Another High Street Rebrand

steddenm · Thu 10 Jun, 2010 02.04

I like this one...

LaSeandre · Thu 10 Jun, 2010 04.07

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:

bilky asko · Thu 10 Jun, 2010 19.01

madmusician wrote:

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.

martindtanderson · Thu 10 Jun, 2010 23.59

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.

<groans>

rdobbie · Fri 11 Jun, 2010 00.33

ashley b wrote:Oldham's another to rebrand recently, changing from:
to

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.

Cache · Fri 11 Jun, 2010 09.21

bilky asko wrote:

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.

steddenm · Fri 11 Jun, 2010 11.12

Mattarz wrote:
bilky asko wrote:

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?

Invent Meridian · Fri 11 Jun, 2010 11.46

steddenm wrote:
Mattarz wrote:
bilky asko wrote:

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?

Parbold 103.53 · Fri 11 Jun, 2010 12.28

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:

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:

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

Concerning the former Warrington crest:

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.

AxG · Fri 11 Jun, 2010 13.04

Here's the lot that make up Derbyshire:

Invent Meridian · Fri 11 Jun, 2010 15.16