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Brand Identity Essentials
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Brand Identity Essentials

by Kevin Budelmann, Yang Kim, Curt Wozniak
October 2010
Beginner
208 pages
4h 56m
English
Rockport Publishers
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ORIGINALITY73 Timelessness

During the first decades of the twentieth century, graphic identity was a novel idea. As the appetite for logos has increased, the marketplace has grown more crowded. Today, with more marks than ever vying for attention, freshness can be one way to slice through the noise. But freshness is different than originality.

When high-profile companies rebrand themselves with a new logo and a new attitude, sometimes the decisions are wise. Often, they are not. Facelifts don’t create an original face; they just make the same old one look a little fresher.

When AT&T hired Saul Bass to design the mark that would become their famous Bell System logo in 1969, the company remained committed to the mark until its break-up in 1983. ...

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ISBN: 9781592535781