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Q Malandrino

Q Malandrino

40+ years in Branding, in global agencies and two firms of my own, from Rome and then in New York with a 3-yr detour in Paris. I'm at masterbranded_com.

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rebrands > McLAREN

6 min readSep 30, 2026

I’ve done about twenty ‘rebrands’ in my career, from global to regional, and I wrote about it a lot — from a piece with the great Allen Adamson https://lnkd.in/gx8Cwbbh to a more workmanlike sequel coming soon. In this series, I’ll examine the given example based on different perspectives:

- Strategy/Announcement/Launch (based on what I can see that was made public)

- Business

- Brand

- Identity

- Wo/Man-in-the-street.

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McLAREN

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Relevant Experiences

I’ve done about 20 global and regional rebrands, had a couple of ‘extra’cars in my life (not quite ‘super, sadly), did some racing in my youth, after Ferrari it’s my favored F1 team (and my son has a Lando-signed hat), I’m a fan of the brand at large (but it’s #3 after Maserati and Aston Martin) worked on the Compaq sponsorship of Williams in 2002, and had a faraway involvement with Signify > Mercedes.

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Q Malandrino
Q Malandrino

Written by Q Malandrino

40+ years in Branding, in global agencies and two firms of my own, from Rome and then in New York with a 3-yr detour in Paris. I'm at masterbranded_com.