1957: The Cadillac badge started to trend to a long, low and wide shape with the 1956 models, most likely to try and emphasize the advertising pattern during this period. The crest in this trend through 1959, when the crown at the top nearly disappeared. The crest was most broad in 1960.

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1933: Designers used the same elements for the V-8, V-12, and V-16, along with giving them wings to try and match the more streamlined styling for the new Cadillacs. This new design remained the same on all radiators up until 1935, but they made the crest detachable in 1934.

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They split the original coat of arms into two parts - a coat and shield. The crown (Couronne) symbolizes France’s six ancient courts. The pearls, that have been used with a different number in the family and also the automotive crests, symbolize that the family is of royal descendants of Toulouse. The shield represents the noble family’s courageous origins, taken from inspiration from the shape of shields used by warriors of the past. The shield is made up of four quarters. The first and fourth sections show the arms of the Mother family. The birds are merlettes, adaptations of the martin, but they do not have any legs or beaks. To this day, the crown along with the merlettes are no longer included in the crest of Cadillac.

1906: The arms of Cadillac was not a registered trademark until 1906, but they were being used as early as September of 1902. The original emblem featured a seven-piked coronet garlanded with a laurel wreath that is very similar to the registered design with merlettes slanting down towards the left and a wreath that was made up of tulip-shaped flowerets arching up to the crown with seven points.

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1908: The logo’s design gradually changed into a more graphic visual pattern. Upon the receipt of the 1908 Dewar Trophy to Cadillac, the slogan was also added to recognize the achievement of the standardization of parts.

With these new changes, they kept the same color scheme. According to Cadillac, the black against the gold symbolizes riches and wisdom; red meaning boldness and prowess in action; silver, to symbolize purity, virtue, plenty, and charity; and blue to stand for knightly valor. Along with these, behind the wreath and crest, the background is platinum, which is the highest value of any metal.

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The emblem of Cadillac, known commonly as the wreath and crest, has been redesigned over the past 100 years nearly 30 times, reflecting changes to both the company’s design and culture direction.

1963-1999: Used on products with little to no changes over a 36-year span, then was modernized in 1999 for a more chiseled and sharp design.

1920: Between 1916 and 1918, a badged that incorporated the wreath with the tulip-bulb was used by Cadillac from the original nine-point crown trademark that had nine points on the crown. They later reverted the crown to seven points and added it to the crest in 1920. This is the crest that remained until 1925.

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1947: New emblem designs came for Cadillac post-war, which changed into the basic “V” and crest design. The emblem from 1947 is one of the first badges to incorporate the “V” with the crest after the war, even though it had been used previously in V-8 emblems.

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The crest of Cadillac was a design inspired by the French adventurer Antoine de la Mothe, Sieur de Cadillac’s coat of arms. He is noted in 1701 for the founding of the city of Detroit and is said to be an ancestor of Henry Leland, founder of Cadillac. The coat of arms was first used on Cadillac cars back in 1905 and was a registered trademark in the following year.

In the early 2000s, the company of Cadillac adopted a new logo, which was the first real difference or change in the company since 1963. The wreath and crest were made to look sharper and sleeker, along with crisp angles, trying to align with the company’s bold “Art and Science” philosophy of design.

A symbol of excellence redesigned, it is inspired by the work of Piet Mondrian, a European artist known as a very prominent geometric painter of the 1900s.