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Tuesday, March 04, 2008

Corporate identity recognition (CIR)

So I was perusing the internet(s) as I like to do, and I came across some revised logos, specifically web 2.0fied logos (for example.) After a quick perusal of various logo "revamps" I decided to test the identity recognition of various major logos by running them through photoshop. I am also partly inspired by the book "IT'S NOT HOW GOOD YOU ARE, IT'S HOW GOOD YOU WANT TO BE" by Paul Arden; this book covers a lot of great rules for emerging into the marketing world a leader. There is a picture devoted to a Nike brand, where the logo is set in a hall and blurred -- the logo is still very recognizable. With this same premise I took 6 logos and pixelated them as much as possible before I lost the recognition. I think this could be a useful rule-of-thumb for gauging logo designs, though keep in mind this kind of recognition comes with many years of umbrella branding schemes designed to adhere to the "essence" and market share that allows vast globalization. Can you guess them?




(From top: Starbucks, Microsoft, Coca-Cola, Google, McDonalds, Nike)

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