New Pringles branding

[LAWeaver 957]

Pringles has unveiled a new logo and packaging on Twitter:

 

The new branding seems to coincide with the release of Pringles Scorchin':

 

 

[dont care 6,613]

I like it. Not too different but gets rid of the unnecessary details

[QCS 2,631]

Definitely a solid update. It's still clearly the Pringles man and as seen by the "Scorchin" tubes the versatility of the new icon is a plus.

[burgundy 2,116]

I think it's too simplified. Without the brown mustache it kinda looks like he has a giant beak for a mouth. He looks like a snapping turtle.

[SSmith48 689]

When I first saw that I thought it was some sort of mistake. It's alright, probably could use an outline around the white oval.

[VC// 31]

After seeing the new logo, I can't even remember what the original looked like. 

[LAWeaver 957]

10 hours ago, VC// said:

After seeing the new logo, I can't even remember what the original looked like. 

Here's the previous design/packaging:

 

I definitely think they should've kept the outline. Also, he's bald now, so there's that.

[DG_ThenNowForever 16,135]

I could be overthinking this, but the new Pringles logo turns what was clearly a white guy into something more racially ambiguous; like the Hamburger Helper.

[BBTV 20,227]

How is that racially ambiguous?  Not too many non-caucasians sporting flowing light-brown hair and full mustaches like that.

 

EDIT: I was looking at the old packaging when I saw the hair.  Even still, I don't see it as ambiguous.

[EddieJ1984 1,672]

Downgrade, way too simple/flat now.

He looks like a bald egg.

[EddieJ1984 1,672]

On 12/2/2020 at 9:52 PM, SSmith48 said:

When I first saw that I thought it was some sort of mistake. It's alright, probably could use an outline around the white oval.

 

The pizza chips he gets an outline.

[DG_ThenNowForever 16,135]

1 hour ago, BBTV said:

How is that racially ambiguous?  Not too many non-caucasians sporting flowing light-brown hair and full mustaches like that.

 

EDIT: I was looking at the old packaging when I saw the hair.  Even still, I don't see it as ambiguous.

 

I look at the new Pringles man and I see this:

 

 

Whereas the old Pringles man was clearly an old-timey Mumford & Son, the new guy is just a circle with a mustache. A circle and a mustache could be any race, and doesn't necessarily need to be a person at all.

[BBTV 20,227]

10 hours ago, DG_ThenNowForever said:

A circle and a mustache could be any race, and doesn't necessarily need to be a person at all.

 

That mustache can't be any race.  How many Black men do you know that relax their facial hair to make it flow like that?

[DEAD! 2,065]

13 hours ago, DG_ThenNowForever said:

 

 

Whereas the old Pringles man was clearly an old-timey Mumford & Son, the new guy is just a circle with a mustache. A circle and a mustache could be any race, and doesn't necessarily need to be a person at all.

 

Maybe if they added a sombrero.... 

[DG_ThenNowForever 16,135]

4 hours ago, BBTV said:

 

That mustache can't be any race.  How many Black men do you know that relax their facial hair to make it flow like that?

 

Perhaps. But I think you can allow that by making the mustache black and not brown, it's now more applicable to more people than it was before.

 

I think that was the point.

[BBTV 20,227]

Just have a different chip man for each race, and then use stereotypes to associate the appropriate chip with the most common flavor that race purchases.  They could have an Asian chip man, Black chip man, Indian chip man, etc.  Not sure what the down side of this approach could be.

[habsfan1 3,973]

20 hours ago, DG_ThenNowForever said:

 

I look at the new Pringles man and I see this:

 

 

[DTConcepts 2,133]

On 12/2/2020 at 3:30 PM, burgundy said:

I think it's too simplified. Without the brown mustache it kinda looks like he has a giant beak for a mouth. He looks like a snapping turtle.

 

Well, $#!T, can't unsee that now.

 

This redesign was unnecessary. Does it look smooth and clean? Yes. Does it look sterile, corporate, and like a half-assed attempt at minimalist modernization? Also yes.

[DG_ThenNowForever 16,135]

I guess Pringles are in the zeitgeist.

 

Mildly NSFW if you're in a shared location:

 

 

[Popmart 194]

The big advantage of this redesign, and I’m sure one of the driving factors, is that it opens up the package design options enormously.

 

The previous packaging was constrained by the brown of the Pringle man’s hair. All of their packaging colours had to compliment that brown in some way.

 

Their new packaging can be any colour of the rainbow.