Due to over-work, I became mentally and physically restless so I thought of taking rest for a week or two. During those days, I was having a cup of coffee with a cigarette sitting on my lawn. Suddenly, my eyes revealed the simplicity of the logo of Marlboro on the cigarette packed. At that moment, I thought, “Who designed this logo?” so I turned on my system started looking for it. In that procedure I came through the “Millward Brown’s top 100 most powerful brands” in which I found the top 10 brands. So, I started looking for the history of logos of the top 10 brands and below came are the result of my thoughts…
The current official logo represents the name “Google” in logo type based on the Catull typeface and was created by Ruth Kedar. Every once in a while, the company uses various features of the logo which compliment and refer to birthdays of famous personalities and holidays. These modifications have become known as Google Doodles and were first created by the fondaters of the company in 1999. The doodles are currently designed by Dennis Hwang who has created over 150 doodles since the year 2000.
GE (General Electrics)
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intended and avoid tarnishing or misrepresenting the intended image. The logo is a size and resolution sufficient to maintain the quality intended by the company or organization, without being unnecessarily high resolution. The image is used to identify the organization General Electric, a subject of public interest. The significance of the logo is to help the reader identify the organization, assure the readers that they have reached the right article containing critical commentary about the organization, and illustrate the organization’s intended branding message in a way that words alone could not convey.
Microsoft
The Microsoft logo is the ultimate example of “style meets simplicity”. The logo perfectly indicates the company’s mission of offering high quality products to its customers. The 2nd version of the Microsoft logo was fea fanciful lettered O in it. In 1987, Scott Baker adopted the current Microsoft logo. As it was designed in Helvetica italic typeface, the new logo had a slash between the o and s and featured the slogan ” Where do you want to go today?” As in 2006 the logo changed its tagline below the main corporate name into “Your potential, our passion.” In spite of all the transformations the Microsoft logo and its main message has remained largely unaffected.
Coca Cola
Who doesn’t know “coca cola”? its one of the worlds most recognized logos, the Coca-Cola brand started from the back 1886, where initially it was very famous in Atlanta Georgia because the city was the subject of local alcohol prohibition at the time. The signature used in the logo was sketched by their Publicity Director at the time, Franc Robinson.
China Mobile
China mobile ltd. is china’s domain mobile service provider; it is the world largest telecom by subscribers count. The company was registered in1997 under the name china telecom (Hong Kong) but changed its name in 2000 to china mobile (Hong Kong). China mobile has its head office in hung Kong and is a subsidiary company of china mobile communication.
IBM
The International Business Machines (1956) trademark of Paul Rand’s was developed from an infrequently used typeface called City Medium, designed by Georg Tromp in 1930. In the 1970s, Rand updated the logo by stripping it to unify the three forms and evoke scan lines on video terminals. During the late 1950s, Wilot Noyes IBM’s consulting design director sought “to express the extremely advanced and up-to-date nature of its products. To this end we are not looking for a theme but for a consistency of design quality which will in effect become a kind of a theme, but a very flexible one”.
Apple
As the Company name is “apple”, they selected an apple as its main form of branding. The first logo of the company was a small apple shape sitting under a tree with Apple Computer Co set into the frame of the picture. The first logo was hard and complex to view, so Regis McKenna after some years later added a “bite mark” to symbolize the concept of seduction of the customers. Afterwards it was replaced with the rainbow-colored logo as in the Biblical story of Adam and Eve the apple represents the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge. The logo was considered lucky for the company as it did encourage business and customers to consider the apple brand for the first time and was successful in generating increased profits.
McDonald’s
McDonalds is the largest and best-known chain of fast-food restaurants in the world. They have more than 23,000 restaurants in over 100 countries; The Golden Arches logo was created by Jim Schindler in 1962 to look like new arch shaped signs on the sides of the restaurants. They called the logo Golden arches firstly, to input the idea that owning one McDonalds franchise is like having a gold mine. Secondly, the arches symbolize a place to hide under, to escape. McDonalds logo have been seen more broadly as a symbol of capitalism or globalization, since they are the most famous American corporation to go global on a grand scale.
Nokia
The first Nokia Company logo. What is the story about the fish? Salmon in the river near the Nokia factory? Nokia, Finnish Rubber Works Ltd. In addition to footwear and tyres, Nokia Rubber Works also manufactured rubber bands, industrial parts and raincoats.
The Nokia “arrows” logo before the Connecting People logo.
The Nokia “Connecting People” slogan was invented by Ove Strand berg.
Marlboro
Marlboro is a brand of cigarette made by Philip Morris USA and by Philip Morris international. IT is famous for its billboard advertisements and magazine of the Marlboro man. The brand is named after great Marlborough Street, the location of its original London factory.
I have referred many sites but still I can’t find who designed the logo of Marlboro. If someone knows who designed or where I could find these then please share it with us all.
References:1. MILLWARD BROWN OPTIMOR’s Reoprt on Top 100 Brands, www.millwardbrown.com
2. LogoOrange Design Group, www.logoorange.com
3. Wikipedia, www.wikipedia.org
Logo Design Service
August 6, 2008 — 8:41 am
I think IBM’s first logo is better than the current!
Kenneth Severe
August 7, 2008 — 8:18 pm
My father worked for the firm Royal Dadmun & Associates, in Baltimore, Maryland, as a graphic artist. That firm did most of the package design and other work for Phillip Morris. My father designed the original Marlboro logo with the “m” in lower case. He felt it had more “visual balance.” At the insistance of Phillip Morris, the lower case “m” was changed to an upper case “m” as we have always known it to be. This took place in the early 1950’s. He also did work on Salem, Newport and Camel brands. My father loved the fact that he could always get free cigarettes from Phillip Morris. He passed away in 1986 from lung cancer. I lovingly refer to my dad as the original “Marlboro Man.”
tony
August 11, 2008 — 11:18 am
kriszha… you have spread it well for the persons who are searching for the top brand logos… thanks keep it up
rjm324
August 11, 2008 — 11:40 am
… Kenneth…… m so sorry about your dad….and i will also say that your daddy was an original marlboroman……we would like to know much more about him…..
'web designer' Kathaperumal
August 16, 2008 — 7:04 am
Hi , You have helped to find ‘Marlboro Man’ and by this you are giving recognition to designers like him. What a great service!. I simply thank you for this. (i am not connected with ‘Marlboro Man’ But he is a logo designer. and i am a web designer and developer)
AlexM
August 17, 2008 — 1:11 pm
Your blog is interesting!
Keep up the good work!
sanjaygurung
August 21, 2008 — 3:15 am
Hi Kris,
How are u man?
I think u will find this interesting:
20 Famous Logo Designs
🙂
Mike
November 12, 2008 — 7:43 pm
Hello? Nike? FedEx?