In the past couple of years, we’ve experienced a lot of exciting growth at Vox Media. We’ve evolved from a leading digital publisher to a more diversified modern media company, expanding to podcasting, TV and to building products that support media businesses. In 2019 we examined our brand from the standpoint of the company we had grown into being and the bold future we knew we were building only to realize that more change and disruption was around the corner in 2020.

Our new brand identity reflects this evolution and a durability and resiliency that we know we’ll need as we venture forward. New York’s Triboro Design studio working in collaboration with Vox Media’s internal design team developed something that would convey a bold and modern feeling as well as a reductive aesthetic. At Vox Media we build things that are functional and beautiful in their simplicity and we wanted to reflect that without frills and unnecessary embellishments.

The logo is designed from the foundation of the three letterforms that form the word Vox, each of which can be reduced to simple geometric shapes - a triangle, a circle and a square. The rest of the letterforms respect that geometry with the V shape mirrored in the letter M of media. The elemental nature of the logo is not only meant to express a simplicity in design but also not to upstage the more expressive and diverse logos of our expanding editorial portfolio. Our previous logo included a shield like symbol which had lost any context or meaning and felt like unnecessary adornment.

As a companion to the simple reductive logo, Triboro also created a more expressive custom display font, meant to provide a kinetic forward leaning counterpoint to the logo.

Much of this had been in the works for some time when we made the decision to join with New York Media, the company behind the New York Magazine properties. Given the rapid evolution of Vox Media and of media in general, we’ve come to think of change as inevitable.

Credit for this new identity goes to David Heasty and Stefanie Weigler of Triboro Design and Georgia Cowley, Krystal Stevens, Courtney Leonard, Josh Laincz, Alex Medina, Victor Ware of Vox Media Design.