You’ve probably pulled it off at least once. The ‘Blue Steel’ model look made famous by Ben Stiller in the cult 2001 film Zoolander. Blue Steel has become a standalone moniker, like twerking or Marmite. And Cîroc vodka has jumped on a limited edition idea that’s a match made in branding heaven: the Blue Steel […]
Emirates has come out on top again as the world’s most valuable airline brand, according to the 2016 Brand Finance Global 500 report, which was released February 1. The airline’s brand value grew 17% over last year to reach US$ 7.7 billion. For the fifth year running, the airline has steadily risen up in the […]
How do you stay still and move forward at the same time? This is the question brands wrestle with, once they reach a certain stature in the marketplace. All that energy spent building a fantastic brand – the last thing you want to do is dilute it or compromise it in any way. And yet, […]
Portuguese forward Cristiano Ronaldo is building out his fashion empire, with a new line of boots from Nike paying homage to his career, and the second launch from his CR7 footwear range. Nike will release seven Mercurial CR7 boots dedicated to Ronaldo, similar to the Mercurial Superfly CR7 range the player already wears. The boots […]
It may be facing criticism over its innovation pipeline but Apple has usurped Coca-Cola for the first time in 13 years to top a list of the world’s most valuable brands. The iPhone maker’s brand has been valued at $98.3bn (£60.83bn) by brand consultancy Interbrand, up 28 per cent year on year. Coca-Cola, which had […]
Search engine giant Google is rolling out a new identity, which ditches the previous 3D-style elements of the logo. The new, flat identity by Ars Technica, which also features a refined colour palette and updated letter shapes, is launching across most Google products over the next few weeks, according to Google tech lead manager Eddie […]
Yahoo has made the first update to its logo in more than 18 years to reflect the company as a reinvigorated “modern and fresh” brand. The new logo, unveiled on September 5, following a “30 days of change” month-long countdown of proposed designs. In a blog post, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer said the Yahoo brand […]
Yahoo, which is on the cusp of launching a new identity, is rolling out new website designs across its Sports, Movies and other platforms, with an aim to create a ‘consistent experience’. Yahoo is set to launch a new identity on 4 September, and ahead of that is displaying 30 different iterations of its logo […]
Yahoo is set to rebrand next month, and is showing 30 variations of the new identity before the final new logo launches. The new identity is set to launch on 4 September, and a different iteration of it will be used on the Yahoo homepage each day before the launch, in an initiative Yahoo calls […]
London’s Oxford Street is set to launch a new identity, developed by Goosebumps Brand Consultancy, which uses an ‘X’ to ‘mark the spot’. The new identity is based around the proposition ‘it all starts here’. It sees the Oxford Street name shortened to Ox St. Goosebumps was appointed to work on the new branding by […]