Currently I am working on a book about car logo design history. BMW M logo looked almost the same as the standard version but was surrounded by the Motorsport colors.

BMW chose the Bavarian national colours as a symbol, but arranged the letters exactly like Rapp. You can see just how subtle the evolution of the logo has been over the years with slight colour and form refinements, a shift from serif to sans-serif typefaces, and the addition of lighting and bevelling on the most recent version, released in 2000. © One can hardly neglect the fact that BMW badge has become one of the most recognizable logos in the world.

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http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f332/mobius8band/WorkingPoint.png. mojoguzzi says: October 22, 2010 at 5:05 am BMW has added the 2020 design to its article on the history of the logo. Nevertheless, I do really like the BMW logo for it’s simplicity.

I had never heard any suggestions of where the logo originally came from, but it looks like a lot of people have. Kai Jacobson, automobile historian with the BMW Group said, “As Rapp grew into BMW, BMW assumed all the business segments, and the company wanted the logo to be oriented on Rapp’s logo. The BMW logo flaunts on the hoods of all branded vehicles, indicating the high status of the owners. The font used in the current version appeared back in 1953, although at that time it was serifed. In 1925 the R 37 opened the door to racing, and only four years later Rudolf Schleicher’s model broke the absolute speed record, becoming the fastest motorcycle in the world.

The insignia of this emblem, which first belonged to the Counts von Bogans who lived near Regensburg until 1242, is not clear. According to the company’s journal, “BMW Werkzeitschrift” (1942), the BMW logo emerged when a BMW engineer was testing the company’s first 320 bhp engine. BMW Logo Meaning and History. I think it would be nice if BMW came out with an ad or something to end the feud of where the logo actually came from. The colors of the logo turned out much more important than colors of the steel and the sky: a white and a blue one are traditional Bavarian colors; there is a blue stripe down and the white – above on the flag of Bavaria. BMW takes the world's blackest paint out for a spin, Designers give iconic logos a radical makeover, Graphic designer's price list is (still) priceless, Cartoon Animation in Professional Medical Training, The best tablets with a stylus for drawing and note-taking in 2020, The best drawing tablet: Our pick of the best graphics tablets in 2020, The best power banks 2020: Anker, Maxoak and RAVPower devices at low prices, Curated stock elements for video creators, Improve your drawing skills with this 8 hour course.

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Pretty mad, I wonder if they’ll ever get rid of the 3 letters. Instead of a wide black stripe, light silver is now depicted. Now the emblems, which appear on all motorcycles and company’s cars, are identical with a traditional variant of the logo.

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As a structural engineer, I use a working point if I’m specifying steel shop drawings or even steel connections. This led the BMW marketers to come up with a solution of ‘incorrectly configuring the color elements in the BMW logo from a heraldic perspective’, while also keeping its relationship with Bavaria evident. When I was in school, one of my professors told me the logo was actually based on a bomb viewed from the business end. That’s the most important point but there’s no explanation for that in the article.