FNB has seen surprisingly few major logo overhauls - but most have courted at least some controversy among at least some South Africans. | BISouthAfrica
First National Bank has unveiled its first new logo in three decades - to some social media mockery.Its most controversial logo, which appeared long before social media existed, had some speculating it was hiding pro-ANC symbols in the iconic acacia tree's branches.For more stories,South Africa's First National Bank has released its most significant logo change in 35 years, and it is being mocked.
Goldstuck says the bank chose"a very simple, symbolic logo" that"featured a thorn tree, silhouetted against a rising sun". The intention at the time, he says, was to symbolise an African landscape and a new dawn, and it ran alongside a slogan reading"Symbol of life, strength, hope". Images of the supposed hidden images were spread via fax, in an early example of electronic means enabling a meme to move through connected parts of SA society.
Despite this, the bank slightly adjusted its logo shortly after the initial controversy to reduce the clarity of the apparent symbols and further distance themselves from the Apartheid government's concerns.
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