• Aksamit@slrpnk.net
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    4 months ago

    Wow, they really took their logo from sexy, fast and expensive looking, to looking like an over priced soft drink?

    That’s impressive, haha.

  • tallpaul@lemm.eeEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Skoda have done something similar with their latest offering. No Skoda badge, no radiator grill. Just SKODA in a boring font.

  • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
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    4 months ago

    I love how the new logo could be literally done in less than a minute on fucking microsoft office. They didn’t even bother with a cool looking font, just generic curvy shit

      • m_f@midwest.social
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        4 months ago

        I think it’s just a long-running trend across many different companies towards simplification. Here’s the Apple logo for example:

        • drathvedro@lemm.ee
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          4 months ago

          Gotta say, the original Newton logo would’ve looked sick if engraved on the back of a product. Too bad nobody has ever done it.

        • selokichtli@lemmy.ml
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          4 months ago

          I don’t see it. In this case, I see basically the same since 1977, or being strict, 1998. Unless they go for just " A P P L E " next. It’s, in my view, a big step to abandon a graphic for letters.

        • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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          4 months ago

          Oh, I wasn’t being entirely serious, though there is an element of truth to it. It probably is a measurable cost savings over the scale of the business.

          I still think these unremarkable corporate logos are boring AF. Just makes them visually soulless along with just being corporate soulless.

      • Rinox@feddit.it
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        4 months ago

        I think it has more to do with being readable on small screens, like mobile phones. It still doesn’t make sense to me to completely remove your logo and replace it with a sans serif name of your company like jaguar just did.

        • Hackworth@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          4 months ago

          All the companies are gonna merge over the next decade or so, leaving a handful of megacorporations to lord over our cyberpunk dystopia. It’s just easier if all their logos already look the same.

    • Electric@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      Those old fashion logos are actually sick. Concerning that an industry that sells style would make these their logos.

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      Better:

      • Revolut (though a fintech company named after a revolution lacking the charge at the end is still moronic in several ways)
      • airbnb (from awful to meh)
      • Spotify (same)

      Worse:

      • Pinterest (original fit the platform and what it is/was pretty much perfectly. Current is meh)
      • eBay (both are bad IMO, but at least the original was bad in a playful and eye-catching way. The new one is just more meh
      • Burberry (the stag was notable and signalled a history of old-fashioned quality that’s suitably rugged. The new one is meh AND insecure about people knowing which London they’re from)
      • Rimova (yet another fashion brand apparently afraid of being noticed
      • DF (from one of the best and most fashion-appropriate logos to an absolute eyesore and kerning nightmare that invites vandalism)
      • Jaguar (From absolutely iconic and great in every way to even uglier than the new DF one. I hope whomever came up with that got both fired and beaten and I’m a pacifist.)

      The rest just go from meh to slightly different meh 🤷

  • FauxPseudo @lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I would have failed every design class I took in college if I submitted that. Why such wide kerning? Why lower case but upper G? Why so round? Why so completely unreadable at a distance because of micro serifs? There isn’t one good design element in this.

    • Asidonhopo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      I think they want people to focus on the “agua” and the j and r are just little accents on it like its word art rather than a logo. Like, I literally picture the marketing weirdos at the meeting going off like this.

      • FauxPseudo @lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        The “a” is the worst part for me. You can’t see those little stubbs at a distance. So it reads JoGuor at a distance. They didn’t just fail to create a good logo, they failed to preserve the name. One bit of advice I always give is “imagine this logo on the back of a golf card or a Pride brochure. If the logo isn’t crisp and readable in black and white in a 1/2 inch square then it sucks.” This design fails that test. Not just because of the messed up “a” but the wide spacing makes those unreadable "a"s even smaller than if the letters weren’t so widely spaced.

    • nepenthes@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      It doesn’t say “car” at all either; no elegance or prestige. It looks like a logo for bottled water or something.

        • nepenthes@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          4 months ago

          Ya, I wanted to use a bland spy but there aren’t any-- I was going to use the Spy vs Spy guys because they are the most generic-looking, but ultimately I kept Powers because while he is stylish and fun, he is also really immature and the logo looks immature to me.