To celebrate their 40th anniversary, Starbucks unveiled today what they are calling their new logo. It’s really a just wordless version of their old logo, with a larger siren now in green. Apparently cropping is now considered logo design. As much as I’m a fan of their coffee, I’m not very impressed with this new [...]

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I have a love/hate relationship with Caribou Coffee. Followers of my Foursquare activity will find this surprising since I check into their locations frequently. While not my favorite corporate cup of joe, I often fall prey to the convenience of tripping over their stores throughout my day (most of their 500 locations are in Minnesota). [...]

I’ve been working with Bryan Person on a logo for the Social Media Breakfast series.  It will be customized with each chapter’s city name as well as used for the national web site. As you may know, I’ve been active in the Minneapolis/St. Paul SMB chapter for the last year or so and its been [...]

I’m still not quite buying this, but the word is out that Sci Fi Channel is planning to change their name to SyFy channel by the end of the month. There is already a backlash brewing with a handful of Facebook  protest groups popping up and lots of chatter on Twitter. Aside from the obvious [...]

Inspired by Mashable’s round-up of Halloween-flavored logos, I’ve collected some interesting examples of website logos inspired by the US election last week. Here are some of my favorites: Yahoo – Added a vote button and turned theirs into a poll. Cafemom – had a nice button standing in for their O. Boston.com – also choose [...]

Starbucks cups and their jackets have been sporting a new design for the roll-out of Pike Place Roast. Hearkening back to their roots (the first store was in Seattle’s Pike Place Market), they feature a version of the original Starbucks logo. The main figure, often mistaken for a mermaid in the modern logo, is actually [...]