You might remember the Quark Logo Trouble a couple of months ago. It looks like they have decided to re-brand themselves once again. This time their logo looks similar to the Sony Ericcsson one. What is going on with Quark? It seems like they are having real difficulties with their image right now. They might as well go back to their original logo. What are your thoughts?
that its friggin ugly.
The first thing that ran in my head was that I thought it looked like Ubisoft’s logo (different color though).
I think it’s more representative of the sad state of logo design more than anything else.
Remove that green globe thing and leave the Q and I would think that would be an improvement.
Very ugly!
“I think it’s more representative of the sad state of logo design more than anything else.”
Totally. At least now it’s not such a blatant ripoff of existing work, though.
This identity struggle seems indicitave of the problems they are having as a company, so maybe it’s more appropriate than it seems at first.
Lots of last minute, micro-managed updates that don’t really improve the overall.
Isn’t the new QExp. supposed to knock our socks off?
Yucky. They should have instead spent the money on improving Quark, not redesigning a logo.
I just puked on my keyboard 
Reminds me of the Sony Ericsson logo.
They should have instead spent the money on improving Quark, not redesigning a logo.
Hear, hear.
Now if you don’t mind, it’s Friday afternoon. I’m going to go see if I can find someone to bounce up and down on my dragthing.
Sorry — I commented before reading the whole original post. Disregard my last comment.
The new one is just plain ugly, it doesn’t express nothing to me.
I guess what’s hapening is: they’ve lost their identity, so they’re lost, that’s going to reflect their products which is sad. When are they gonna’ have a concept that they actualy want to portray or be? It’s scaring me.
Given the short-ish redesign time, I’d say that this ‘new’ logo was probably the second best (first loser!) in the original logo redesign exercise. It is certainly egg on Quark’s face that a company that makes a design tool can’t seem to nail an original design. As for the logo itself…subjectively I think the drop shadow debossing is too deep/dark, and darned if the ‘Quark’ word doesn’t seem centred under the circle. I wonder if they will PR spin the redesign as “another example of Quark listening to its customers” (ha!).
I am absolutely dumbfounded. How can this happen? At the very least promote a contest among your hundreds of thousands of users (designers) to design the new logo.
Unbelievable. Has anyone contacted Sony Ericsson?
I like the “Before” much better.
I can’t find anything on the Quark website about the new logo, but their Sept. 05 release says “There’s a friendly sign of change at Quark: a new logo and visual identity that signal that the company is leaping forward into the future of creative communications” and their director of corporate communications Glen Turpin said it was “fresh, inviting, and open.â€
Apparently not fresh enough.
What’s Quark? Indesign on OSX since 2001. I won’t go back.
Eww (L) and eww (R). WHY?! The left one is better, but that’s not really saying much.
the old one is much better!
it’s easy to understand
I don’t know what the deal is lately. Logos need a concept. What the hell is the concept here….or there for that matter.
Go back to drawing board and find a concept… the draw it. And communicate complex ideas with a simple amount of lines and space play. Come on people… quit letting the juniors have their shot. Will someone play ball here?
definetely the “before” one
Unbeleivable. What a nightmare! A case that could be shown to students in design… what not to do! A big company on the fall should have kept its old logo, after all! Confusion everywhere, Anti-branding. How to scare investors, too (are they a stock company?) So like someone else said, yes, it is representative of Quark! 
Why does everyone feel the need to “3d” their logos? Look at AT&T…and now Quark…I say stick to the simpler the better. You never see nike complaining…in fact I actually seen someone tattoo the nike symbol on their back…can you imagine if they did that with this?
I agree with Stephanie’s comment. This is certainly not a Lovemark and from someone as important as Quark I would expect something solid, classic, and simple. Not something mired in a mess of complexity, trend-loving, and just general bad taste…
This discussion would be much more exciting if anyone was still actually using QuarkXPress.
A new logo doesn’t bring your company or your software back to where it was 10 years ago.
Look what arrogance bought you, Quark. Nice job.
heh you are doind a good ad for quark though and i must say i havent seen any logo like this before.And as far it gose for me i really do not care what logo thye have!Never really heard of quark anyway…lol.
The new logo remindes me of the old Mr. Yuck campaign the Poison Control Agency did when I was young.
Well they are quite successful in reflecting their inherent failures in terms of addressing the quark users issues. I ditched Quark long back but I heard the software is a lot better in its new version. Too bad the branding is screwed up.
The first one is like the Scotish art Council, and the other one it´s like Sonny Ericsson.
Just becose they want to have a Q simbol. Bee kareful with Quantel logo .jeeje
could be a “Carlsberg” logo
Hmmm It looks like this logo: http://www.qumana.com/
old one is by far much better. new one makes me think too much of videogames or a dinosaur for some reason…old one was also much more classy and elegant. and less messy for the eye.
very old fashioned and user-unfriendly product! So i think the (very) old logo is the best choice for this product of the last century
Reminds you of http://www.monster.com logo too.
Poor Quark
It’s just flowing with the trend.
I personally prefer the old logo, it’s timeless.
Remember that song…”Somebody is watching you..” look like eye ball
Before one is really MUCH MUCH better…
complicated
The old one has a more modern style than the new one. Somehow Quark ended up on the wrong side of the cyclical trend ride.
I like the new logo but if I am honest I do like the old logo better. I am not sure why they needed to change the logo as the old one looked so good.
A new logo is often required when an old one looks dated but in this case I do not think the time had yet come but the new logo is still ok.
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