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Designers Share How They Would Redesign Famous Brand Logos And Some Solutions Are Really Creative (25 Pics)
Top companies spend big bucks on their logo. After all, it's the visual representation of their character. An easily digestible display of their core values. In other words, a company's logo is its face. And you bet your wallet they want to look appealing.
So it's only natural when up-and-coming designers try to prove their worth by recreating famous logos. "These guys get paid millions of dollars but I can do it better for a fraction of that cost." The ultimate power move.
Take a look at some of these recreations we found on sites like dribbble and Behance. Upvote your favorites and let us know what you think about them in the comments! Enjoy.
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Sleazy Weaver 4 years ago
The redesign is just a recolored version of Google Drive.
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Laura Tasciato 3 years ago
Cleaner, but neither clearly define what the company actually does.
Milena Radeva 4 years ago
The redesign has pretty much the exact shape as Adobe logo. Not a good idea. Who would want to copy their competitors?
Daniel (ShadowDrakken) 4 years ago
Affinity's current logo already looks closer to the one here labeled "redesign" than the one here labeled "current"... https://cdn.serif.com/affinity/img/global/logos/affinity-designer-icon-090520190839.svg
Václav Kudělka 4 years ago
I guess they wouldn't be happy to have similar look with their biggest enemy, Adobe adobe_logo...ff-png.jpg 
Daniel Marsh 4 years ago
This is the closest to an improvement, if for no reason other than the original looks like a logo for Azkaban. Ariel-like font isn't always an improvement
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Steve Barnett 4 years ago (edited)
I thought that the three black lines were imitating a sound wave, therefore the current one is more appropriate. Also, IMO, the ''S' in the redesign just doesn't look right.
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rabbitsrabbit 4 years ago
I like that the redesign is cleaner - if they could just make the G a little more obvious
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Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago
I don’t like the redesigns that take away all the detail in the originals. They just look lazy and untalented.
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just let me sleep 4 years ago
Most of those just changed the font from something original to something completely generic. Meh.
Monday 4 years ago
Sucked out any little smidgen of soul that might have been in it :/
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Aahzmandus Pervect 4 years ago
All of the"redesigns" are terrible. Every single one of them, not one offers any improvement whatsoever.
Hoppinger 4 years ago
I did professional graphic design for years and I can tell you that is takes a lot to design a logo. You have to design a small visual that in the few seconds someone looks at it, portrays your company's brand, style, personality, industry, etc. It also has to work across al media types including a computer screen and on paper as well as being reproduced in color and black and white. It's actually really hard. Especially when top executives think they know better just because they want to say that part of it was their idea.
Luca Giordano 4 years ago
terrible job! waste of your time. sorry, mate. don't quite your day job.
JennyLaRue 4 years ago
Anyone can redesign a logo, what matters though is understanding what the client actually wants, what their wider design principles are, how their brand influences their style and what elements they want to include or change in a redesign. It's never just what the designer can redesign where big brands are involved
Hecate DeMort 4 years ago
The only one I like is the Google Maps one but I think it is obvious it's Google Maps with the current logo anyway.
Sarcastic Kat 4 years ago
The only good one was the Google maps one. If I was the client and someone came to me with these as redesigns, I’d ask them how they got past security.
Daniel Marsh 4 years ago
These are nearly universally terrible. Almost all lose the meaning of the logo in pursuit of forgettability. F-.
Anna Banana 4 years ago
This post was never going to land well because we all prefer what we already know (see: outcry each time Facebook changes design). Having said that, some of them really do seem like a big step back.
wist_the_goblin (they/he) 3 years ago
a few were actually cool (like gopro and maps) but most were generic and boring
Suzanne Haigh 4 years ago
Bet some of these are taken for new designs, let hope they are paid for
Lana Jig-maker 4 years ago
Hey i'm curious, but what makes a design work? what makes one good, or bad?
Red Ruffensor 4 years ago
What a pointless exercise. These are all solutions in search of a problem, every last one of them.
Not A Panda 4 years ago
Well, there's a reason they paid professionals vast sums of money to create the originals....
xXCloudy_PuffXx 4 years ago
I feel like there was at most two I preffered the redesign of (like the google maps one). Most of these just overslimplify it to the point where my eyes just start to blur them together because of how similar they are.
Nikki Sevven 4 years ago
As a graphic designer, I really dislike the trend of oversimplifying logos to the point that they no longer have character. Also, why are we reverting from 3D to 2D?
Ray Martin 4 years ago
These are all utterly pointless. It could be argued that so am I, but it's all my own original work.
B 4 years ago
Having worked in the design industry for over 30 years, I know that top dollar clients will pay ridiculous sums of money for the tiniest unnecessary alteration to a logo. And often it's just because someone on their board thought, 'well, it's time for a change'. And also, clients are ALWAYS better designers than, you know, the designers. *rolls eyes*
Ayaan Pareek 4 years ago
Every single one looks really generic or bad except for the YouTube one that one is good.
just let me sleep 4 years ago
Most of those just changed the font from something original to something completely generic. Meh.
Monday 4 years ago
Sucked out any little smidgen of soul that might have been in it :/
Load More Replies... Aahzmandus Pervect 4 years ago
All of the"redesigns" are terrible. Every single one of them, not one offers any improvement whatsoever.
Hoppinger 4 years ago
I did professional graphic design for years and I can tell you that is takes a lot to design a logo. You have to design a small visual that in the few seconds someone looks at it, portrays your company's brand, style, personality, industry, etc. It also has to work across al media types including a computer screen and on paper as well as being reproduced in color and black and white. It's actually really hard. Especially when top executives think they know better just because they want to say that part of it was their idea.
Luca Giordano 4 years ago
terrible job! waste of your time. sorry, mate. don't quite your day job.
JennyLaRue 4 years ago
Anyone can redesign a logo, what matters though is understanding what the client actually wants, what their wider design principles are, how their brand influences their style and what elements they want to include or change in a redesign. It's never just what the designer can redesign where big brands are involved
Hecate DeMort 4 years ago
The only one I like is the Google Maps one but I think it is obvious it's Google Maps with the current logo anyway.
Sarcastic Kat 4 years ago
The only good one was the Google maps one. If I was the client and someone came to me with these as redesigns, I’d ask them how they got past security.
Daniel Marsh 4 years ago
These are nearly universally terrible. Almost all lose the meaning of the logo in pursuit of forgettability. F-.
Anna Banana 4 years ago
This post was never going to land well because we all prefer what we already know (see: outcry each time Facebook changes design). Having said that, some of them really do seem like a big step back.
wist_the_goblin (they/he) 3 years ago
a few were actually cool (like gopro and maps) but most were generic and boring
Suzanne Haigh 4 years ago
Bet some of these are taken for new designs, let hope they are paid for
Lana Jig-maker 4 years ago
Hey i'm curious, but what makes a design work? what makes one good, or bad?
Red Ruffensor 4 years ago
What a pointless exercise. These are all solutions in search of a problem, every last one of them.
Not A Panda 4 years ago
Well, there's a reason they paid professionals vast sums of money to create the originals....
xXCloudy_PuffXx 4 years ago
I feel like there was at most two I preffered the redesign of (like the google maps one). Most of these just overslimplify it to the point where my eyes just start to blur them together because of how similar they are.
Nikki Sevven 4 years ago
As a graphic designer, I really dislike the trend of oversimplifying logos to the point that they no longer have character. Also, why are we reverting from 3D to 2D?
Ray Martin 4 years ago
These are all utterly pointless. It could be argued that so am I, but it's all my own original work.
B 4 years ago
Having worked in the design industry for over 30 years, I know that top dollar clients will pay ridiculous sums of money for the tiniest unnecessary alteration to a logo. And often it's just because someone on their board thought, 'well, it's time for a change'. And also, clients are ALWAYS better designers than, you know, the designers. *rolls eyes*
Ayaan Pareek 4 years ago
Every single one looks really generic or bad except for the YouTube one that one is good.
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