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Raymond Loewy redesigned the Lucky Strike cigarette packaging and logo in 1940 on a $50,000 bet that he could increase sales simply through redesign. He focused on simplicity, changing the background to white and placing the logo on both sides of the packaging to reduce costs and increase brand exposure. The new minimalist design proved highly memorable and successful, winning Loewy the bet and significantly boosting Lucky Strike's profits. Famous logos tend to be both distinctive and simple, using limited colors and fonts to achieve maximum recognizability.
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- 6. "I'm no fan of cigarette marketing, but Loewy's vision for Lucky Strike (1940) might be the greatest packaging design ever”. Mark Frauenfelde Writer, illustrator, and co-founder of the Web's best blog, BoingBoing.
- 8. In 1940 a bet of $50,000 was placed with Raymond Loewy that he could not increase sales of the Lucky Strike cigarettes by simply redesigning the logo and packaging. Confident in his abilities he began re-design, his goal when designing was to make a logo that if seen just once would be imprinted in your memory, this was done using simplicity. The first change on Lucky Strike was to change the background to white, and place the logo on both sides of the packaging, this would reduce printing costs as well as increase brand exposure. He changed the text around the package to smaller sizes to not distract from the new logo design and to provide a clean white background. Needless to say he was awarded the $50,000 and increased Lucky Strikes profitability, not to mention created a design that is difficult to forget.
- 12. Famous logos have these two things in common: distinctiveness and simplicity
- 13. Important principles using only 2-3 colours not mixing 2 or more different fonts
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Editor's Notes
- In 1940 a bet of $50,000 was placed with Raymond Loewy that he could not increase sales of the Lucky Strike cigarettes by simply redesigning the logo and packaging. Confident in his abilities he began re-design, his goal when designing was to make a logo that if seen just once would be imprinted in your memory, this was done using simplicity. The first change on Lucky Strike was to change the background to white, and place the logo on both sides of the packaging, this would reduce printing costs as well as increase brand exposure. He changed the text around the package to smaller sizes to not distract from the new logo design and to provide a clean white background. Needless to say he was awarded the $50,000 and increased Lucky Strikes profitability, not to mention created a design that is difficult to forget.Do these design changes sounds familiar? White background… Google. Remove text on packaging to not distract… Apple. Designers today are still using the same design tricks Raymond Loewy was using over 70 years ago to increase profitability. Have we come full circle to simplicity, or did simplicity ever leave?
- Famous logos have these two things in common– distinctiveness and simplicity. The more complex a logo is, however, the less likely it will be that people will remember it.
- two very important principles of logo design are a) using only 2-3 colors for a logo, and b) not mixing 2 or more different fonts together in the same design. Using more than 3 colors for a logo can make the logo difficult to memorize. Additionally, using 2 or more fonts can cause confusion.