Captain Crunch: Retro Crunch

One of my earlier posts was of the Throwback Mountain Dew bottle. The same thing was done for Pepsi. The older logo was used for a limited  time. Quaker has done the same thing for Captain Crunch cereal. For a limited time they're using a box design similar to the one from the 60's. So my post this week is a picture I took of a box of Peanut Butter Crunch (Best cereal ever!). It features various typefaces, a photograph of the cereal, and well as cartoon pictures of the captain and an elephant. It also has the catch phrase "Stays crunchy...Even in milk" on the front. I guess I like the retro look because it's different. Something I'm not use to seeing. It's an eye catcher to those familiar and unfamiliar with the old look. I guess retro is trying to make a comeback.

Super Mario 25th Anniversary

This year marks the 25 Anniversary of the Super Mario franchise. Mario is by far the most recognized video games character ever. Nintendo is of course celebrating this by selling various themed items. But they've also made a special logo which is what my blog is about. The logo has the 8bit version of Mario top center, 25th Anniversary in the Center, and Super Mario Bros. bottom center. And it's closed of with the leaves on the sides. It's a very simple design but the message is clear. I think even without it saying Super Mario Bros. you could still tell what the images was about. But Nintendo clearly thought this through and made it so that people who aren't familiar with the Mario Bros. franchise could understand what it's about. I like it cause it's nostalgic. It's a modern logo with a reference to the older games. And now I want to play some Super Mario Bros. Obviously it's working.

So this week I chose the cover for Drake's album "Thank Me Later." This reason I chose it is because it has a  lot of references to the Early Modern style. I makes use of photography by having a picture of drake on the cover. The font of the text is Sans-Serif. And it uses the colors red and black. All three of these elements were common in the Early Modern style. I feel that this images gives off a sense of power. Drake has such a serious look on his face. And I fell that this simplified image give off that effect even more. I also like how the different colors with the text is used to separate the Drake's name with the title of the album. I haven't listened to the entire album. And "You can't judge a book by it's cover." But I really do like it.

Cartoon Network logo

This week I chose to do another logo. But I also chose to do a comparison. Cartoon Network is a popular television network I have watched for years. When I was younger their network looked like this:

It was a simple checkered pattern design that clearly displayed the name. Now there logo looks like this:

It stills shows the name at the bottom. But there than the entire checkered patter, they emphasize the "C" and the "N." If you're familiar with Cartoon Network, you instantly recognize with it represents just by seeing the two letters. I actually like this modernized logo, but I still prefer the old one.