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Do you know about the Michelin Man's checkered (flag) past? :unsure:
If not, you might enjoy reading the article about the giant rubber man full of air (Maybe he should run for office?) at logodesignlove.com.
From the article:
If not, you might enjoy reading the article about the giant rubber man full of air (Maybe he should run for office?) at logodesignlove.com.
From the article:
There are plenty of pictures, and even a short video with the article.At the Lyon Universal Exhibition in 1894, the Michelin brothers noticed an evocatively-shaped pile of tyres on their stand. Édouard said to André, “Look, with arms it would make a man.” André Michelin would remember this moment a few years later.
In 1898, when looking at an advertising sketch for a brasserie drawn by O’Galop, André Michelin had an idea: why not replace the bearded giant raising his beer mug with a man made of a pile of tyres and holding a cup filled with nails and broken glass. The latin quotation from Horace, “Nunc est Bibendum” (now it is time to drink) declared by the character was also reused by Michelin...
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