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  • DC Entertainment New Brand Identity Unveiled

    January 20, 2012 // Gradly // blog, Comics, Design, News, Superheroes Tags: blog, Brand Identity, CID, Comics, DC Comics, DC Entertainment, Design, Logo, MAD, Superheroes, Vertigo No Responses


    DC Entertainment Logo Versions

    DC Entertainment Logo Versions

    DC Entertainment has unveiled its new brand identity. The new set of logos were launched to showcase the portfolio of brands, stories and characters across all media platforms and merchandise. See the old and the new logos to compare. What do you think of the new ones?

    DC Entertainment New Logo

    DC Entertainment New Logo

    DC Entertainment Old Logo

    DC Entertainment Old Logo

    Here is the official press release

    DC Entertainment, a Warner Bros. Entertainment company and home to iconic brands DC Comics, Vertigo and MAD, revealed today a new brand identity. The new identity is reflective of the company’s mission to fully realize the value of a rich portfolio of brands, stories and characters, distinguished by incredible breadth and depth across publishing, media and merchandise. A new logo for DC Comics was also introduced, closely aligning with DC Entertainment’s new mark.

    “It’s a new era at DC Entertainment and the new look reflects a dynamic, bold approach while at the same time celebrates the company’s rich heritage and robust portfolio of characters,” stated John Rood, EVP of Sales, Marketing and Business Development for DC Entertainment. “It was just a few months ago that Superman, Batman and many of our other Super Heroes were updated when we launched DC Comics – The New 52 and now it’s time to do the same for the company’s identity while remaining true to the power of storytelling which is still at the heart of DC Entertainment.”

    DC Entertainment worked with Landor Associates, one of the world’s leading brand consulting and design firms, to develop an identity that creates a visual connection among the company, its three brands DC Comics, Vertigo and MAD and its vast array of properties as well as celebrates the power of the company’s stories and characters. The design of the new DC Entertainment identity uses a “peel” effect – the D is strategically placed over the C with the upper right-hand portion of the D peeling back to unveil the hidden C – symbolizing the duality of the iconic characters that are present within DC Entertainment’s portfolio.

    “It was our goal to capture DC Entertainment in a dynamic and provocative identity. Our solution is a living expression which changes and adapts to the characters, story lines and the ways fans are consuming content,” explains Nicolas Aparicio, Executive Creative Director at Landor’s San Francisco office. “The new identity is built for the digital age, and can easily be animated and customized to take full advantage of the interactivity offered across all media platforms.”

    The new brand identity will come to life across all consumer touch points in order to create a clear and consistent message in support of DC Entertainment. The new identity will begin to appear on comic books and graphic novels as well as new websites in March. Consumers will also see the new identity rolled out over time on other DC Entertainment products from Warner Bros. including film, television, interactive games and merchandise.

    “We believe our new brand identity will strongly resonate with our loyal fans who will want to proudly express their affinity for DC Entertainment and their passion for their favorite stories and characters, this new look allows them to easily do this. In addition we were excited to update our identity, it’s not often a company gets to revisit something as important as its brand and we took the opportunity to make sure it represented the multi-media business we set out to build with the formation of DC Entertainment,” said Amit Desai, SVP of Franchise Management for DC Entertainment.

    DC Entertainment New Logo

    DC Entertainment New Logo

    DC Entertainment New Logo

    DC Entertainment New Logo

  • Monsters Inc. Prequel: Monsters University Official Synopsis and Logo Revealed

    May 13, 2011 // Gradly // 3D, blog, Logo, Movies, News, Pixar Tags: 3D, blog, Disney, Logo, Monsters University, Movie, Pixar Monsters Inc., Prequel, Synopsis No Responses


    Disney/Pixar has just released a preliminary synopsis and full color logo for Monsters University, the prequel to Monsters Inc. The release date had been pushed back from November 2012 to June 21st, 2013

    Official Synopsis:

    “Mike Wazowski and James P. Sullivan are an inseparable pair, but that wasn’t always the case. From the moment these two mismatched monsters met they couldn’t stand each other. Monsters University unlocks the door to how Mike and Sulley overcame their differences and became the best of friends.”

    The film is said to take place in college, where Wazowski and Sullivan first meet at the University of Fear, where they start off as enemies and slowly become friends. The film is being directed by Dan Scanlon, with Kori Rae producing. Billy Crystal and John Goodman are set to reprise their roles from the first film. The movie will be released in 3D.

  • New Patent Will Make Future Apple Logos Magically Glow

    February 1, 2011 // Gradly // Apple, blog Tags: Apple, blog, Logo, Patent 1 Response


    Hidden inside a sheathe of patents awarded to Apple today is a particularly interesting one that suggests that your future Mac just might be a slab of aluminum that glows.

    If you look at the back of your MacBook, it’s pretty easy to piece together Apple’s current process in making the Apple logo glow. They carve a cut-out of the Apple logo in the MacBook lid, close it up with a sheet of opaque white plastic and when your display is on, the light leaking out causes the logo to emit light.

    What Apple wants to do is make the logos and LED displays of future Macs glow without carving a hole in the aluminum. They basically want light-emitting logos and indicators to be invisible unless they are emitting light.

    How do they intend to make an unhewn chunk of aluminum glow? The new process describes a way to thin out aluminum in spots so that it’s wafer thin, at which point Apple will drill thousands of microscopic holes in specific designs in order to create the illuminated shape.

    This tech could cover everything from the ubiquitous glowing Apple logo to your MacBook’s power button indicator or MagSafe connector. Revolutionary? Not at all, but it’s exactly the sort of refinement Apple loves: a small tweak that makes the entire product feel less like a box full of circuits than a slab of magic.

    [via: cultofmac]

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