Another High Street Rebrand

James L H · Tue 08 Jun, 2010 20.11

bilky asko wrote:

My County Council's logo - I'd say it's pretty nice.

Nice, but confusing on first site. Normally I get logos right away eg, the fed-ex logo but I thought that the two large letters were a "g".

Malpass93 · Tue 08 Jun, 2010 20.23

Scunthorpeshire's logo. Absolute horror show to be honest, Humberside's shield logo was much better...

bilky asko · Tue 08 Jun, 2010 20.53

jammy wrote:
bilky asko wrote:

My County Council's logo - I'd say it's pretty nice.
Nice, but confusing on first site. Normally I get logos right away eg, the fed-ex logo but I thought that the two large letters were a "g".

I must be the complete opposite to you - I've always got our Council's logo, but not the FedEx logo until someone pointed it out to me.

James L H · Tue 08 Jun, 2010 21.27

bilky asko wrote:
jammy wrote:
bilky asko wrote:

My County Council's logo - I'd say it's pretty nice.
Nice, but confusing on first site. Normally I get logos right away eg, the fed-ex logo but I thought that the two large letters were a "g".
I must be the complete opposite to you - I've always got our Council's logo, but not the FedEx logo until someone pointed it out to me.

This is what happens when logo designers try to be clever : not everyone gets the logo.

rdobbie · Tue 08 Jun, 2010 21.56

Here's the logo for Cheshire East which only came into existence last year when Cheshire County Council was split into two.

It's not a bad logo at all, but what I really love about it is the fact that it was designed in-house by one of the council's staff, so it was effectively free to the taxpayer.

nwtv2003 · Tue 08 Jun, 2010 22.21

Warrington Borough Council's logo, I think it's been around a couple of years now, it's quite unimaginative, it used to be a crest of some form, but they changed it for this generic nonsense.

madmusician · Wed 09 Jun, 2010 11.47

That is Suffolk County Council's logo - nothing special, but not too bad either.

That's Ipswich Borough Council's - although, they only have it in the footer of their website, preferring a plain text logo for the header.

steddenm · Wed 09 Jun, 2010 11.53

This is Hinckley and Bosworth's council logo...

Yuck!

And these haven't changed their logo for a hell of a long time...

These changed theirs recently...

And the little county has changed theirs!

Invent Meridian · Wed 09 Jun, 2010 13.21

Hampshire has a relatively boring and safe logo. Go to http://www.hants.gov.uk to view it since it will not appear here despite me having uploaded it twice.

Previously they used a special logo for small print purposes but this is no longer 'allowed'.

m-in-m · Wed 09 Jun, 2010 21.29

madmusician wrote:

That is Suffolk County Council's logo - nothing special, but not too bad either.

That's Ipswich Borough Council's - although, they only have it in the footer of their website, preferring a plain text logo for the header.

I'm not actually sure what my Borough Council's logo is - St Edmundsbury.

I can however provide neighbouring examples. Cambridgeshire County Council have:

While Cambridge City Council have:

I like both but think the County Council logo is simpler and more effective. The City Council logo seems a little "busy" to me.

ashley b · Thu 10 Jun, 2010 00.12

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:

To this:

Salford on the other hand have had a more subtle rebrand from this:

to this:

I've also just discovered that Bury council have rebranded from thier rather dated logo:

to one that looks like it's been done in word art:

Oldham's another to rebrand recently, changing from:

to

As has Bolton, by the same design agency as Oldham and Salford, though I can't find an example of it's old logo:

Manchester, Rochdale and Stockport all opt for coat of arms type logos and haven't changed recently, not that they need to really:

Unlike Tameside: