Another High Street Rebrand

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ashley b
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Here's a look mat the logos of the Greater Manchester Councils. Some horrific, some not so horrific.

In the last few years, Trafford council has had a major rebrand from this:
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Salford on the other hand have had a more subtle rebrand from this:
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I've also just discovered that Bury council have rebranded from thier rather dated logo:
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Oldham's another to rebrand recently, changing from:
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As has Bolton, by the same design agency as Oldham and Salford, though I can't find an example of it's old logo:
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Manchester, Rochdale and Stockport all opt for coat of arms type logos and haven't changed recently, not that they need to really:
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Unlike Tameside:
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*whistle*
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I've always like the North Yorkshire County Council logo, having grown up with it. No idea how long it's been around though.

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Selby District's logo is also quite nice, although it looks better without the box, which is very seldom used.
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I like this one...

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This is my councils's logo, which hasn't changed (apart from a font adjustment) since it was formed from part of the old Strathclyde Regional Council in the late 90s:

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madmusician wrote:Image

That is Suffolk County Council's logo - nothing special, but not too bad either.
Why have they one the "3D" so badly? It looks like they started off with a cube, but decided to change it into a shield.
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Its nice seeing all these quaint and cheesy logos for UK councils/cities, but who and how will the best ones be decided, perhaps we need a poll, a metropoll.


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ashley b wrote:Oldham's another to rebrand recently, changing from:
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That's the one that cost £100,000. Yep, you heard right. They paid an advertising agency ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS to design that. Absolutely un-bloody-believeable. It must have taken all of 2 minutes in Adobe Illustrator.
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bilky asko wrote:Image

My County Council's logo - I'd say it's pretty nice.
Well, it's safe to say that I have never before noticed that it's an n and a y sandwiched together, even though I've lived here for what, 5 years? I thought it was a g.

I demand an immediate rebrand.
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Mattarz wrote:
bilky asko wrote:Image

My County Council's logo - I'd say it's pretty nice.
Well, it's safe to say that I have never before noticed that it's an n and a y sandwiched together, even though I've lived here for what, 5 years? I thought it was a g.

I demand an immediate rebrand.
Why would North Yorkshire County Council have a 'g' as their logo?
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steddenm wrote:
Mattarz wrote:
bilky asko wrote:Image

My County Council's logo - I'd say it's pretty nice.
Well, it's safe to say that I have never before noticed that it's an n and a y sandwiched together, even though I've lived here for what, 5 years? I thought it was a g.

I demand an immediate rebrand.
Why would North Yorkshire County Council have a 'g' as their logo?
Why do Birds fly? Why do Fish swim?
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ashley b wrote:Here's a look mat the logos of the Greater Manchester Councils. Some horrific, some not so horrific.
You missed one - unless, of course, you were waiting for me to put it up, with me living in the borough and all that.

The missing one is:
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I think the idea is to make the right hand half look like a tick, as if some schoolteacher's marked the council and deemed it acceptable. Which it isn't, but that's another story.

I much prefer their original logo, which incidentally was shared by Wigan Athletic FC before they too rebranded:

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(As an aside, the town's pre-1974 crest is still in use, as the logo of Wigan RLFC.)



Concerning the former Warrington crest:

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I suspect the secularist element objected to the fact that it mentioned God, albeit in Latin (the motto is "Deus Dat Incrementum" - God gives the increase) - which presumably gave the powers that be an excuse for a complete rebrand. I could, of course, be completely wrong about that, but that's my theory.
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