The ampersand is great, the lettering is good. The problem is they don’t jive together at all. I mean even someone with out a design degree should see this. I think the ampersand should borrow from the OLD logo, make it less detailed and more stylized to match the font. Maybe make the ampersand larger, and bring the letters in closer and over lap a bit. Right now it just seems like two separate things.
The OLD logo I thought really worked well.
ETA - I just saw this logo below on the linked article. That’s what I’m talking about - increase the ampersand size and flatten, move the text together more and overlap some with the ampersand.
