17 Famous Company Logos Then and Now
These logos went through some drastic changes.
The logo is the face of a company.
Kinda like your profile picture on Facebook that you always update and change to the best photo that you got. Companies spend a lot of time and money on planning and putting up the best logo for their company. Some didn't change a lot, but these sure did.
So Facebook is originally named [thefacebook]. Yes, enclosed in brackets.
Shell
Shell was too literal back then.
McDonald's
I guess McDonald's started as a barbecue place.
Mozilla Firefox
So... it wasn't a firefox before?
Canon
Kwanon. Right.
Apple
Apple went totally minimalist.
Procter & Gamble
This is really interesting. P&G actually went a lot of changes in terms of logo design. This is the very first one, followed by the half moon and star design which gathered a lot of controversy.
Nestle
The first logo is based on the owner's family coat of arms. It evolved to the known birds nesting logo.
Burger King
Oh, that's why it's called Burger King.
Playboy
The first "Playboy" is indeed v. naughty.
Coca-Cola
That's plain and simple, coke.
Pepsi
The first Pepsi logo looks a bit like the new coke logo.
Now this one made it to the news. Some loved it, some did not.
Adidas
That first logo is really descriptive.
So, Twitter was initially slime.
Nokia
Nokia had a fish on its logo. Interesting.
Starbucks
The Starbucks lady is more conservative now than before.