Bandai Namco plans to retire its current logo and launch the new one with its new company initiative in April 2022. using the color pink to “stress diversity”
I seen this a few days ago and personally hate it. That orange logo is classic, it's history. Well, except that it isn't since Namco merged with Bandai in 2005 lol.... Whoever green lit this change needs to be fired though. This is an affront to branding. It's absolutely terrible. 2 cents. and I don't care about the colors, though, I do think they should've stuck with orange or something else. End of the day it's just a terrible logo compared to the current one.
Actually...it's not plain. It has a specific character and personality. The rounded corners also match the textbox that encloses the text.
Plaint text would be:
Bandai Namco
It is a very ugly logo though devoid of any gaming or even inclusive aspects. One would argue that the closed textbox doesn't represent inclusivity at all. It lives in a speech bubble
Whining? Nobody is whining. Public criticism is part of the whole design process. Gotta say that is one aspect of graphic design that snowflakes couldn't handle. You are supposed to invite and allow all sorts of criticism into your design...graphic design is geared outwards not inwards like fine art.
All these years the good old red NAMCO still can't be beat. This logo just don't do anything like all the minimalist logos nowadays I can only sense "move along nothing to see here" vibe coming out of these kinds of logos.
I knew the pink had something to do with "diversity" before I ever even read the sub-headline. LOL! this is what its come to, companies now changing their established logos to pander to certain groups, surprised the border around their name isn't rainbow colored. smdh
As a Graphic Designer myself, I've hate this trend to oversimplify things and then charge millions for it, I wish I could get a hold of that business practice, it's easy, simple, and people make millions on it. But of well, let's see the complementary graphic that accompanies the logo and see if it was worth.
Somebody was paid to come up with that design......
Why pink? Like you’d think they’d go with orange, yellow or red similar to the old logos
What a boring design. I like their current design. Why change it
We need to stop calling plain text a logo.
Japan is caving to California at warp speed.