm its commitment to stable development. In this new stage, the Brazil brand is abandoning “nationalism” in terms of visual identity, which has been over the last four years under the rule of Jair Bolsonaro – a fact that may become…

Established in 1842, the New York Philharmonic is the oldest orchestra in the United States. Celebrating its 180th anniversary this year, the musical collective is changing its look again. Like New York City, New York Phil is constantly renovated, as an official press release says. The latest NYP visual identity update was six years ago when the orchestra marked 175 years of its journey. Now, the anniversary renovations also include the reconstruction of the David Geffen Hall which is a home for NYP. So, the orchestra opens a new chapter in its history. This attempt, as it is called in…

The brand Jazz Apple, owned by the New Zealand fruit & vegetable manufacturer T&G Global, has got a refreshment. The certified Jazz apple cultivar is also available in the UK, US, Australia and the EU countries. Now, the brand is to stand out from the crowd with a new premium apple type. The Jazz apple cultivar, which is a cross between Braeburn and Royal Gala, has been present on the market for 25 years. As T&G Global explains in its press-release, the way customers choose foods has changed. When it comes to snacks, customers pay more attention to healthy nutrition…