With a £12.5bn buyout on the books, BT is set to take over mobile operator EE from partners Orange and T-Mobile (Deutsche Telecom). The state of its brand – already a compilation of two providers distilled down from Everything Ever...
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#TransformTuesday: 3 March
Every week, Transform examines recent rebrands and updated visual identities. This week’s picks are below. For more from #TransformTuesday, follow @Transformsays. 1. The Belfast based not-for-profit, The Belfast Children’s Festival...
London cycle scheme rebrands red
Ownership of London’s ‘Boris bikes’ is passing into new hands, Spanish bank Santander. The bikes will lose their trademark blue in favour of the bank’s signature red. The scheme itself is very popular with Londoners, but has until...
Creative culture: Dubai Lynx inspires a region
Photo courtesy of PPAMPicture/iStock by Getty Images The annual Dubai Lynx Festival of Creativity celebrates creative communications. Speakers and sponsors of the event all...
Tech companies are China’s most valuable brands
Tencent, an internet service company, has been ranked China’s most valuable brand of 2015. The newly listed online retailer, Alibaba, has rocketed straight to number two in The 100 Most Valuable Chinese Brands 2015 rankings, ahead...
New brand appeals to animal lovers
Pet care brands are able to appeal to the public’s emotions since their names are inevitably wrapped up in fond memories of pets Animal imagery is a guaranteed way to hook people’s interest and the pet care sector has a better righ...
Two’s company: Jim Prior on running brand agencies
It’s been nearly a year since Jim Prior added the stewardship of Lambie Nairn to his existing role as CEO of the Partners. He and Andrew Thomas discuss the challenges of running not just one but two global brand agenc...
#TransformTuesday: 24 February
Every week, Transform examines recent rebrands and updated visual identities. This week’s picks are below. For more from #TransformTuesday, follow @Transformsays. 1. A leading mobile messaging service based in the UK needed to revi...
Awards recognise strong design strategy
Design strategy is an important component of overall brand strategy. The winner’s at last week’s DBA Design Effectiveness Awards ceremony (12 February ’15) submitted campaigns that showed how impactful design can be on business suc...
Opinion: Stefan Liute asks “Why shouldn’t everyone do everything in branding?”
By Stefan Liute If everybody had a say in everything around them, what would the world look like? Would we still have running water? Or broadband internet? Or straight, level roads for driving a hundred miles per hour? The same goe...
