Battle of the Brands

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Across
  1. 2. This social media platform's color scheme is set to blue because the founder suffers from red-green color blindness.
  2. 6. One “What’s in your wallet?”
  3. 7. This company's logo is meant to look like a mountain to showcase a difficult challenge or ‘climb’ that has to be overcome.
  4. 14. This iconic actor from this companies early ads, died of lung cancer.
  5. 15. Not a potato chip but the best potato chip.
  6. 18. This company got its name from a digestive enzyme and was chosen because the inventor, believed this beverage helped with digestion.
  7. 19. When this studio began, it made deals with many famous actors. In 1916, its logo was launched with 22 stars that represented the number of celebrities who were under contract with the company.
  8. 22. When the logo for this company was created, the wife of the President thought it looked quite aggressive. The lowercase letter ‘n’ was added to make the all caps design friendlier.
  9. 23. "People's car" in German.
  10. 24. This brand is named after the Greek goddesses of victory.
  11. 26. This county is the actual birthplace of bourbon but didn't have it's own distillery because it was a dry county until 2014.
  12. 28. This company name means "put together" in Latin.
  13. 29. This logo design has two prominent ‘T’s which represent two people with a chip. They are holding it over the dip or bowl of salsa which is the dot on the letter ‘I’.
  14. 30. King “Have it your way.”
  15. 31. 65% of brands have the colors blue and _____ in their logos
Down
  1. 1. We all have purchased something from this company but rarely do we pay attention to its logo; that curved arrow in the logo is there because they sell everything from A-to-Z.
  2. 2. This shipping company was on the verge of shutdown in 1970, when owner Fred Smith impulsively went to Las Vegas and won $27,000 playing Blackjack (and saved the company with the money).
  3. 3. The logo for this company is a real model named Jennifer Joseph who is a graphic designer. Her shoot for one of the most famous entertainment brand identity designs was the first and last time she modeled.
  4. 4. It is apparently well-known that the bat shape in this logo was inspired by Batman, but it also showcases the design of the back pocket on their jeans.
  5. 5. The Guinness Book of World Records named this the greatest invention of the 20th century.
  6. 8. “You’re in good hands.”(with Pedro Serano)
  7. 9. "The Happiest Place on Earth"
  8. 10. During Prohibition, bourbon was legally allowed if you had a _____ _____ (two words). In fact, this actually helped keep many Kentucky distilleries afloat during Prohibition.
  9. 11. This company was initially called BackRub but in 1997, they renamed it because it was a play on the mathematical expression for the number 1 followed by 100 zeros.
  10. 12. This company used live lions in their logo until 2021 when the switched to CGI.
  11. 13. If you tilt your head slightly when looking at this logo, you'll see that there is a triangular space between the first two letters forming into a the shape of this Hershey's candy in the logo wordmark.
  12. 16. “Betcha can’t eat just one.”
  13. 17. “A diamond is forever.”
  14. 20. The girl in this company's log has the word "mom" written in her collar.
  15. 21. The bat in this company's logo is actually found in Mexico.
  16. 25. Old Grand_Dad bourbon features the likeness of the grand-father of the bourbon's producer. Do you know his name? (Hint: It's the name of another very well-known bourbon).
  17. 27. Her original name was Barbara Millicent Roberts.
  18. 30. This company, famous for its ice-creams, originally planned to be a bagels company.