Technically, a wordmark is not the same thing as a logo. With a wordmark, you’re treating your brand name itself as a piece of marketing art. With a logo, you’re aiming to create a symbol that will one day (if you have a huge marketing budget) stand in place of your name. …
Logo Design Is a Waste of Space
Logo + Wordmark – What’s the Difference? At Distility, we design wordmarks, not logos. A logo is a graphic symbol which represents a brand. A wordmark is a text-only typographic representation which is built from the letters in the brand name. Three Reasons Why Wordmarks Are Part of Pragmatic Brand Marketing We …
What You Missed on Twitter This Week
@1day1brand top tweets for the week ending May 6, 2011. The speed of information dissemination has accelerated. Keeping up can be a breathless activity. To help keep up on how branding can help your business, Distility @1day1brand offers a recap of this week’s top @1day1brand tweets. Branding Green Thinking Big …
Branding Best Practices Learned From the GAP Logo Debacle
I took some heat for my last post on how the new GAP logo was better. In that post, I explained how the old square shape makes it smaller than competitors, and how the old serif font is out of tune with their otherwise ubiquitous use of Helvetica. Soon after …
Branding Agency CEO Axle Davids on Why the New GAP Logo is Better
The interwebs are abuzz with the new GAP wordmark. People are shocked, enraged, agog. Productivity is down. People want answers. Emails are flooding my inbox. The Distility social graph wants to know where we stand. Neither wordmark is particularly inspired. But then how inspired is that of Dolce & Gabbana or …