KFC logo seen from space
KFC has the honor to be the first brand to be visible from outer-space, according to company officials. The 87,500 square feet logo was created by tiles placed in the Nevada desert, near the super secret Area 51. The stunt marks the revamp of the KFC logo, which now features a more streamlined image of Colonel Sanders. (click image to enlarge).
UPDATE: Who had the first corporate logo to be seen from space?
From the KFC news release:
The "Face from Space" took more than 3,000 hours to create from inception to launch and was built by Synergy, a leading event company.
The logo consists of 65,000 one-foot by one-foot painted tile pieces that were assembled like a giant jigsaw puzzle: 6,000 red, 14,000 white, 12,000 eggshell, 5,000 beige and 28,000 black.
The logo took 24 days, working around-the-clock, to manufacture and ultimately produce. It then took six days on site to construct the logo, during which time the logo design pieces were kept hidden and under cover from identified and unidentified flying objects.
KFC has also now reintroduced the name "Kentucky Fried Chicken" into their marketing materials.
BONUS: Google has video of the logo's creation:
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Reader Comments (80)
this makes me want to kill myself
Hopefully we can look forward to Taco Bell's Spicy Gordita logo soon!
Mmm...87,500 square foot Spicy Gordita.
I agree... placing shotgun in my mouth...
Take that PETA!
Now the aliens will leave us alone..
I guess now we know what that face on Mars actually is. A big corporate logo!
Extra Crispy!
Were all gonna die, cause the aliens will stop for chicken. And get nuked my the government. So thanks KFC, thanks for dooming the Human race.
-Free
So what? Big deal. Now do something really impressive like vastly improving the animal husbandry for all those animals that are slaughtered in the name of Colonel f\/ck|ng Sanders
who the hell cares, i can zoom on google earth or google maps and see my car from space.
I wonder what it looks like from Uranus though. Probably the same as any KFC experience...
OKAY that wasn't nice, but I bet you smiled at first.
Im not sure about from Uranus, but what about when PETA-ites pull their heads out of theiranus to look at it.
Will their collectivist heads explode and leave tin-foil all over to pollute the earth.
great. how much did they spend to market to the 3 guys on the Space Station who couldn't buy their greasy crap even if they wanted too?
i hope the shareholders are happy.
Anyone know what the longitude and latitude are, so we can locate it on Google Earth?
37º 38.801' N, 115º 44.760' W
Looks like their running a promo on their website about it too...
Great know the aliens know we all have clogged arteries and are properly fattened up for harvest. All hail our mighty conquerers!
My company's logo is the earth, so technically we've got KFC beat by several million years, or however long the continents have been in basically this position.
Great viral marketing, I mean it's so relatively cheap and simple and it will get them alot of attention. Not sure that it will be viewable from space though.
Either way the company has had a lot of bad PR, and personally I hate the company - their lack of care for customers (read: lady finds chicken head in her order), and their inhumane treatment of the chickens (read: chickens fed dead chickens, mass poison consumption) - the company deserves to die a horrible and costly death.
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Chris Norris said, "So what? Big deal. Now do something really impressive like vastly improving the animal husbandry for all those animals that are slaughtered in the name of Colonel f\/ck|ng Sanders"
Actually, he wasn't a Colonel - common misconception. He was actually a Conciencious Objector.
"Stinky Rotten Chicken!", they used to say to him.
"Aha!", said the Colonel, "That gives me an idea".
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looks like they are far from first
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Not the first, Maxim mag did it last year.
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Errrr....
1) The premise is completely nonsense.
2) I think I can do a better job at taking an image from googMaps, opening the gIMP, opening a picture of my money-maker and conveniently locate it wherever I want...
just imagine if those had been solar panels..
Take us to your leader... NO not Bush!.. The Fried Chicken guy!
I don't know how you define "visible from space" -- but the Mattel logo outside their corporate headquarters is clear as day on satellite views, and has been for years.
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=el+segundo,+ca&ie=UTF8&z=18&ll=33.921088,-118.391563&spn=0.00341,0.006201&t=k&om=1