Another High Street Rebrand

Alexia · Sat 23 Jan, 2016 22.20

all new Phil wrote:I'm just gutted at the prospect of losing the "Northern welcomes you to Blackpool North" sign in Comic Sans

Apply for vintage status.

Andrew · Sun 24 Jan, 2016 00.08

james2001 wrote:Will they go round changing all the station signs they've replaced with ones in Northern's corporate style over the past decade? They'd have been better off just leaving them as the old British Rail style.

What is notable is that I think Northern replaced the station signs across their entire network, including ones in PTE areas that were generally in PTE house style rather than the TOC, and also stations in rural back waters that still had Regional Railways signs.

Might be why they are keeping purple, as I think many stations in the north west, including Blackpool were painted pink, lampposts etc during First North Western operations, which had to then be repainted purple.

woah · Tue 26 Jan, 2016 18.38

The logo for the Special Olympics GB National Games 2017 seems to have taken some design cues from the new Morrisons logo...

Alexia · Tue 26 Jan, 2016 22.18

And NBC.

JAS84 · Thu 28 Jan, 2016 18.59

Yorkshire Building Society are axing the Barnsley and Chelsea brands. I guess we could've seen this coming when they adopted their generic Y logo. Norwich & Peterborough is unaffected.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-35423090

WillPS · Fri 29 Jan, 2016 00.52

Interesting. I think they might be aiming for a Halifax/BOS type situation, where regardless of the brand on the fascia, N&P Current Accounts and YBS Savings/Mortgages are on offer.

JAS84 · Tue 09 Feb, 2016 22.48

FIrst the EFL, now the Premier League have announced a branding refresh too.

Alexia · Tue 09 Feb, 2016 23.15

Plenty of room for a sponsor. Unless they're going the Champions League / European Champions Cup route.

Philip · Tue 09 Feb, 2016 23.50

Alexia wrote:Plenty of room for a sponsor. Unless they're going the Champions League / European Champions Cup route.

“From next season we will move away from title sponsorship and the competition will be known simply as the Premier League, a decision which provided the opportunity to consider how we wanted to present ourselves as an organisation and competition,” said Richard Masters, the Premier League’s managing director.

thegeek · Wed 17 Feb, 2016 21.43

I'm guessing this isn't a standard Esso brand of shop. It's one of the ugliest things I've seen in a while.

all new Phil · Wed 17 Feb, 2016 23.22

We've got 4 or 5 of those near us. They're all petrol stations that changed to Esso from other brands at around a similar time (and they seem to share some staff as well), so I'm guessing it's a franchise type chain thing.