Snøhetta to work with Wikipedia community on new brand identity

Snøhetta has teamed up with the Wikimedia Foundation to develop a new visual identity for its global organisation that will be generated in partnership with volunteers from around the world. The nonprofit organisation that operates Wikipedia asked Norwegian design and architecture firm Snøhetta to help it create a branding system, that supports Wikimedia’s stated objective of “setting knowledge free“. The foundation’s owners were concerned that the existing Wikimedia name and branding is not known or unde