Archive - Logo Histories

Bank Logo Design: How Banking Found a Modern Identity

How designers transformed the visual language of banking, from institutional authority to abstract symbols of trust, progress and global ambition.

8 hrs ago • Richard Baird

Yasuo Kuroki’s 1973 Sony logo and the 1981 crowd-source competition to replace it.

Oct 8 • Richard Baird

Alan Fletcher's 1965 logo for Reuters.

Oct 7 • Richard Baird

Legible enough to be read and unusual enough to be remembered – The story behind Paul Rand’s 1964 logo for Atlas Crankshaft Corporation.

Oct 6 • Richard Baird

1960s Logo Design

How abstraction transformed corporate identity.

Oct 5 • Richard Baird

Access extensive historical logo design research. Discover concepts and contexts. Improve your understanding and craft.

Oct 1 • Richard Baird

The world on the line – Carl Regehr’s 1965 logo proposal for International Telephone and Telegraph

Oct 1 • Richard Baird

September 2026

Learn about abstraction in logo design

Sep 30 • Richard Baird

Tarmac Group, 1964

The concept behind Ronald Armstrong’s 1964 logo for Tarmac Group

Sep 28 • Richard Baird

Johnson + Nephew, 1971

Wired for Success – John Harrison’s 1971 logo and corporate alphabet for wire manufacturer Richard Johnson and Nephew.

Sep 24 • Richard Baird

Concentric Logos

Learn about using common centre and axis in logo design.

Sep 23 • Richard Baird

Banking on good fortune

Young Jae Cho’s 1980 logo for Citizens National Bank

Sep 21 • Richard Baird

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