The Bank That Rebranded Without Changing Its Logo

A regional lender kept its mark and rebuilt everything around it, from forms to signage.

By Alex Suskind

White wing-shaped mark on a red rounded square

Nordvik Sparebank kept the logo it has used since 1979 and changed almost everything else.

The new identity is a typeface, a grid for forms and a rule that every letter fits on one page.

In practice

Customer complaints about paperwork fell by a third in the first year.

The logo was never the problem. The forms were.

Kari Nordvik, head of brand
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