Designer Carolyn Davidson talks about creating the symbol ... Knight hired her as a graphic designer and a few years later, that's how she came to create one of the world's most memorable ...

pioneers caught their first glimpse of the black, curvy checkmark, the graphic designer waited patiently for a reaction. Nothing. Then, what else you got? Carolyn Davidson, pushing back ...

Did you know that the woman who designed Nike's Swoosh logo only charged the company $35 for her work? Carolyn Davidson, the mind behind the now-ubiquitous mark, ended up designing it after a ...

One of those women is Carolyn Davidson, the woman who designed the iconic Nike Swoosh back when she was still a student at Portland State University. Long before former Design Indaba Conference ...

The story behind it is recalled by Swoosh creator Carolyn Davidson in a piece ... "Then every designer's dream job came in," Davidson says. "[Knight] said, 'Would you like to design a shoe stripe?' ...

The team behind Portland-based Nike’s marketing has been coming up with innovative ads since 23-year-old graphic designer Carolyn Davidson invented The Swoosh in 1971 (she was paid $35 ...

so Knight turned to a graphic design student he met at Portland State University two years earlier." One day in 1969, the student, Carolyn Davidson, was approached by Knight and offered $2 per ...

A graphic design student who created the iconic ... “That wasn't all Nike gave me,” Carolyn Davidson told sports journalist Darren Rovell in 2016. “First of all, they gave me my start.