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Never forget that utterly ridiculous Pepsi logo design document (2023)

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Re: Never forget that utterly ridiculous Pepsi logo design document (2023)

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It seems pretty likely this was an intentional leak meant as a viral outrage based advertising campaign. The content is not just ridiculous but also underdeveloped for someone who actually believed it. And since I'm now reading it here on HN I suppose it worked.

I don't think it was "outraged-based" as it was "ridicule-based". Like, who actually got angry over the Gravitational Pull of Pepsi that leads to Pepsi Proposition instead of just mocking it relentlessly?

Re: Never forget that utterly ridiculous Pepsi logo design document (2023)

#12

It seems pretty likely this was an intentional leak meant as a viral outrage based advertising campaign. The content is not just ridiculous but also underdeveloped for someone who actually believed it. And since I'm now reading it here on HN I suppose it worked.

Maybe, but Arnell was rather eccentric and, by several accounts, had very much bought into his own BS.

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20120113061332/http://www.thedai...

[2]: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/why-the-firing-of-weird-design-...

Re: Never forget that utterly ridiculous Pepsi logo design document (2023)

#14
From the linked "best logos of all time" article:

"The best logos are those that have truly stood the test of time. As well as being distinct and memorable, often with hidden meanings and messages ..."

The pepsi universe and energy fields stuff is obviously wack, but most people are blissfully unaware of the depth of meaning, connotations, references, messaging, etc, in many logos, emblems, and even design 'dna', all around them.

Re: Never forget that utterly ridiculous Pepsi logo design document (2023)

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Once you visualize it as a shirt lifting up over an overweight man’s belly, it’s unseeable forever. I’m sorry.

Exactly, i actually thought they'd changed it back but no, still overweight man belly: https://ogden_images.s3.amazonaws.com/www.utne.com/images/20...

One of the worst logo's in a long time, the font is also garbage.

Re: Never forget that utterly ridiculous Pepsi logo design document (2023)

#20

Peter Arnell was the incompetent man who not only concocted the Pepsi logo, he also almost destroyed Tropicana. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/arnells-explanation-of-failed-t... The man ought to be inducted into the Dunning-Kruger Hall of Fame.

Not to pedestalize tech workers, but in my view we are still closer to say a carpenter, we accomplish things, make things, and the great ones also have an ethos, an aesthetic etc. as a bonus. Just like a great carpenter can also built a beautiful home.

The problem is the huge amount of people educated or nepo babied into positions with no actual foundation of "work", only fluffy business PDF's, design docs, leadership philosophy and endless workshop with no connection to the actual product, the actual user or the market, instead they float around in high society and write talk in endless streams of consciousness and do performance arts and rituals essentially.

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