Brewer and pub chain Greene King is dumping around 200 classic painted pub signs that depict names such as the Crab & Winkle and Dog & Partridge, in favour of replacing them with generic green and gold banners highlighting its preferred term of "Pub and Flame Grill" instead. Men who favour cloudy ciders are not happy. Read More >>

I've been fascinated with this premise for years now, and this week I saw this popular graphic pop up yet again: Read More >>

The film Star Wars premiered on May 25, 1977. To celebrate its 36th anniversary (a little late, I know), I’m examining the evolution of the film’s logo. Read More >>

In a book called Branding Terror, Francesco Trivini Bellini and former United Nations counter-terrorism analyst Artur Beifuss compiled the logos and brand identities of terrorist organisations "from al-Qaeda to the Real IRA" and analysed them as they would any logo. It's fascinating to approach the identity of the terrorists from a graphic design perspective. Read More >>

It's not uncommon for a company to redesign its logo over the years (or decades) but for a startup like Spotify who hasn't been around that long (compared to Microsoft, for instance), it was rather unusual to see the streaming music service ditch its quirky logo for something simpler last month. And with the new logo and icon rolling out to desktop users this week, we just had to find out the who/what/where/when/why. Read More >>

At first sight, the two logos above look so similar that you might think they're the same product. But are they? Nope. The image on the right is the logo for Google Glass, the futuristic glasses from Google that just arrived in the hands of the first lucky explorers. The image on the left, however, is the logo of a Spanish start-up based in LA and founded in 2008 that now is thinking about suing Google for coping its name, logo and typography. Read More >>

All the logos you see around you? They're eventually going to change some day. It might be because they get outdated, or it might be because of a new CEO's quirky taste. It might even be because the company has some vain hope to rebrand itself as more modern, more friendly, or more whatever it is to get you to buy more of its products. Just take a look at some logos of famous brands. Even those that still look the same have added some embossing or shading. Read More >>

ITV's just launched its total rebrand, the biggest change to the UK's second biggest broadcaster in the last 12 years, and it's not exactly gone over well. The critical response has been pretty much universally bad, but what do you think? Has ITV just become hip, or is a logo that looks like a child practicing joined-up writing the embodiment of fail? Read More >>

Since 1940, Batman's been haunting the streets of Gotham, busting perps in ways only he can manage, but his logo, well that's changed quite a bit over the years. From the classic oval-shaped Batman Returns, to the pointy, sharp-looking Dark Knight, complete with lethal ninja death stars, here's the evolution of the iconic bat. Read More >>

A picture can paint a thousand words, but a logo only needs to say one. It might take a few decades for these companies to refine their style, but they've come a long way in finding their visual voice. Read More >>

Comic Sans is so universally reviled on the Internet that it's become hilarious when people actually try to use it. I wish I could be like those people who can look at Comic Sans and just see it as a happy font. I wish I could see the entire world in Comic Sans and love it. I wish every company's logo was in Comic Sans. Read More >>

Google has one of the most iconic logos of all time, in spite of itself. There's nothing charming about it except for its massive, comforting familiarity. But what if Google (and the rest) swapped in a luscious, retro look? Read More >>

In a hilarious court ruling, Apple got denied a trademark on its orange music icon (the one that's on iOS devices) because trademark judges said consumers might confuse the logo with one owned by MySpace. Hah! Read More >>