
Visual Identity and Marketing
For instance, everyone is familiar with the popular white logo on a red background from Coca-Cola.

For instance, everyone is familiar with the popular white logo on a red background from Coca-Cola.

Starbucks just simplified its logo, removing the wordmark and centering the siren. The visual change is modest. The strategic statement is large. Why the redesign matters and what brand consultants are going to be referencing for years.

Gap's 2010 logo reversal is the most-cited brand identity crisis in communications. A six-day reversal, a crowdsourcing pivot that read as panic, and 99designs' sharpest reactive PR play of the decade. What the episode still teaches in the AI era.

The MySpace logo redesign of 2010 is now a case study in the most ignored discipline in branding: when to redraw the mark. Twitter → X, Facebook → Meta, Dunkin', Google, Mastercard — what the decade of rebrand pivots actually teaches.