SanDisk is now SANDISK. It’s additionally now Sandisk. The corporate is asserting a recent rebranding this week with a brand new brand that drops the inter-capped styling it’s typically maintained since 1995 with one that’s impressed by “a single level of knowledge” or a “pixel.”
In a brand new video, Sandisk says its “slab serif is again and bolder” and it maintains its open “D” letter, however pairs it with a brand new “pixel-driven S.” The corporate says the letters symbolize “the collaboration and partnership required to actualize our objective and faucet into new potentialities.”
As famous in a report by Quick Firm, the Sandisk rebranding comes forward of a by-product from its father or mother firm Western Digital deliberate for subsequent 12 months (it was initially deliberate for this 12 months). Western Digital had initially acquired Sandisk again in 2016.
Final 12 months, Western Digital was embroiled in controversy surrounding the favored, expensive moveable SanDisk Excessive SSD, wherein publications reported that the product would wipe house owners’ information erroneously. It occurred to our supervising producer Vjeran Pavic, and Western Digital refused to reply our questions on the time to elucidate what was occurring.
Controversy apart, we’re huge followers of “unfinished” brand types right here at The Verge, and it seems like Sandisk did alright with its rebrand. It actually might do worse — simply take a look at PayPal, Kia, Paramount. or JaGUar.