For many automakers, printing the make, model, and trim on the back of a car is an afterthought ... But, the Star Wagon badge is still just text. To find something truly deserving of the Best ...

Those letters next to car names aren’t just for style — they actually reveal what kind of features, performance or trim level ...

For example: The fact that the badge of every Japanese car—even the ones not destined ... words in latin characters when the rest of a text is in Kanji. And because cars were the vehicle ...

Hood ornaments and badges were a calling card of sorts that gave the car identity in a sea of metal. Here's a collection of the finer details from the show.

Long before the annoying logo infected our handbags and our trousers, there was the car badge. Here was a perfect miniature exercise in the discipline of graphic design: within a modest space ...