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Have you ever looked at logos and wondered what their meanings were or what inspired the designer? Here are16 famous logos with hidden meanings. You see them almost every day and now we will tell you what they represent. 1. Toyota & Its Famous Logo While driving a Prius that's going 10 miles per hour under the speed limit on a single-lane highway, did you ever think what the heck is the Toyota logo supposed to be? What is it, a saintly almond wearing a halo? Toyota is the world's largest auto manufacturer and has one of the most recognizable logos, but it's famous logo has a hidden meaning behind the loops are a mystery to most people. Toyota unveiled its current logo in 1990, and it's probably safe to say that they're not going to retire it for quite awhile. According to Toyota, the three ellipses symbolize "the unification of the hearts of our customers and the heart of Toyota products" and the background is for the brand's "technological advancement and the boundless opportunities ahead." So definitely not a holy nut. BUT, it also has another hidden message... the logo actually includes every letter used in the company’s name. 2. Baskin-Robbins Logo Meaning When Baskin-Robbins recruited the advertising juggernaut Ogilvy & Mather in 1953, the ad firm wanted to highlight that the company had an astonishing number of ice cream flavors. Considering that whenever you go to Baskin-Robbins they're always out of the flavors that you want, it might be hard to believe that they have more than 31 flavors today, but after six decades, the "31" is still hidden in their logo. If you look at the "B" and the "R" on the company's revamped 2006 logo, the curve of the "B" is a 3 and the first line in the "R" is a 1 to represent the 31 flavors nickname that has been with the company for over six decades. 3. BMW In 1917, BMW was a brand without a logo. So it didn't have any logos with hidden meanings Bayerische Motoren Werke's owner, Franz Josef Popp, needed to change that after the brand split from a company called Rapp Motor. Most folks, even auto aficionados, think BMW's logo represents an aircraft propeller or an airscrew, but Kai Jacobsen, BMW's historian, debunked that myth. The logo is basically an homage to Rapp's old logo but, instead of a black horse in the middle, BMW used blue-and-white, the national colors of Bavaria. https://youtu.be/znBnNJ1Fv08 It wasn't until 1927 that the logo appeared on an actual BMW product, and everyone clearly loved it. Aside from a few slight changes, the heart of the logo has been almost the exact same for 100 years. 4. Hyundai Car manufacturer’s logo stands for the first letter of their name, right? Not only so, it also represents a successful deal between a car dealer and a customer. 5. Beats Letter B in the red circle shows a person wearing Beats headphones. I love listening to my Peter Frampton with these on! 6. Amazon At the dawn of the new millennium, Amazon unveiled the logo that they continue to use today. It may look like a smile, as in, "I'm happy I don't have to leave my house ever again to buy whatever I need!," but the curved line under the Amazon logo is actually an arrow that starts at the "a" and points to "z," meaning they sell everything from A-to-Z. And here you can see that the logo is actually smiling! 7. Fedex “FedEx” hid a small arrow between letters E and x, which represents the forward momentum and efficiency. 8. Pinterest The letter P in the logo is stylized to remind us of an actual pin. 9. Formula 1 People usually see the letter F separated from the number 1. But actually, the number is white, followed by the red flag. 10. Tour De France Few actually notice a biker, smoothly incorporated into the title. 11. Northwest Airlines Northwest Airlines flew the skies from 1926 until 2010 when their merger with Delta was finalized. Although as a company they've gone the way of TWA, Pan Am, and a certain airline owned by a certain president, Northwest Airlines is still known for their logo that they used from 1989 until 2003. The classic Northwest Airlines logo has a single N and a triangle that's also a W created by the wonderful use of negative space. The triangle represents a compass and is pointing to, you guessed it, northwest. 12. Levi’s Jeans Yep, that's your bottom right there! 13. Alfa Romeo Italian car manufacturer’s logo is jam-packed with stuff, the key feature being a serpent eating a man. 14. Unilever Unilever is one of those consumer goods companies that practically run the world. They have over 1,000 brands that they own. But what's all of those little logos inside of the big U? According to Unilever, there are 25 mini logos inside of their logo, and "each icon has a rich meaning … and represents some aspect of our effort to make sustainable living commonplace." Unilever’s logo is actually made up of icons representing different aspects of sustainable living. The penmanship here is outstanding. 15. Toblerone “Toblerone” chocolates come from Switzerland and they really make it show not only by having Bern ( the city where Toblerone is made) in the name but also a bear’s silhouette placed inside the mountain logo. 16. Quiksilver It’s actually a stylized version of famous woodblock print The Great Wave off Kanagawa. Hope you enjoyed Famous Logos With Hidden Meanings! Do you have any logos we missed? (Credits: Grunge and CanYouActually and Demilked) What logos do you know the meaning behind? Feel free to share this story on Facebook with your friends and family.

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