News & updates
Starting from the year 2000, our name has been “Collectorz.com” with our website at “www.collectorz.com”. Makes sense, right?
But since the release of our mobile apps, titled CLZ Comics, CLZ Movies, etc.. many users started to refer to us as “CLZ”. So we figured, let’s go with the flow and officially rename the company to just “CLZ”!
So last week we made the big switch. Our company is now called “CLZ” and our website has moved to clz.com. (We have owned the cool CLZ.com 3-letter domain for many years and now we can finally make full use of it!)
But that’s not all. We took this opportunity to make several other big changes:
- A new company logo and styling for the CLZ brand
- A complete redesign of the CLZ website, with a fresh and modern styling
- All CLZ mobile apps have new icons, to fit the CLZ brand and styling
- Our web-based software, previously called Comic Connect, Movie Connect, etc… , is now simply CLZ Comics Web, CLZ Movies Web
- Where necessary to make the distinction, we will refer to the mobile apps as “CLZ Books Mobile”, “CLZ Music Mobile” etc…
- The CLZ Shop has moved from shop.collectorz.com to shop.clz.com.
About the new logo and website
The old Collectorz.com logo was designed in the year 2000, by our friend Johan, an ex-colleague of Sytske and me (Alwin) from the Lost Boys period. Back then, Johan created the logo and the 2000 version of the website. Through the years, the circular logo has served us well, basically unchanged, even though the website has seen several iterations.
Fast forward to 2024, Johan now runs a design company called Studio Black, together with his wife Sacha. So we thought, how cool would it be to hire Johan and Sacha again to do our new CLZ logo, website and app icons? So we contacted them and they agreed! Over the past few months, we have worked together through several iterations of the design. And we are very happy with the final result!
Thank you, Johan and Sacha!
The new CLZ logo:
The new clz.com website:
New icons for the CLZ mobile apps
To better fit the new brand logo, new website and styling, we also updated the icons for all 5 mobile apps.
And while we were at it, we added support for dark and tinted / monochromatic mode.
Dark mode:
And these are the tinted / monochromatic versions of CLZ Comics:
Coming up…
Most of the rebranding has been implemented, but we’re not done yet.
These are the changes we are still working on:
- CLZ Scanner icon
- The CLZ web-based software (previously called Connect) will be moved from connect.collectorz.com to the nice and short app.clz.com.
- The CLZ Cloud site will move from cloud.collectorz.com to cloud.clz.com.
- Updating all screenshots, website content, manual content, emails, etc.. to reflect the new naming.
ETA: in the course of next week.