In May of this year we reported on the drastic redesign of Seattle's Best Coffee. Our super scientific polls revealed that out of 4,542 votes, 46% were of the opinion that such a big change was a bad move and 25% thought it was a smart one. In terms of execution, out of 4,524 votes, 35% thought the execution was bad and 24% great. The pendulum certainly swings to the negative but not too heavily. A big part of their relaunch was the notion of making coffee consumption simpler and more accessible

Founded in 1972, PRISA (Promotora de Informaciones, S.A — Information Promoter, Inc.) is "the world's leading Spanish and Portuguese-language business group in the fields of education, information and entertainment." Based in Madrid, Spain, PRISA is present in 22 countries and handles important publishing enterprises like El País, Spain's leading general interest newspaper, and publishing houses Santillana and Alfaguara. Additionally, PRISA publishes major magazines like Rolling Sto

Founded in 1972 by William D. Novelli and Jack Porter in Washington DC, Porter Novelli was started to "apply marketing to social and health issues." Today, with 90 offices in 60 countries, Porter Novelli is one of the leading public relations firms in the world balancing its original scope of clients as well as working with consumer brands. They are responsible for projects like the Truth anti-smoking campaign and the original and new food pyramids. Earlier this month, Porter Novelli introduced

Launched in 1997, CNN en Espa˜ol is the Spanish language counterpart to CNN airing across Latin America and is the leading news outlet in most of those countries. Last week, CNN en Espa˜ announced a major overhaul of their programming, a fancy new studio at Turner headquarters in Atlanta, a new tagline — Vive la Noticia (Live the News) — and a new logo.

Established in 1890 with the launch of its first beer brand, Carta Blanca, Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma brewery is one of Mexico's main breweries along with its competitor Grupo Modelo, makers of the famous Corona beer. Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma's greatest hits include Tecate, Sol, Carta Blanca, and, probably the most well known in the U.S., Dos Equis (thank you most interesting man in the world). They also produce some of my favorite Mexican beers, Bohemia, Noche Buena, and Indio — as we

As one of the original ten teams in the inaugural season of the U.S.'s Major League Soccer in 1996, the Kansas City Wizards is one of the most established teams in the league, winning the MLS Cup in 2000. Originally named Kansas City Wiz (no ards and featuring a super retro logo at the time) the team changed its name in 1997 and last week it announced that it wasn't messing with iterations of the word wizard anymore and instead it was changing to Sporting Kansas City. This coincides with the mov

With a recently reported increase in customers to 200,000 million customers — for comparison, AT&T and Verizon have around 90 million each — Airtel is the largest mobile service provider in India, and the fifth largest in the world, with customers in nineteen countries across South Africa and Asia. Its corporation, Bharti Airtel, also provides land line services and broadband internet access. Last week, with the news that it would launch a complete 3G network, Airtel introduced a new

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Since its launch in early 2007 Google's Gmail service has become one of the most popular online e-mail programs offering whale-sized storage allowing users to keep e-mails in the realm of gigabytes, whereas its competition early on allowed for mere megabytes. I tried to find the number of Gmail users but found conflicting information: It's either 170 million users or 36 million. Either way, that's a lot of. Earlier this week, Gmail made some changes to its log-in page as well as some tweaks to i

If the sale of the Brand New Conference videos offended you, this might make you feel like I just danced the Macarena on your great-grandparents' grave — if so, vent in the comments, you know you want to. If not, read on. We have about 150 goodie bags left from the conference and we thought someone out there might be interested in getting them for a small sum of money. The goodie bag itself is a 16 × 12 × 6-inch tote that I just used to carry a good deal of groceries and worked

EADS or the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company, was born from the merger of the German DaimlerChrysler Aerospace AG, French Aérospatiale-Matra and Spanish Construcciones Aeronáuticas SA (CASA), creating a company spanning the industries of, well, as the name rather plainly suggests, Aeronautics (aeroplanes), Defence (things that go boom) and Space (satellites, rockets, space craft). It's the Aeronautics division, branded as Airbus, that we would all be most familiar with

Brand New readers it is time to put your money where your mouth is: Think you know what makes a logo suck? You certainly have no shortage of comments when you see it. It's time to put theory to practice. In How Low Can Your Logo? design studio Fuzzco is "testing your capacity to willingly create that which you spend your entire life trying not to create: the worst logo ever." The client is fake, Excellencico, who offers "integrated turn-key solutions to the ever-changing, world-class, internatio

Established in 1984 by Michael Dell in our hometown of Austin, TX, Dell is one of the largest technology companies in the world with 96,000 employees and it is currently number 38 of the Fortune 500. Well known for its hardware, shipping 110,000 "systems" (laptops, desktops, and netbooks) every day around the world, Dell also provides a number of IT solutions for businesses and other organizations. Around summertime of this year, Dell began implementing an evolution of its very well recognized l

We received a lot of requests to review the logo currently adorning the header of the website of apparel, accessory and hipness retailer Urban Outfitters (UO) and as much as I hesitated to post it I think it's worth getting it out of our system. I hesitated because this is not an identity change or, at the very least it is not being positioned as such by UO. I believe they change their website every three or four months, complete from the ground up, with new typographic treatments for their name

WTA, the Women's Tennis Association, is the principal organizer of women's professional tennis, the WNBA of the tennis world. It consists of 2,225 athletes, representing 91 nations, competing for more than $86 million in prize money. The new identity is meant to symbolize the modernization of the organization, and will be showcased throughout its 53 annual events and four Grand Slams in a wide variety of media. WTA recently unveiled its new identity, created by Chermayeff & Geismar