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Graphic symbols and elements we see in famous logos today are a result of numerous techniques studied in the last couple of centuries. Considering the evolution of our society and its demands the old Instagram logo, introduced in 2010, might just not cut it today. The original Apple logo with its realistic style drawing looks way too complicated and forgettable for us, while the old Starbucks logo shows some indecency in it. We, as a society, are more used to simplistic style these days. Also, since we've gotten better at understanding symbols, famous logos changed taking in mind our demands.

Take a look at this list compiled by Bored Panda for example. In it, you'll find some of the world's most famous logos, both how they look now and how they looked in the beginning. While you probably recognize all of the contemporary ones, many of their original counterparts aren't so easy to identify.

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Apple

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Robert O
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well so much for all the story's stating the Apple logo had noting to do with Newton

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Canon

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Yugan Talovich
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So Canon started out as Kwanon, Guan Yin, what Westerners call the Buddhist goddess of mercy. Only Guan Yin is asexual, and not a god.

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Amazon

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Caramel000
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Realised that the new Amazon symbol buys you stuff A-Z looking at where the arrow is going

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Playboy

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Amanda Panda
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I remember back in the day when girls would tan, everyone had those little bunny stickers they would put on before they laid out, and would flaunt their little tan tattoo lol Anyone else remember that?

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Mtv

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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When? It wasn't like that long. Early 80s already had a version of the current logo.

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Discovery Channel

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Anirudh Sharma
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So discovery channel started back when people still believed in a flat earth!

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Mcdonald's

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Pepsi

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At&t

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Ani Asnever
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't know why it never occurred to me that AT&T was short for anything.

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Ge Healthcare

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Adobe Systems

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Jelmer Jellema
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Probably just used Photoshop to make the first one because they thought indesign was too expensive for just one logo.

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Nissan

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Eskimo

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Iulia Bianca
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This brand is called Olá, here in Portugal, and it means Hello. lol! So many different and weird variations of its name around the world.

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Steno Kaluba
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This company was founded in Hamburg as a german-chinese icecream company. Its original Name is Langnese, wich in northern german language means "long nose". As a company acting worldwide they sell their icecream under more than 20 different names. Eskimo is sold in Norway, Austria, Slovenia and Croatia. Algida is sold in South and South-East Europe.

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David Wouters
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

yes it's all of them, and it all started in the Netherlands with a little icemaker from Hellendoorn which was quickly bought by Dutch-British conglomerate Unilever and then after many years, all these individual brands from many countries and logo's were bought one after another by Unilever and unified under the heart brand we all know today

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Jiří Šída
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ok let me clear that, main name of this brand is Algida. And in every country, Algida buy the best ice cream producers. Then they take their name and put it under algida logo. Thats, why "Algida" have so much different names in different countries. for example in Czech Rep. They didnt bought the best producer and their name in CZE is Algida ;)

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Nicola Morley
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Walls in UK. Why so many names for the one company? It's like Oil of Ulay before it became Olay to be more internatnally recognised.

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Luna Clara
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Here you can see how it is called around the world https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall%27s_(ice_cream)

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Klaus Thiel-Klenner
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

this is "Langnese" in Germany < the original brand which is named different in other countries, Eskimo, Algida, Ola, Wall's (to name a few)...

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Michaël Desnoyelles
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Miko for France but all the names comes from orignal brands bought by Unilever over the time. They kept orignal brand names to stay closer to their clients in respective countries. Try to change the language on Wikipaedia and you will have name changing. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miko_(marque)

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Luca Rosaldi
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Interesting... in each language it says it was founded by a different person. Perhaps they were all different companies until Unilever bought them all.

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Johann Johann
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The current logo looks almost exactly like the Selecta logo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selecta_(dairy_products)

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British Airways

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Morten Petersen
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

British airways was called - British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) and had a completely different logo. check out british airways homepage they have some cool fotos from the early days.

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Procter And Gamble

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Xerox

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