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For a number of years, Google has systematicly been changing the logos for its online services, making a consistent visual brand range. Now it’s time for Gmail as the company has released a teaser demonstrating the outlines of the upcoming While the teaser can’t be considered as an official announcement, it’s worth noting that the Gmail emblem is a rare Google logo which doesn’t maintain Google’s yellow-red-blue-green color palette. So, it won’t be a big surprise if Google’s mail service will officially receive a new logotype to be more coherent with the other products of the company. As you can…

Casey’s General Store, a gas station and convenience store chain operating in 16 states in the Midwest, is changing its look for the first time since its inception in 1959. Realizing that its name is too long and its logo is too complicated for 2020, the company has shortened the former to just Casey’s and simplified much the latter. According to Casey’s, the rebranding was preceded by a research which showed that the “General Store” was unclear for younger customers, and the logo, representing a big barn with the company’s name in serif fonts and a weathercock on the top,…

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”…

It turned out to be that The unifying design motifs are Google’s four-color scheme and the color overlapping in the corners of the icons that makes them perceived a bit three-dimensional, albeit it doesn’t eliminate the flat look in general. Also, we can notice that the corners themselves have grown more rounded. This is particularly evident in the Google Drive logo. In addition, it is the only emblem of the five which maintained a three-color palette (yellow-green-blue) in its previous version, and adopted only a red corner in the new iteration. At the same time, the most changes can be…

It seems that Google is not alone in trying to unify the brands in terms of visual identity. This idea is likely supported by Facebook that has recently unveiled an updated logo for its Messenger app, as the design of the new emblem resembles the While the logo’s general forms, including the central bolt, have remained the same, the change concerns the logo’s coloring. Switching from blue to gradient of blue and pink with some orange hues, the icon really reminds of the colors of the Insta’s camera. Although an announcement from Facebook says nothing about the connection between the…

Officially founded in 1833, Glengoyne is a popular Scottish brand producing different malt whiskies with an average age of 25 years. Such a long aging of the whiskies corresponds to one of the principles of the Glengoyne distillery – deliberation – that formed the basis of the company’s new visual identity. The renovated look of Glengoyne was forged by the Bristol-based design agency Taxi Studio. According to the studio’s head Karl Wills, the process of the design revamping can be called a “respectful rejuvenation”, being based on the distillery’s motto “unhurried” as it reflects how the company takes care of…

Established in 1951, Liberty Travel is a travel and cruise company that, from its beginning, pioneered in offering transportation, hotel accommodation and other services for a single price. The company’s service and pricing innovations made traveling more affordable not only for the wealthy, but also for ordinary people. While going to celebrate its 70th anniversary next year, the agency has unveiled a new logo paying tribute to its heritage. Although Liberty Travel is now headquartered in Montvale, New Jersey, it started from an office in New York’s Time Square. These are its roots and connection with New York the company…

Almost a year ago, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and French carmaker Groupe PSA signed a $50 billion deal launching a joint company called Stellantis. While the merger is expected to be completed in the spring of 2021, the management of this business project has unveiled a logo for the new brand. Actually, Stellantis had an emblem earlier, and the new iteration is a final touch on its visual identity before the company is completely formed. Based on the previous variant, the new logo represents a stylized wordmark distinguished with an “A” without a bar as well as “S”’s with peculiar curves….