26Cadillac
The Cadillac logo came from the crest of the founder of Detroit, Le Sieur Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac.
27. The Eskimo logo on Alaskan Airlines planes is Chester Seveck, a reindeer herder who for years greeted tourists getting off the plane at Kotzebue, Alaska.
28. The Xbox logo went with the color green because the original designer only had that one color marker left after others stole the rest at Microsoft.
29. The Mexican free-tailed bat is featured as Bacardi's logo because it pollinates sugar cane and protects it from insects.
30. One of the main reasons WWF founder Sir Peter Scott choose a panda as the organisation’s logo was to minimize printing costs (needing just black and white).
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The 20th Century Fox logo at the start of "Die Hard" looks stretched as an assistant editor accidentally used a non-anamorphic version of the logo which was stretched when projected as widescreen. The producer liked the look of it and the same version was used for the sequel.
32. Toyota's logo depicts a thread going through the eye of a needle. It a call back to when Toyota used to make weaving machines.
33. The Lion's roar from the Metro-Goldwyn Mayer logo is actually made from tiger vocalizations, as "lions don't make that kind of ferocious noise and the logo needed to be ferocious and majestic."
34. The Ferrari logo originally decorated the plane of Count Francesco Baracca, Italy’s top WWI fighter ace. After Baracca was shot down, his mother gave the badge to Enzo Ferrari, saying “Ferrari, put my son’s prancing horse on your cars. It will bring you good luck.”
35. The United Nations logo is centered around the North Pole to avoid any one country/continent being more prominent.
