If no money was exchanged for this, people would treat it as the crank bullshit it is
critical support to whatever marketing department scammed pepsi out of millions of dollars for the corporate logo version of the timecube manifest
Given that so many logo redesigns cost huge amounts of money and end up being some minor change like this, I do wonder whether this isn’t just kinda a standard thing to have pages of grandiose nonsense to justify paying millions for a change of font or whatever, and this was just the unfortunate one that got leaked
But yeah, absolutely phenomenal grift, it’s hard not to be a little impressed
Yes, it’s grift that helps insulate branding/marketing/executives from any negative consequences of the logo change.
If they paid 2 million dollars they can say the problem was their consultant, or that they just couldn’t have known, they did their best or whatever.
If they paid the same guy to make the same logo but they paid him $30,000 to spend half a year drafting logo proposals back and forth, then their ass is more firmly on the line when people drink 3% less pepsi the next year.
I particularly like the ones where they go through and spend millions on the redesign and millions more updating all their stationary and signage etc etc and it goes through hundreds of internal people and nobody says anything, and then the first person from the public sees it and says “that looks like a dick lol”
Marketing could be a pretty cool scam if it wasn’t just transferring value from the workers to people who thought they were creative.
