In corporate America, the most persistent refuge of outright charlatanism is “branding.” The only thing more offensive to honesty than a “rebranding” campaign is a breathless feature story about a rebranding campaign.

It’s hard enough running an alt weekly in 2015 without evoking fascist iconography.

Or an upside-down American flag teardrop. Either way, God bless the U.S.A. and her patriotic defenders!

The logo for PRISM—the huge NSA data-mining operation revealed by The Guardian and The Washington Post on Thursday—features a photo by Adam Hart-Davis, a writer, photographer and television presenter in the UK.

Want to buy a PRISM t-shirt? You can't: Someone is claiming copyright over the logo of the vast NSA surveillance operation, and they took down my Zazzle store.

News Corp will soon formally split itself into two companies: an entertainment and television company, which actually makes money; and a newspaper and publishing company, which is worth a nickel— but which has a fabulous new logo!

Twitter revealed today a makeover of the company's ubiquitous blue bird logo, which saw their mascot (formerly named Larry after the Bird) transformed from a bird that looked like how it used to look into a bird that still looks like how it used to look.

The Herman Cain campaign spent all night designing its pretty new "Women for Cain" page, complete with a banner logo featuring four cheery ladies giving the thumbs-up, and how does the liberal media show its gratitude? By making fun of the banner logo all day, since those four cheery ladies were not actually "Women for Cain" so much as they were stock photo models. And now the Cain campaign has pulled the stock photo from the logo, which now simply reads "Women [lots of blank space] Cain." EVERYONE HAPPY NOW?

Professional designers have finally had it with the Huffington Post always asking for free shit all the time. You're a publicly traded company now, HuffPo. You can design your own damned logo for politics coverage.

That's a theme explored by graphic designer Viktor Hertz in his series of Honest Logos. Notably absent, however, is the Gawker logo. What should that one say? [Flickr via ANIMAL]

Not twelve hours after its announcement and serious, damaging questions are already being raised about the campaign of former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney. Specifically: Did Romney steal Aquafresh's nurdle?

Starbucks has a new logo—now with 100% mermaid-thingy! Or, as they put it, they've "evolved the siren." This vagueness just makes them appear more sinister. Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz's own creepy, sinister explanation of this murky symbolism is here.

After general internet outrage over its aggressively unimaginative rebranding, clothing chain the Gap will revert back to its similarly boring "blue box" logo. People who call themselves "design nerds" can now go back to complaining about Comic Sans.

MySpace—remember that?—just unveiled a new logo. A clean, sans-serif bat signal to all the cool kids who left for Facebook: Come back! We're hip; we're with it. We listen to your independent rock and roll music.

People really are very upset about the new logo of famous clothing store GAP! Whereas the former white-on-blue logo was iconic, the new black-letters-next-to-a-little-blue-box design has Gap fans and branding experts alike befuddled and discombobulated.

JetBlue has appropriated the iconic "I ♥ NY" logo in its new ad campaign, so the Times invited readers to create similar mash-ups. The entries so far have been pretty lame, though. And we know you can do better.

Democrats are feeling optimistic! Since Republicans have nominated a joke Senate candidate in Delaware, Democrats now will win one midterm election, instead of zero. And to capitalize on this momentum, the Democratic party released a new logo and slogan today!

The FBI is hopping mad at Wikipedia! Apparently they've threatened Wikipedia with legal action if the online encyclopedia doesn't remove a picture of its official seal from the FBI entry at once. Wikipedia's lawyers, while squelching laughter, have replied "no."

How did the NBC Peacock get such bright feathers? This animated short by Nathan Love shows that the process wasn't the most pleasant experience. Conan knows how he feels.

[Feeling outraged by the BP's unbelievable shamelessness? How about some wryly humorous graphic design? This is one of the best new BP logos from Greenpeace's "Rebrand BP" competition. Flickr via Reddit]