My company decided they wanted to use Annie Oakley on the logo. The legal team got the rights to her image, but the art department had her facing away from the company name. Everything was fine after the whole art department worked all night on the reverse cowgirl.
I can’t remember the model’s name. She was being interviewed for Esquire and told this story. She was talking to a young executive and told him that she’d grown up on a farm and like the kind of man who had his own tool kit. When she went to his apartment that evening he proudly showed her a brand new tool kit, still in the plastic wrapping. Someone thought this guy should be making important decisions
Mildly interesting read. ‘The Strange Case of Eliza Doolittle.’ The premise is better than the execution, imho. Sherlock Holmes, Eliza Doolittle, and Dr. Henry Jekyll. Timothy Miller is the author.
I remember when Obama was considered cutting edge because he used a Blackberry