Popular workplace chat app Slack has unveiled a new logo design as part of a major rebranding campaign. The new look, which represents the first update to Slack’s brand identity since it launched in 2013, comes ahead of plans for the company to go public later on this year. “Our first logo was created before […]
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Mastercard has announced that it is dropping its name from its logo “in select contexts”, as the famous credit card brand readies for a digital future where physical cards may not be so prevalent. The interlocking red and yellow circles, referred to by the company as the “Mastercard Symbol”, will now stand on its own […]
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Pentagram’s Michael Bierut and his team have designed a new identity for popular social media-orientated website, Upworthy. The new logotype emphasises the UP in the name, with the U used as a container for imagery. An animated version of the logo has also been created to serve as a bumper at the end of Upworthy’s […]
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Pentagram’s Michael Bierut and his team have designed a new identity for New York-based theatre, Playwrights Horizons. The branding concept centres around a rotating cast of logos, all of which have been handwritten by the playwrights themselves. Each unique logo will therefore be associated with a particular production, and each will be added to an inventory […]
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New Yorkers on holiday in the Hamptons are said to often source their summer reading—and books for all year round—at independent bookstore BookHampton in the village of East Hampton on Long Island’s East End. Somewhat of a local landmark, which was originally established in 1971, the bookshop reopened this summer with a new owner, Carolyn […]
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Pentagram has updated the logo and identity design of Mastercard, whose red and yellow intersecting circles are arguably one of the world’s most recognised brands. Designed by Pentagram’s Michael Bierut, Luke Hayman and their teams, the new identity aims to bring simplicity and clarity with an added emphasis on the interlocking circles, and is optimised […]
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Pentagram’s Daniel Weil and Michael Bierut have collaborated on the design of the brand identity and packaging for HOTSHOT, a new sports drink that is claimed to prevent and treat muscle cramps. The supplement was invented by Dr. Rod MacKinnon, MD, a Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist and endurance athlete, in collaboration with Bruce Bean, PhD, a neurobiology professor […]
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