Path: utzoo!yunexus!geac!syntron!jtsv16!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!agate!bionet!apple!voder!kontron!optilink!cramer From: cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: NeXT stat sheet Message-ID: <609@optilink.UUCP> Date: 28 Oct 88 18:14:51 GMT Article-I.D.: optilink.609 References: <74950@sun.uucp> Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA Lines: 25 In article <74950@sun.uucp>, swilson%thetone@Sun.COM (Scott Wilson) writes: > > - paid $100,000 to Paul Rand to design logo > > When I saw this on that entrepreneur show on PBS (?) featuring Jobs > and others (I guess it was on about a year and a half ago) I was > 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.... > -- > Scott Wilson arpa: swilson@sun.com I think I have disagree. The Sun logo is clever, but I don't find it pretty -- the NeXT logo is at least pretty. Anyone who needs to throw a $100,000 into logo production, email me -- I'm sure I can come up with something every bit as nice as the NeXT logo, and I'll only charge you $50,000. :-) Seriously, the money people put into logo designs makes no sense -- especially when you look at how unimpressive the results are. Remember when NBC paid five or six figures for a two color "N"? -- Clayton E. Cramer ..!ames!pyramid!kontron!optilin!cramer