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Deciphering Logos: Graphic Designer Swaps Brand Names for Fonts Used

Pop quiz: can you identify these iconic companies by their typefaces alone? Italian graphic designer Emanuele Abrate decided to run an experiment of sorts and trade names for fonts. In his ...

Shirt Swap: 10 Endangered Animal Species Replace Iconic Alligator Logo

One of the most recognizable brand marks in the world -- the curled alligator on Lacoste shirts -- stepped out of the spotlight temporarily to make way for a series of endangered species, helping ...

Organized by Accuracy: 10 Famous Company Logos Drawn From Memory

Aside from outliers like Adidas, which acquired its logo for a few thousand dollars and two bottles of booze, big brands often spend millions (or more) on logo design, but how memorable are the ...

Brand Re-Versioning: Trading Logos with the Competition

Our brains recognize brands before we even get to the text ... but what happens when that second of the process process yields the reverse of what we expect? In this series of experimental ...

Sleek Internet Logos Echo Metal-Etched Japanese Cameras

There is something simply elegant about type-embossed metal - in part the association with classic high-end manual cameras. This logo series takes that typology and applies it to a series of ...

Con Jobs: 10 Outrageous Apple Brand Ripoffs

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then a host of eager entrepreneurs really, REALLY admire Apple Inc. and its visionary founder & CEO, the late Steve Jobs. Dodging Cupertino's ...

Political Animal: The Ever-Evolving Republican Elephant Logo

In November of 2010 the Republican Party pulled off the most lopsided midterm elections victory in a generation or more; really something to trumpet about! Speaking of which, the use of an elephant ...

Radical Redesigns: 42 Creative Logo Contest Design Ideas

(Above Designs, Clockwise from Upper Left via:  Pinoy Athena, iKnod, Mukhtar & Bloc) Much of what we feature on WebUrbanist is the culmination of an artistic or designer process, but it is ...

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