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Founded in 1901 as the Cleveland Blues, the As the franchise announced last Friday, MLB’s team will be renamed to the Cleveland Guardians after the 2021 season has ended. The rebranding has entirely been foreseeable. While the team replaced its primary logo, depicting the comic-style Chief Wahoo, to the big “C” in 2013, it continued using the emblem as one of their alternate insignias. Both the Chief Wahoo emblem and the Indians name have been subjects of criticism from different quarters for many years. In particular, many people from Native American communities consider them racist and offensive. Back in early…

The payment services provider Seven years ago, Visa used the start of the Olympic Games (the company has been “a global Olympic partner” for a long time) to alternate its trademark. And the changes, unveiled a few days ago, partly bring back the Visa design which was used before 2005, including the tricolor card symbol as an addition to the main logo. The Visa wordmark itself received a new shade of blue. Visa’s renovated brand identity is a part of the company’s global marketing campaign launched at the start of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. The Meet Visa campaign focuses…

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…

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…

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…

Located in London’s Whitehall, the building known as the Old War Office was used as the headquarter of the UK’s war department from its completion in 1906 to 2014. After the reformed Ministry of Defence had moved to the Main Building, the OWO was sold to Hinduja Group which announced that the building would be converted to a kind of a luxury hotel with residential apartments. Aiming to develop the image of the new hotel, the owners hired design agency Greenspace that created a branding involving the OWO’s history as well as graphic motifs from the early 1900’s. Despite today’s…

While Ireland is hosting the 2021 FIBA European Championship for Small Countries, the basketball governing body of the country, Basketball Ireland, has rolled out its visual identity including a new logo and web-site. The organization hopes that the renovated look will help the Irish players proudly represent their country in international competition. BI’s new logo was created by designer Adam Ingler who is no stranger to basketball as his parents, Annette and Marc, are the founders and coaches of the DCU Mercy, a basketball team of the Dublin City University, and Adam himself played in this club as well as…

Founded in 1985, the Dutch fashion brand Scotch & Soda is betting on its brand-new design and refurbishment concept for its stores, as a part of its new expansion strategy. The facades of some Scotch & Soda boutiques have already been decorated with the label’s remastered logo. The first sketches of the company’s new logo were presented last spring. Now, when Scotch & Soda is adding new stores to its over 200 facilities across the world, the brand’s facelifted look is more visible. The fashion label’s collection includes men’s, women’s and  children’s clothing as well as sun glasses, fragrance and…