How to charge $1M for a logo...

There's a lot of fluff, but senior execs like fluff.

I don't know where the fuck they thought they were going with the convention -> innovation bullshit diagrams at the start as they were meaningless. Perhaps they were saying "we're thinking outside the box on this one!". The "Universal Design Principals" probably gets put into every presentation.

Then they analysed the history of the previous logos, which was the most interesting bit I think. Talked about the golden ratio, which was probably copied from wikipedia.

The "gravitational pull" at the end is absolute bullshit. I think they are trying to say that because the logo looks like a planet it will attract people, just like gravity!

The presentation itself is very plain, ie. no logos of the advertising company, etc. But that's probably because it's a draft and that gets added at the end.

All in all, props to the sales guys at the advertising firm..
 


I think these huge exorbitant fees for logos are moreso for rights to use them and not have to continue paying royalties for their use rather than for their amazing design (or lack of). It's like are you really going to accept $25 to design a logo for the olympic games?
 
Good God what a bunch of bullshit.

Just do what Nike did. They bought their logo for $20 bucks and it probably holds the best brand awareness in the world.

Branding doesn't = fancy

It was actually $35 and the founder of Nike later gave the designer a diamond swoosh ring and a stack of Nike stock.

It's also been tweaked and modified several times over the years by other agencies.
 
It was actually $35 and the founder of Nike later gave the designer a diamond swoosh ring and a stack of Nike stock.

It's also been tweaked and modified several times over the years by other agencies.
how the hell do you tweak a swoosh?
 
how the hell do you tweak a swoosh?

Very subtly. It's been elongated slightly and over time has had the word Nike attached to it in different ways.

There was the whole JUST DO IT campaign which I think was a Chiat Day creation. Not that the swoosh needed to change for that, but I bet the creation of the various JUST DO IT logos probably cost them a mint (Chiat Day not being a cheap agency and all).