Baskin Robbins Logo - Design and History
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Baskin-Robbins is a global chain of ice cream parlors founded by Burt Baskin and Irv Robbins in 1953, from the merging of their respective ice cream parlors, in Glendale, California. It claims to be the world's largest ice cream franchise, with more than 5,800 locations, 2,800 of which are located in the United States. The Baskin-Robbins ice cream parlors started as separate ventures from Burt Baskin and Irv Robbins, owning Burt's Ice Cream Shop and Snowbird Ice Cream respectively. Snowbird Ice Cream featured 21 Starting 2006, the company went through a campaign to change its brand including redesign of its stores, its website and even its logo. The current logo is clever in that it incorporates the 31 (in pink) that represents the 31 flavors, cleverly embedding it in the B R of the logo. The font was also changed from the a regular straight font to a more zig-zag font. The pink represents the pink spoon which is given when customers ask for samples (see below for more history) |
The idea for having 31 flavors came from the Carson-Roberts advertising
agency (which later became Ogilvy & Mather) in 1953, along with the
slogan "Count the Flavors. Where flavor counts." 31 was also more than
the 28 flavors then famously offered at Howard Johnson's restaurants.
Burt and Irv also believed that people should be able to sample flavors
until they found one they wanted to buy - hence the iconic small pink
spoon. During a now famous promotion, Amy Boggioni led a group of three
who finished 31 scoops of all 31 flavors in under 31 minutes.
Baskin-Robbins
sells ice cream in over 30 countries, including Canada, Japan, Mexico,
Bahrain, the United Kingdom, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Saudi
Arabia, Australia, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia,
Malaysia, Bangladesh, South Korea, India, Pakistan, Panama and Taiwan.
Firedog Logo - Design and History
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firedog is the brand name through which Circuit City stores offer in-home, in-store & online services for computer repair, installation and support, and home theater product installation. The firedog logo is a green, black, and white logo of a dog jumping through a hoop. The logo was designed to evoke the idea of Circuit City "doing whatever it takes to get the job right". The name "Firedog" was chosen because it evokes the kind of qualities Circuit City intends their technicians and installers to provide: helpful, friendly, knowledgeable and reliable. The dog is "Man's Best Friend" and Circuit City hopes that its consumers will think that the firedog's technician are the consumers' "Best Friend". Also, in the Chinese Callender 2006, the year Firedog was created, is the year of the Dog. |