Associated Press logo and symbol, meaning, history, PNG
- Download PNG AP Logo PNG For most of its history, the logo of the US news agency Associated Press has been based on the letters “A” and “P.” The style of the emblem has been evolving over time until it reached its current modern and minimalistic look.
- It has earned over 50 Pulitzer Prizes and now employs around 3,200 people.
- 1900 The AP logo used over the first two decades of the previous century was totally different from everything that followed.
- The visual identity was built around a depiction of a row of telegraph poles with a cannon on the forefront.
- 1933 In 1933, a completely new emblem was unveiled featuring the “A” and “P” in black and white.
- 1942 In the 1942 version, this effect wasn’t used, yet the designer accentuated the vertical bars of the two letters by making them parallel to each other.
- The white fields from the previous logo were colored pink.
- This time, both the letters had serif.
- The glyphs were white with a black shade, while the background was red.
- 1955 The 1955 version featured not only a new color scheme (white and two shades of green) but also an updated shape of the letters.
- The text “The Associated Press” encircled the design.
- 2012 — Today Associated Press emblem The 2012 emblem The updated AP logo features the black letters “A” and “P” inside a white container.
- While the previous logo was designed internally, this one was developed by the New York design firm Objective Subject.
- The most distinctive feature of the logo typography is the white gap on both the letters.
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