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
Mozilla Firefox
Starbucks
Walt Disney
Nokia
Canon
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.
Amazon
Realised that the new Amazon symbol buys you stuff A-Z looking at where the arrow is going
Nintendo
Ford
Volkswagen
Coca Cola
Snapchat
Playboy
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?
Kentucky Fried Chicken
Discovery Channel
So discovery channel started back when people still believed in a flat earth!
Burger King
Adidas
Shell
Ikea
Nestle
Mcdonald's
Pepsi
Is it me or the first pepsi logo is simmilar to the current coca-cola?
At&t
I don't know why it never occurred to me that AT&T was short for anything.
Fedex
Ge Healthcare
Heineken
Mazda
Visa
Adobe Systems
Probably just used Photoshop to make the first one because they thought indesign was too expensive for just one logo.
Pampers
Nissan
Lay's
Microsoft
Eskimo
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.
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.
And Italy. Algida, I mean. I remember the adverts on TV.
Load More Replies...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
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 ;)
just call it Unilever.. they have 26 names for this brand.
Load More Replies...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.
Here you can see how it is called around the world https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall%27s_(ice_cream)
this is "Langnese" in Germany < the original brand which is named different in other countries, Eskimo, Algida, Ola, Wall's (to name a few)...
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)
Interesting... in each language it says it was founded by a different person. Perhaps they were all different companies until Unilever bought them all.
Load More Replies...I think it's supposed to stand for Hazel Brook farm IIRC
Load More Replies...The current logo looks almost exactly like the Selecta logo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selecta_(dairy_products)
Kodak
Samsung
Audi
British Airways
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.
Dell
Procter And Gamble
Walmart
I thought it was Kurt Vonnegut's a*****e painting.... 99d5ec6e3b...526d61.jpg
Xerox
Would be interesting to see some of the logos in between the first and current. Like Apple, for instance, with their multi colored apple from the early 90's.
That's what I was told when I drew the Mastercard Logo years ago
Load More Replies...Do you think if some color was added to SOME of the old logos they would look better?
Load More Replies...Half of these logos are made up. The Coca-Cola advert definitely was always in the distinctive script. The website even tells their story!
Nissan and Lay's seem to have gone backwards in time. Their initial logos are so in tune with today!
Would be interesting to see some of the logos in between the first and current. Like Apple, for instance, with their multi colored apple from the early 90's.
That's what I was told when I drew the Mastercard Logo years ago
Load More Replies...Do you think if some color was added to SOME of the old logos they would look better?
Load More Replies...Half of these logos are made up. The Coca-Cola advert definitely was always in the distinctive script. The website even tells their story!
Nissan and Lay's seem to have gone backwards in time. Their initial logos are so in tune with today!