Comments on: Gas safe register take over from corgi.

By: Jon Orpwood

Jon Orpwood — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 12:43:23 +0000

I think that this is a strong and fairly typical public sector design that the average consumer can identify with.
We have been promoting our design and print services to plumbers and heating engineers and feed back has been fairly good. Also it seems that many companies have not changed their corgi logos since the initial introduction, so this is good for the consumers confidence, knowing that they are being supplied an approved service by their plumber. The logos are available as 2 designs on with the number included and one without, but it is recommended that the logo is still displayed below. We also have been able to supply stickers for the vans as a temporary option to cover up old corgi logos.

By: Plumbing

Plumbing — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 01:28:16 +0000

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By: Ian c

Ian c — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:19:21 +0000

Not sure if its a good idea or not to advertise the reg number on the stickers as rouge traders could copy the badge and use someone elses reg number. I also agree with the badge to a degree as there are a lot of vans out there with the old corgi badge on it but the guy using the van is no longer regestered

By: Jonathon

Jonathon — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:43:38 +0000

I agree with dave. I think we should keep the old corgi logo instead of using the new gas safe register wedge of cheese logo )I hope they did’nt pay anyone toot much to design that) I still run into people who don’t recognise the corgi shield after all this time so how do they expect the new gas safe register logo to become recognised by the customer in such a short time as capita intends them to maybe they should focus on promoting the old corgi logo. Better still why didn’t corgi focus on policing the gas installers properly instead of selling insurance and god knows what else that way they would not have lost their license from the Health and Safety Executive or maybe the HSE could have warned Corgi so that they could have made improvements that would have secured their license into the future.
Then gas boiler installers like us would not have to make all these expensive alterations to stationary, websites, van etc. I just hope that capita enforce the rules properly so they we all don’t have to make these changes again in the near future and I wish that when they do have to promote the new logo in april that they do a good job of it so that I don’t have to try to explain to the public why the logo has changed each time I go and do a gas boiler install. I thin this is going to cause an awful lot of confusion.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:27:13 +0000

I liked the old Corgi badge and the general public have got used to it and recognise it now, couldn’t we just keep the corgi badge and let capita run the administration of gas installers using the same badge all I can see this doing is costing the gas boiler installer a lot of money to change logos and confuse the customer!

By: jane

jane — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 10:06:09 +0000

I don’t think the logo is very appealing at all and as a designer implementing the new print changes onto stationery, vans etc it will be more expensive for individual business’ to achieve because they are not using existing colours (ie corgi orange etc).
and where are designers able to download a new ‘high-res printable’ .eps form of this for our registered clients? We want to get on with printing stationery etc before april comes around.