Who doesn't love a good badge, right? From the most obscure of features to the longest of oddly-translated sayings on the back of a Kei car, there's just something nice about having words and images ...

Car badges are often meaningless bullshit decorations designed to dazzle buyers and impress onlookers with things that are mostly pretty normal. Some offenders are worse than others, however. Here are ...

Palm Springs is a car town, and the Coachella Valley is full of car people. Just look at all the car auctions, dealerships, shows and even race tracks we have here. Old cars are big, too, along with ...

These badges stand out amongst the hordes of boring alphanumeric names and uncreative designs. Here are the best car badges on earth. Scorpions, with their big claws and venomous stingers, are often ...

When you look at a car and see the word "TURBO" on it in giant font, that doesn't leave too much to the imagination. It's very obviously turbocharged. The same can be said with badges on some Chrysler ...

You know what's odd about the 1960 Starliner I photographed for the October 2015 issue ("Super Star")? It's got the hottest engine Ford Motor Company had cooked up—hotter than the dual-quad E-code ...

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, a world ...

One of the things that's surprised me in OKC is the number of newer cars that have badges put on them by the dealership. Last time I was driving, more than half the cars I saw had them. In my worlk ...

2015 was the year of the unofficial hardware badge at DEF CON 23. There were a ton of different hardware badges designed for the love of custom electronics and I tried to catch up with the designer of ...