In 2014, Visa removed the yellow wing from its logo and made it even more corporate blue.
One of those rebrands that probably cost serious money, while 99% of people still went: “wait, it changed?”
In 2019, Warner Bros. brought in Pentagram for a rebrand.
According to polling, only 11% picked the new version. After the Discovery merger, the logo moved back toward the old shield.
Between 2012 and 2018, fashion brands suddenly decided that heritage was the problem.
Vintage marks, founder names, weird old details. All gone.
Everything had to become a clean, corporate, generic, ALL CAPS logo.
Does anyone know what the hell that was?
KFC has quietly refreshed its branding.
Colonel Sanders apparently got promoted in the demonic hierarchy and grew wings. Or claws.
Oh, and they updated the typography too.
Hard to believe, but Apple had its own game console.
It was called Pippin, made with Bandai, and it was basically a Mac-based multimedia box for the living room: games, CD-ROMs, internet access, and a $599 price tag.
Around 42,000 units were sold.
Baby on Board became popular in the mid-1980s as a product from the child safety brand Safety 1st.
It probably didn’t make anyone drive more carefully, but it quickly spread and turned from a boring sign into a weird competition in creativity.
Did your family have one?
The Michelin Man started as a stack of tires.
In 1894, Edouard Michelin saw a tire pile in Lyon and imagined it with arms.
In 1898, O’Galop turned it into Bibendum: a tire-bodied gentleman drinking nails and glass, because Michelin tires could “drink the obstacle.”
we just generated an image in the style of a da Vinci painting using AI
please describe, in as much detail as possible, what makes this inferior to a real da Vinci