February 25, 2009
PepsiCo Caves on the Tropicana Rebrand
With the straight up commotion and online “buzz” this rebrand has garnered, I can’t believe it wasn’t done by Wolff Olins.
From the START I bet my buds over at Heroes Vs Villains that the Tropicana rebrand wasn’t going to last very long. It was almost as bad as the Sierra Mist redesign, but on a widely accepted product. Pepsico wanted clean and fresh, but htey ended up with something that was confusing to the color blind, and generic.
Here’s the commotion I’ve been hearing:
- Rebrand is generic
- Packaging is hard to differentiate between products
- Logo is too “2.0″
- Packaging doesn’t match the corporate style
- Packaging is boring
Almost every design blog on the net has discussed this packaging in the last month and yesterday the NY Times posted a story that Tropicana was going to move back to a slightly updated version of the old packaging (AND THE OLD LOGO, which is HUGE.)
I understand the whole “let’s make our product new again,” but the direction was just a bit off. I would love to see the design comps from the entire process to see how they got from A to B.
Maybe they will launch a viral campaign A LA The Pepsi Manifesto from last month.
Just wait for the Tropicana rebrand… rebrand.