A young Hong Kong student redesigned the Apple logo to tribute to Steve Job(former chairman of apple.Inc).
The design gained massive popularity and lead to a job offer for the student. The student, aged 19, told the press that he was stunned to see that his design tribute to Jobs became a sensation worldwide.
Jonathan Mak of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University did not know about the response on his logo after Jobs’ death. He had created the design, when Jobs quit his post of Apple CEO, as a tribute to his passion for simplicity. Many other designs which combine Jobs’ silhouette together with the Apple logo were created by other people but no one imagined making it into a bite. Mak’s logo was a huge hit on many social networking sites. Mak has been approached by the local media and many foreign companies and software developers. Also other designers are also trying to reach him for collaborations. A proposal to use his logo for raising funds for cancer research has also been offered.
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