Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!cat.cmu.edu!ns From: ns@cat.cmu.edu (Nicholas Spies) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: NeXT stat sheet Message-ID: <3445@pt.cs.cmu.edu> Date: 29 Oct 88 05:11:22 GMT References: <74950@sun.uucp> Sender: netnews@pt.cs.cmu.edu Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI Lines: 18 In article <74950@sun.uucp> swilson@sun.UUCP (Scott Wilson) writes: >> - paid $100,000 to Paul Rand to design logo >... >amazed that for $100,000 all you could get was the ugly NeXT logo. >Almost as bad as the infamous tilted rectangle logo of CMU for >which they paid dearly. Ah, but then again I work for a company >with one of the slickest logos going.... > The classic logo story is that of NBC, who also paid something like $100,000 for a logo that turned out to be _identical_ to that of Nebraska Public Television, which got some sort of cash settlement, and I think some equipment for the trouble. The Nebraska people had, of course, paid very little to an artist, whom we can only hope has gone on to bigger and better things... -- Nicholas Spies ns@cat.cmu.edu.arpa Center for Design of Educational Computing Carnegie Mellon University