“We’re a tech company now!” logo
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 🤷
I liked the old aibnb one.
Microsoft went from “boring with a bit of attitude” to just plain boring
DF gets points dedacted for missing the ü dots on both, looks absolutely stupid to a german speaker
Spot on.
Those old fashion logos are actually sick. Concerning that an industry that sells style would make these their logos.
Except eBay, that was always trash.
I wonder how much correlation there is between logo blandification and being owned by giant corporations.
All these minimalist labels save .0005¢ every time they’re printed, probably even more on promo booths, banners, and the like.
Aaaah then indeed that makes sense (and this is not ironic).
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.
I completly agree these logos are boring. The brand lost so much character and flare.
However I totally see “cost less” as one of the reason why these changes were pushed (especially for clothing brands).
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.
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.
Spotify and EBay made the right choices here, the new logos are way better.
It is subjective, I like the old eBay logo more, but dislike the old Airbnb one.
Well, they certainly fin in better with all the others.
Slightly misleading without showing the color, only slightly though
I fucking hate this minimalist design trend more than it is probably reasonable to hate an aesthetic. It’s got the personality of unfinished drywall.
Honestly I think unfinished drywall has more personality. It’s utilitarian and rough around the edges, without the shiny surface veneer.
That new Jaguar logo is like somebody took a beautiful old house full of exposed brick and wood work and put a coating of white paint over everything.
It should be those puprple and yellows of Corporate Memphis
The younger generation barely reads let alone reads cursive. This is next generation marketing you aren’t the audience I imagine.
Even if that’s what’s going on (or at least that assumption on the part of the design team is what’s going on), this is shit. You know what requires even less reading than script OR basic print? THE FUCKING PICTURE OF THE FUCKING JUNGLE CAT.
That’s what it is, isn’t it. Retirement in their design department, new hires and this is a Millenial message marketing to Gen Zers (and Alphas too, automotive preference starts early)
Top looks like it belongs on a nice sports car.
Bottom looks like you can find it on a new Multipla.
That font is awful. The G looks completely unrelated to any of the other letters.
The G looks completely unrelated to any of the other letters.
I see this, since half of the letters appear to be uppercase, and the other half lowercase:
JaGUar
Yeah, I see that, too, but at least everything else is all smooth curves. The hard angle on the g makes it stick out as super different.
JaGUar
Maybe they want everyone to pronounce it with heavy sarcasm and mockery.
Bottom text looks like it belongs on some short-lived product for flavoring water or a gas station energy drink.
No, the Multipla deserves better.
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.
It doesn’t say “car” at all either; no elegance or prestige. The old logo was sexy. New one looks like a logo for bottled water or something.
Edit: it’s like going from James Bond to
Austin PowersInspector GadgetAustin Powers has style. Crazy 60s style but style.
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.
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.
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.
It’s not joguor?
It might just be depending on how far away you are
>New logo is soulless slop
Every single company
Makes it easier to forget them and not being able to keep them apart. That’s really great for us. Less ads in our brains.
My favorite shit logo redesign is
KИ
I can’t believe anyone thought that was a good logo…
Somewhere in Jaguar HQ, a marketing firm convinced the CxO suite that the most pressing problem facing the company was that the logo was wrong. So, in the interests of the shareholders they write off the goodwill value of the existing brand and dump millions of euro into this.
Hah don’t worry, the existing brand is utterly fucked now. One of the worst, most unreliable and badly made cars on the market
One of the worst, most unreliable and badly made cars on the market
But enough about Tesla.
Everyone circlejerks about this online but every IRL owner I’ve actually spoken to say it’s the best car they’ve ever owned.
Yeah, because who wouldn’t want to drive a car from a company whose quality control policy is “don’t” that does welding like this?
And fit things together this well
It may be quick and pretty to look at if you don’t inspect it closely, but it has the price tag of a brand new Aston Martin and the build quality of an 80s Yugo.
So, I’ve never owned one, but did a test ride on a con. It was the most plasticy, janky mess I ever sat in. Ok, a Hummer I once sat in was maybe equally bad.
Every surface your hand could touch wasn’t fastened properly and moved in ways it shouldn’t. The door handles wiggled about. The touch screen replacing the middle console - absolute nightmare. The swinging door got stuck halfway.
You could say, all of this is the interior and not the engine. But it’s what the user interacts with. If I can’t trust the manufacturer from my experience with the door handle, I’ll have a hard time trusting them about the brakes.
Blimey, maybe their production quality varies based on which factory it was built in (or Euro NCAP have better quality control regs), the one I’ve been in was lovely!
I don’t know, I’m in Germany
It’s still a prestige brand in the eyes of the masses. It might not be as good a brag down at the country club, but letting the plebs know that you can afford a car that costs more than their house still has value.
It might not be as good a brag down at the country club
That depends on if you’re buying new or you have a classic roadster.
A starting price jaguar f-pace ev is about the same price as a Ford explorer, jsyk.
But who cares?
Sure, the idiots at jaguar are flushing their brand, but who cares?!? It’s their shit pile to destroy, after all…
It is more that there’s a grift happening. What’s the odds that theres a tenuous conflict of interest here with the various business and executives concerned? It’s a small cub and everyone scratches each other backs.
It takes a heroic amount of cocaine to make something so devoid of taste and see it through.
Wow, they really took their logo from sexy, fast and expensive looking, to looking like an over priced soft drink?
That’s impressive, haha.
It looks like an off brand sportswear shirt you’d find on an African market.
GUys I’m from
20402035, here’s Microsoft’s logo
MS corporate comms army did a sik job getting across those inscrutable monolith vibes, I bet when it launched they all clapped (even though clapping is in performance reviews)
BONUS: heres Amazon, Faceberg and Nvideo too (yay diversity)
spoiler
We’ve gone full circle again
JaGUar
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
I’m sure they spent an unreasonable amount of time getting that ugly font look just right.
It cost at last 50 million in a fancy name designer fees.
/uj Technically this is their new logo:
J a G U a r is just their new typeface (I think that’s the name?); and apparently/allegedly is to make the pronunciation closer to UK English, rather than American.
Either way, though - it’s still…
/j
…pReTtY fArKiN’ sToOoPiD.
I would have guessed that was a Puma logo.
Slazenger
You’re making that up.
typeface (I think that’s the name?);
Logotype.
You spell stoopid with three O"s. Maybe your the stoopid,
Yeah that’s pretty dummb
The font is ugly.
They went from luxury car company to mediocre smartphone brand
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