Fashion & Design
General Business History
INDIANA
Logos & Brands
Famous Flops
100

This designer’s interlocking double-C logo is one of the most recognizable in fashion.

Chanel

100

This company started as an online bookstore.

Amazon

100

IU’s school colors are crimson and this one.

Cream

100

This chain’s golden arches are one of the most recognized logos on earth.

McDonald’s

100

This 2013 smart eyewear from Google was widely mocked and discontinued for consumers.

Google Glass

200

Louboutin’s signature design feature is the color of these.

Shoe soles

200

Henry Ford’s moving assembly line made this car affordable for regular people.

Model T

200

This annual spring bicycle race, inspired by a famous car race, is nicknamed “the world’s greatest college weekend.”

The Little 500

200

The FedEx logo hides one of these in the negative space between the “E” and the “x.”

An arrow

200

In 1985, Coca-Cola changed its formula and customers revolted, so the original came back within months.

New Coke

300

The Nike swoosh was designed by a student who was reportedly paid only this much

$35

300

Netflix originally made its money doing this.

Mailing DVDs

300

The 1979 movie Breaking Away, about a Bloomington cyclist, centered on this race and won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.

Little 500

300

The Amazon logo has a smile-shaped arrow pointing from the A to the Z, suggesting it sells this.

Everything

300

This 2017 “luxury” music festival in the Bahamas was hyped by influencers and ended in cheese sandwiches and lawsuits.

Fyre Festival

400

This typeface is so widely used it’s practically the default for brands like Target and American Apparel.

Helvetica

400

This 1980s event had Steve Jobs pushed out of the company he co-founded.

Leaving Apple

400

IU and Purdue play for this trophy in football

The Old Oaken Bucket

400

The bite in Apple’s logo is often said to be there so it wouldn’t be mistaken for this other small, round fruit.

A cherry

400

In 2009, this orange juice brand redesigned its carton, ditching the iconic orange with a straw in it, and brought the old one back after sales dropped.

Tropicana

500

Meryl Streep’s character in The Devil Wears Prada is widely believed to be based on this longtime Vogue editor-in-chief.

Anna Wintour

500

This investment bank’s 2008 collapse kicked off the financial crisis

Lehman Brothers

500

This quarterback won the Heisman trophy before winning the National Championship.

FERNANDOOO

500

The collar of the girl’s dress in this fast-food chain’s logo spells out “MOM.”

Wendy’s

500

In 2000, this video rental giant reportedly passed on buying a small DVD-by-mail startup for about $50 million.

Blockbuster passing on Netflix

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