Qantas spunks AU$100m on 'pterodactyl' Designers have reacted with somewhat less than enthusiasm to Qantas's revamped logo - rolled out this week with the usual fanfare of trumpets. Qantas's logos through the ages The new-look roo, the fifth incarnation of the original 1944 marsupial, is an adaptation of the 1984 design which saw Skippy's wings clipped but …
"The Qantas logo is one of the most recognised symbols of Australia in the world"
Hats with corks from the brim, Castlemain XXXX, the phrase "What a beauty!", and sticks on the end of string you whirl around to "make a telephone call" surely!
I only see 4 different logos in that picture. Someone's been had.
I rather like the new logo. It's elegant, it's got a nice flowing line, the font has a nice balance. It's contemporary, it's a little bit zany with the curls (serifaroos?).
The old one with the wings just looked kooky. What, it's a roo-angel? The bewinged spirit of a kangaroo hit by a road train? Or did one of the plates just slip badly in final repro?
The previous logo is nice enough, but the roo looks like he's just clubbed his head against the right hand margin.
Now, can they stop mucking with their logo, and do something about their shite baggage policies and high prices?
It'll do - people just like to whinge about change... change is good mmmmkay.
Having said that, looking like an extinct flying lizard is better than a family cartoon character giving oral pleasure - London Olympic Logo.
I agree with Dodge, airlines need to stop worrying about jamming more people on the plane and more about the customer again. On a recent First Choice package flight I discovered that the seats on the plane were so close together that getting the life jacket out from underneath was impossible. I feel so much safer.
I think it looks fairly nice. OK, it's got a bit of a freaky feel to it, but you can't make a swoopy kangaroo without getting some of that. If you insist on being an Aussie company using a kangaroo as its logo ("Look! We're *AUSTRALIAN*! See? The Kangaroo? AU-STRAL-IAN!") then this is as good a way to go as any.
As an Australian, I suppose I have more of an attachment to this.
I do like the logo design, but the font immediately caught my attention as being pretty wrong. As a designer myself, I would've never picked that typeface. It looks like a bad version of someones hand writing to me. But personal taste and what not.
I don't mind so much that they've modified it, but it does pose the risk of leaving itself open to confusion as to what it might be to those unaware of what the logo previously was, and recognition through icons is a big part of branding/image of a product.
Does anyone really pay any attention to "logos" any more, other than designers who wish they could get paid serious wonga for performing minor tweaks to existing "icons"? Anyway, why can't Qantas just put a F&%$ing great "Q" on the tail plane in Trebuchet? How many airlines in the universe begin with Q for F%$£'s sake!!?
Hey, Lester, you've implied the design cost is AU$100 million and the design company copped the lot. I seriously doubt that; I'll bet that's the cost of the design (probably less than AU$400 thousand), AND the cost of rebadging the entire fleet of aircraft (aircraft paint ain't exactly cheap), AND all the company's signage at all airports they service (gotta be a couple hundred of those), AND all the company stationary/websites/brochures....etc. and so forth.
I like the design, I think the font's OK (remember, it wasn't 'chosen', but designed especially), so I'm OK with the changes. Besides, I'd rather "fly the roo" than "fly the Q". :)
The new one looks like the roo's body has vanished, replaced by a giant tail - which they don't have anymore thanks to Airbus.
All my aboriginal mates reckon the best part of a roo is the tail. So they'll probably be wondering where in Aus you can get one of these - maybe Longreach?
When did they do the first change? Was that after their first and only fatal air accident back in the 50s?
I would imagine the logo changed direction so it faces in the direction of travel.
This apprently gives a more progressive forward looking dynamism to a logo and its perception!
....it must be true, a man in the pub* once told me how he had secured a post at acompnay by recommending they change the direction of the arrow in their logo based on this very principle!
Did any one complain when they added or removed the wings? - how much 4X or fosters do you need to have drunk to see flying Kangaroos?
(* - ok it was a health food shop, but then the cultural reference doesnt work!)
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