I couldn't help but notice the serious similarity between two unrelated banks' individual logos (pardon the line at the base of the Provident graphic - it's part of the image from their site):
Besides similar shades of blue and type that in both cases seems to combine lines and curves, the most obvious similarity is the chamfered-box look of each bank's symbol. Each shape is made up of what appears to be four pieces wrapping around a central point with four void spaces around the outside. [*] I'm not a graphic designer or a branding specialist, but that's what it looks like to me, and the similarities were so obvious.
I don't know who designed which logo first, but it appears that one followed another. I'd be interested to know more.
*Edit: Originally, my blind and backwards self indicated that Provident's logo resembled a lower case "p" and "b", but Phil pointed out the error of my ways.
Besides similar shades of blue and type that in both cases seems to combine lines and curves, the most obvious similarity is the chamfered-box look of each bank's symbol. Each shape is made up of what appears to be four pieces wrapping around a central point with four void spaces around the outside. [*] I'm not a graphic designer or a branding specialist, but that's what it looks like to me, and the similarities were so obvious.
I don't know who designed which logo first, but it appears that one followed another. I'd be interested to know more.
*Edit: Originally, my blind and backwards self indicated that Provident's logo resembled a lower case "p" and "b", but Phil pointed out the error of my ways.