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Extended with two more clubs from South Africa to 16 teams, the Pro14 rugby league has changed its name to United Rugby Championship. Apart from the South African teams, the competition includes teams from Scotland, Ireland, Wales and Italy. Preparing to start the next season under the new name in September, URC has also unveiled a new visual identity. The league’s new look was developed by Thisaway, a branding agency from Bath, Somerset. The URC branding project, entitled “A different league”, was inspired by the fact that the transformed competition brings together teams from different cultures. In their work, the…

Since 1888, the food brand Manischewitz has been represented in American stores as an iconic example of high-quality traditional Jewish kosher products. What began as a small Jewish bakery in Cincinnati, Ohio, has grown into the leading distributor of kosher food in the United States. The company owes its success to the automated process of making matzo, which was invented by its founder, Dov Behr Manischewitz. As the Jewish community nears the Pesach celebration, where bread holds significance, the brand has introduced a new identity to reaffirm its festive and timeless spirit. Despite the brand’s previous recognition among loyal customers,…

Google Fonts, a font library launched in 2010, has received a new logo. As with The font library, previously known as Google Web Fonts, has long been a web standard. Ten years ago, the benefits of web fonts still had to be explained, while today the fonts, available on the service, are a usual part of web-sites. At the moment, Google Fonts offers 1043 font families that can be used for web-pages as well as print products. According to Google’s Material Design blog, the icons, created within the Material Design project, are also included in the Google Fonts catalog. So,…

Ahead of its third season, the National Indoor Soccer League has unveiled its new logo, which makes the image of the competition more individual and celebrates its efforts to develop professional indoor soccer nationwide. Indeed, the new logo of NISL is the next step in its branding, compared to the league’s old emblem, which resembled the logos of the The presented logo demonstrates a totally different design and looks like a crest, which is more in accordance with the design traditions of soccer and other team sports. The shield is distinguished by a stylized, cornered shape and thick lines, featuring…

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…

As the Netherlands’ Duncan Laurence with the song “Arcade” won the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest in Tel-Aviv, the next edition of the song festival will take place in Rotterdam in May of 2020. While the participating countries are going to choose who will represent them in the Netherlands, the contest’s Oversight Committee has unveiled the identity for the event. It should be mentioned that in Rotterdam, the Eurovision Song Conest will be celebrating its 65th anniversary, so the emblem for the 2020 ESC edition is dedicated to its history and described as “data-driven”. The logo, carried out by Clever Franke,…

The City of Moose Jaw, the Saskatchewan province, Canada, is planning an update of the city logo in 2020, as well as modernizing its website along with the new application launch. The 4th largest city in the province is situated on the bank of the Moose Jaw River and near the Trans-Canada Highway 48 miles (71km) west of Regina. Craig Hemmingway, Communications Manager for the City, lifted the veil of the new look of the future version of the logo. According to C. Hemmingway, the new logo, as well as the old one used to, will without doubt include the…

Vox Media, an independent modern media company, taking the leading position in its sphere, has updated the company corporate logo. The new look is developed by Triboro, New York-based design studio, together with Vox Media’s internal design team. There were two reasons for identity renovation. The first one was wish of the company to show the rapid evolution of the brand, and the second reason was the merger with New York Media, an inventive multi-platform company.   According to Vox Media, they tried to create a simple and at that expressive mark, which would not upstage diversified logos of their…