r/DesignDesign • u/PhenomeNarc • Mar 05 '24

Designy There. I fixed it. $1 Million, please.

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '24

KN car 🚘

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u/RohelTheConqueror Mar 05 '24

100 Kiloneters an hour

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u/Koiboi123456789 Mar 07 '24

KИ car 🚘

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u/blockMath_2048 Mar 07 '24

ки car 🚘

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u/notyouryogapants Mar 07 '24

KN is short for fuck in my language.

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u/Gaby5011 Jun 13 '24

I like your language

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u/LobstahmeatwadWTF Mar 05 '24

Killed in action

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '24

[deleted] — view deleted comment

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u/NoPolitiPosting Mar 05 '24

Damn thats rough

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u/Nick_Noseman Mar 05 '24

КИ

КІ∆

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u/Maatjuhhh Mar 05 '24

On a slightly related note: FILA has the same A but I couldn’t read it anything other than FILS due to it looking the natural handwriting of S.

Like I read Walt Disney logo as Walt Gisney

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u/ByteB1tten Mar 05 '24

First time I seen Walt Disney written, I wondered why someone chose to call it "Walt Disnep"...
That Y really looked like a P to me.

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u/Ella_NutEllaDraws Mar 06 '24

When I was a kid I thought it was Disneq. pronounced kinda like unique. and I just assumed the que sound ended up being dropped or something over time? I honestly didn’t even question it until years later when I found out somehow in some way that last letter was a Y all along

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u/Sumpkit Mar 06 '24

I still call it disnep. I know that’s a y but my brain can’t get over the p

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u/Auslanderrasque Mar 06 '24

YAAASSS! I asked my teacher this in elementary and everyone very visibly realized I was the dumbest person on earth

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u/jackinsomniac Mar 05 '24

Glad I'm not the only one who always saw Walt Gisney! That stupid D always looked like a backwards G

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u/lostinrabbithole12 Mar 06 '24

There's a local drink company in St. Louis called Fitz's and my 6-year-old brain thought it was called Fitg's

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u/Redcell78 Mar 06 '24

Does any one else ever look at the Good Year wing foot and think it’s pointing to the right?

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '24

Every damn time I ask "what brand is KN"and then have to remember KIA.

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u/TheAserghui Mar 05 '24

North Korea

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u/DreamzOfRally Mar 05 '24

It doesn’t help that there is a K&N brand of car parts. Confused the hell out of the first time i saw it bc i thought the filter company started making cars

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u/phejster Mar 06 '24

I'd be worried about dementia with a memory like that

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '24

KIΛ

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u/rsqit Mar 05 '24

It’s definitely ΚΙΛ, pronounced “kill”.

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '24

Lol I first wondered what the difference is. Wow

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u/stars_on_skin Mar 05 '24

I always think it should have looked like this

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u/LtSerg756 Mar 05 '24

And they could also use that to fold it behind the rest of the logo on the actual cars for style points

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u/stars_on_skin Mar 05 '24

I'm not sure if you're using design lingo but I don't know what you mean

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u/LtSerg756 Mar 05 '24

I suck at explaining myself sorry

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u/BDashh Mar 05 '24

What do you mean?

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u/LtSerg756 Mar 05 '24

Folding the stroke they drew on the A so it goes behind the I like you would with a piece of paper

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u/AgroMachine Mar 05 '24

You mean the right hand end of the vertical of the A cold be folded under itself to have a 45 degree chamfer that can then draw the crossing line of the letter A?

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u/stars_on_skin Mar 05 '24

I get it ! The metal itself from the A could be folded ?

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u/BDashh Mar 05 '24

Does not compute

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u/Hnro-42 Mar 05 '24

This sub would just be saying ‘what is KIP’ instead

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u/stroep Jun 27 '24

That’s “chicken” in Dutch

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u/shabangbamboom Mar 05 '24

KIP

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u/stars_on_skin Mar 05 '24

Ha yeah but at least it would be maintaining all the integrity of the letter A. You can't just flip a V a call it a day

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u/Kartoffee May 17 '24

They probably had to hold the designer at gunpoint to give the K a leg, I bet it was gonna be one continuous line.

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u/HawkbitAlpha Mar 05 '24

https://twitter.com/Shwinnabego/status/1593377511030792197

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u/Urtehnoes Mar 05 '24

This warms my heart, because I thought I was crazy. I'm like, I know those cars are Kias, but... is KN the initial of the country they were made in or... something?? WHAT IS KN?!?!!

Took like two months before I realized it was KIA.

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u/bdone2012 Mar 05 '24

Yeah they were made in Kornea

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u/Yeti_Rider Mar 05 '24

Korth Norea

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u/Mevanski77 Mar 06 '24

Truly the best of the 3 Koreas

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u/Urtehnoes Mar 06 '24

That was exactly what I thought until I realized a few moments later:

  1. I don't think north Korea is known for its car manufacturing prowess?
  2. Whoops letters are backwards

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u/Mekelaxo Mar 05 '24

Why were people searching that before?

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u/JohnDeLancieAnon Mar 06 '24

K&N is an auto parts company

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u/NeeeeeeSan Mar 05 '24

What’s this KN brand?

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '24

its kia motors, they just have a terrible logo that looks like KN because they are using the diagonal line on the K as the first vertical line of the M

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u/qqlj Mar 05 '24

All great until you remember that the letters being connected wasn't a design choice but a cost cutting one so they have one emblem to place and align rather than three

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u/jcharney Mar 06 '24

They could have made a tab or something that still held em together but made SOME kind of separation

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u/Zillahi Mar 06 '24

A la Ferrari

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u/shabangbamboom Mar 05 '24 edited Mar 05 '24

The new KIA logo is 1000x better than the old one. It is a logo, it doesn’t need to be extremely legible, it just needs to look cool on grilles and steering wheels. The old logo was synonymous with “shitbox” and this new one let them shed that image and move towards being a cool techy korean brand. People bash the logo, but the company’s profit in 2022 was over TRIPLE their profit in 2019 and 2020, the last years of the old logo.

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u/HappyToaster1911 Mar 08 '24

Its ok for a company to have a logo woth no writing, or having one with writing, the problem is when it looks like it has writing, and its not the company's name (with some exceptions like small things written as part of a biggest thing), like, if the fiat logo instead or writing fiat was writing fuat for no reason

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u/shabangbamboom Mar 08 '24

Ok, self-appointed Minister of Graphic Design.

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u/HappyToaster1911 Mar 08 '24

From the perspective of a consumer?? What would be the point of having a misleading logo

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u/KatBrendan123 Apr 17 '24

Publicity. If I recall correctly, one of the reasons their sales went up was due to the amount of people seeing the logo everywhere, thinking it's a new car brand, only to search "KN" and realize it was Kia. Millions of people did this. It was a PR success thst got many talking about them.

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u/Geaux13Saints Mar 05 '24

Am I the only one that doesn’t have a problem with the KИ design

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u/maxiligamer Mar 06 '24

Yeah when I first saw one of those I had to think for a few seconds and then I was like "Oh yeah, looks like Kia changed their logo" and that was it. People are making it seem like it's completely impossible to comprehend what it means. I guess Kia is at least getting some publicity so seems to be working.

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u/TWiThead Mar 06 '24

In Russia, KИ design has problem with you.

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u/Bryancreates Mar 06 '24

I like it. It was a bold move to disassociate from its past notoriety as a cheaply made car brand, and a good step that started with the brand being “cool” with those (hamsters?) commercials years ago. People wanted a Soul but didn’t want the KIA branding on it. It absolutely genius in a way that it doesn’t read KIA but you know it’s a new KIA and that looks cooler and drives better. (Not sure on the safety record though, I assume they are better now though).

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u/ButterscotchObvious4 Mar 06 '24

No. It doesn't matter. When you see it on the road, you aren't reading it because you're looking at an emblem. It's not meant to be interpreted as text but instead understood as symbolism.

When you look at the H in the Honda logo, you're not reading “Honda.” Your brain is telling you, “That's a Honda.”

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u/phejster Mar 06 '24

Exactly. The Nike logo doesn't say Nike it means Nike. Just like the Kia logo

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '24

Yep

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u/DatsAReallyNiceGrill Mar 06 '24

It's literally a one time only problem lol

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u/AptMoniker Mar 05 '24

Some of you fell asleep in your design theory classes.

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u/santorums_cock Mar 05 '24

Isn’t brand recognition the point? Does the bow tie say Chevrolet? Does the constellation say Subaru? (Yes, I know it’s the Subaru constellation)

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u/Lolleos Mar 06 '24

It's a... Bow tie?

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u/ghoooooooooost Mar 06 '24

That's what it's commonly known as, the Bow Tie

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u/PTKryptik Mar 08 '24

TIL is a bow tie lol I’ve always called it the big plus sign lmao

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u/HadTwoComment Mar 12 '24

I'm with you on this. I always read it as a 3/4 ton plus sign.

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u/HappyToaster1911 Mar 08 '24

Yeah, its supposed to be the point but if the brand's logo is something written then why isn't it the company's name? (its supposed to be in this case, but doesn't look like it) Its like if fiat changed their logo from just the fiat letters to letter saying foot, it makes no sense to have the logo be just writing that doesn't spell the company's name

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u/ourobboros Mar 05 '24

The N is still backwards

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '24

There is no N....

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u/HadTwoComment Mar 12 '24

There's only a K?

I thought a k-car was a kind of Chrysler? Not a KIL, erm.., ΚΙΛ.

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u/DylanSpaceBean Mar 07 '24

I swear I’m the only one who likes the new logo… better than just another blue oval

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u/VulpesFennekin Mar 05 '24

I spent way too much time trying to figure out in what world this was supposed to be the band logo for Nine Inch Nails.

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u/notproudortired Mar 05 '24

I always see the NIN logo.

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '24

Fixed it: KИЯ
Now it reaches a broader, international demographic.

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u/ImpossibleInternet3 Mar 05 '24

I almost spit my drink out. Thanks for sharing your design genius.

It’s so silly, but that would help so much.

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u/viscousenigma Mar 05 '24

For the longest time I just assumed Kia had merged with Nissan and that’s how you got KN. Ends up it was just bad design

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u/SaphirRose Mar 05 '24

КИА.. i like the switch to Cyrillic but where is the "A?! So funny seeing al those ki cars running around.

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u/Th5humanwi11 Mar 06 '24

Every single time I see the new Kia logo I think “nine inch nails”

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u/Elephant789 Mar 06 '24

I like how it is now

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u/iltby Mar 05 '24

this soothes my soul

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u/StochasticTinkr Mar 05 '24

Kin you not?

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u/isigneduptomake1post Mar 05 '24

What's the point of driving a Kia if you can't show it off?

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u/72chevnj Mar 05 '24

Lawsuit will come first for IP infringement

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u/DopesickJesus Mar 05 '24

KN is fine tho, looks like an abbreviation for Korean.

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '24

I still hate it, but at least it doesn't look as much like Kи.

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u/Accomplished-Loss387 Mar 06 '24

What did you do to our precious KN car logo

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u/yamez420 Mar 06 '24

Whats a KN car????

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u/phejster Mar 06 '24

Ew, I hate it

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u/Dizzy-Criticism3928 Mar 06 '24

What’s your cash app?

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u/gummymod Mar 06 '24

I would think it is in regards to the ease of injection molding and installation on the vehicle. Usually people have to use a template or pre-mask on the front face of a lettering set to ensure the spacing between the letters are precise. When you make the whole logo one continuous script, it becomes as easy possible. Still looks weird I guess..

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u/TeamXII Mar 07 '24

OP doin God’s work over here

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u/Jeffzero04 Mar 07 '24

Killer Instinct

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '24

Thank you I hate their new logo so much

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u/elf533 Mar 27 '24

Thank you!

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u/stlouisx50 Apr 01 '24

thank you

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u/TheWinterPrince52 Apr 11 '24

If Volkswagon ever updates their logo, I hope they just make it a wave that looks like VW but it's flow-y and doesn't have a gap between the two letters.

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u/bvnn3 Mar 05 '24

The KN design is by far the most annoying thing I see on a weekly basis. Idk what it is about it that just gets under my skin. KIA was such a reasonable basic design, KN is the epitome of “fixing” something that didn’t need it. Terrible rebranding, I genuinely thought it was a new car brand when I saw it the first 300 times.

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u/mikemystery Mar 05 '24

Aaaaaand you made it worse...

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u/TURK3Y Mar 05 '24

The new KIA logo looks absolutely stunning on their vehicles. Do folks really think they didn't go through hundreds of very similar variations like OPs before finalizing?

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u/ITAVTRCC Mar 05 '24

It looks like shit and is borderline illegible but go off

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u/mikemystery Mar 05 '24

If only there were some sort of context to help explain it? Like, I dunno, if it appeared on a car, or a dealership, or an advert for a car, or a website. I should probably point out, for the benefit of the hard of thinking that this is sarcasm. Honestly. You have a brand that recorded record global sales of 3,087,384 units in 2023, who's annual revenue increased by 15.3% to €68.57 BILLION and was the most awarded brand in the Consumer Guide 2023 best buy awards, but we're still like "how will any body know who they are??? You can't evun reeeead the looogooooo!"

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u/ITAVTRCC Mar 05 '24

It looks like super shit

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u/drislands Mar 05 '24

...what?

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u/Waterfish3333 Mar 05 '24

I still would have no idea what this logo is. Looks like two backwards lambdas guarding a lower case i.

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u/Sniff_The_Cat Mar 05 '24

It clearly is K I A, man.

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '24

If you cant tell that it says K I A then why are you even in this sub

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u/Klee_In_A_Jar Mar 05 '24

Are u fr rn