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Fail Whale: How an image went from e-card to Twitter icon.
- indiejade 18y agoSimilar to what happened to the creator of the Nike swoosh: a logo or "brand" going from obscurity to icon status with not much realized ROI on the designer's side. Carolyn received $35 dollars for designing the Nike logo in 1971. http://www.vainnotion.com/blog/2006/04/that-apple-logo-creator-who-got.htm http://www.vainnotion.com/blog/2006/04/that-apple-logo-creat... Edit: info about the designer of the Nike "Swoosh" logo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolyn_Davidson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolyn_Davidson