... worked as an accounting teacher at Portland state University. It was there that he met Carolyn Davidson, a graphic design student. Knight offered to pay her a couple dollars an hour to do some design work for Nike (Becklund, 1994). In 1971 Davidson gave birth to what would become one of the ... the Nike Swoosh. The wings of Nike, the goddess of victory, inspired the Swoosh. Although she was paid only $35 dollars for the design it became so valuable to Nike that later when Nike became a large company, they gave Davidson shares in the company ("Nike Brand Marketing,"n.d.). ... comes in it...

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... brand name Nike was established and Bowerman and Knight decided to become independent. The first BRS retail shop was opened in Santa Monica, Calif in 1966. With the help of graphic design student Carolyn Davidson at Portland State University, the Nike symbol known internationally as the 'Swoosh' was created and the first line of Nike footwear featuring the ... design debuted in 1972. The first athlete to endorse Nike products was Steve Prefontaine, a man who held records in seven distances from 2,000-10,000 miles by the age of twenty- ... in factories in countries like Indonesia, ...

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... as far as 1971. Phil Knight was supplementing his modest income from Blue Ribbon Sports Inc. by teaching an accountant class at Portland State University. There he met Carolyn Davidson, a graphic design student, who was working on a multi-perspective drawing assignment in the hallway. He offered her a couple of bucks per hour if she would do some ... design work for his small company. This all happened because "Representatives from Japan were coming for a presentation and Phil wanted some charts and graphs to show them- according to Davidson. Apparently ... this wasn't the last time Ph...

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