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Gap, Digg.com: How to Respond to Critics

Recent redesigns by Digg.com and Gap stress the importance of humility in the social media age.READ»

Today's Google Doodle Is a Ballsy Move Into Web Coding Future

Google's doodle today is a rare thing--one of their interactive efforts. It's a load of balls. Bouncing, colored balls that make up the famous Google logo. Everyone's pondering why. We think we know. READ»

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NBA's Sudden Glut of Retro Logos Explained

Gary Singer, CEO of the marketing neuroscience firm Buyology, theorizes on the NBA's new yen for all things yesteryear.READ»

Seattle’s Best Coffee Logo Is a Blend of the Bland

In the spirit of full disclosure, I confess that I drank my last cup of coffee 35 years ago. So I shouldn’t care about the re-branding of a legacy Seattle coffee merchant. However, the new logo introduced last week by ...READ»

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BP Logo Gets Oily, Gruesome Redesigns Courtesy of Greenpeace Followers

Greenpeace asks you, gentle public, to redesign BP's logo to more aptly convey its dirty ways. Skulls and crossbones welcome.READ»

God, Guns, Graphics: Pentagram's Michael Bierut on Busted Christian Militia's Branding

What was the militia--now infamous after nine members were just arrested--trying to communicate about itself in its logo?READ»

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Brands in the Blink of an Eye

So which of today’s great brands can survive the blink test? Using this model Ken Carbone has composed this “thirty second spot” showing thirty brands from various categories to see how many their logo designs are identifiable. ...READ»

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Caribou vs. Starbucks: Go Big or Go Homey [UPDATE from Starbucks]

Caribou's redesign makes a claim for Starbucks's pseudo-authenticity.READ»

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Logo Hail Mary: Landor Unveils the NFL's New Brand Strategy

A new logo system will wipe away the year-to-year changes in the Super Bowl logo design.READ»

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Dissecting the New Super Bowl Logo

The new branding is mean and bold, befitting of the nation's manliest past time.READ»

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Design Crimes: The Logo from Hell!

Recent declassified reports finger Screen Gems as perpetrator of countless freak-outs in early 1970s.READ»

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Microsoft Bing: The Worst-Designed Logo of 2009?

What makes the Microsoft logo so bad, according to branding boffins.READ»