KFC Colonel Sanders

[Lookin]

Hey...does anyone know where i can get some cliparts of the KFC Colonel...I need them at High Resolution so if it's a site i have to purchase them at that wouldn't be a problem...please someone help me....

[morea]

you might run into problems with usage rights if you're not doing the project for KFC. If you are, they probably have a "pressroom" on their website that you can access with a user name and password.

I'd be awfully careful using such a recognizable icon for anything else.

[MD]

Only from KFC themselves. They recently updated their logo so sites like brandsoftheworld don't even have the latest one.

[Seapony]

Ditto on the possible infringement if you don't go through KFC. And I'm pretty sure that unless they have something to profit from it either as a sponsor or client, chances are the answer will be "no."

:cool:

[cnic]

I saw the colonels grave over thanksgiving. He's buried in Louisville, KY.... there is a bust of him on his stone.

hmmm.... not sure how that fits into this conversation.... but there you go.

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[Kinkaid]

If it's not for commercial work, you can always buy yourself a bucket and scan the new logo.

If you need it REALLY big, go to Nevada:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2006530004,00.html

:p

[budafist]

I just thought this was appropriate to put here.

This is a pic I snapped when I was over in Beijing earlier this year. It's a fast food place called Mr Lee's. Remind you of anyone?

China and their wacky copyright laws huh? :D


http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/448/dscn0226hy8.th.jpg (http://img207.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dscn0226hy8.jpg)

[Kinkaid]

Buda-
That's funny, because I'm sure you noticed in Beijing that KFC is HUGE over there- that and Pizza hut. :eek: >blech<

[PrintDriver]

I do believe that China is one several countries that don't abide by any of the global copyright laws.

Of course, who's to say KFC didn't alter their own logo...?

[Jam]

Check out their website, if they have a PDF of annual reports etc you might be able to extract a decent enough logo from it. Magnify the logo in acrobat if it doesn't pixelate then it is probably an illy file. Same the PDF to your hard drive and use illustrator to open it and there you have it.... one bonafidee logo!!

[marilynr]

They have one of the new logos at BrandsoftheWorld. (The Colonel has new stylin' hair in this one) You have to look through a few to find it. (I have it and can send it to you if you want)

Also, I discovered that if you search for Kentucky Fried Chicken (and not KFC) you get a cute loo of the Colonel dancing with his cane. :D

[patkennedy78]

If you need it REALLY big, go to Nevada:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2006530004,00.html

:p


Dang!!! That's pretty cool, I wonder why KFC is the first to do that. Here is what's really impressive:

"It was made by a team of 50 designers, engineers, scientists, architects and other professionals using one-foot by one-foot painted tile pieces."

1x1 seems a little much, I'd at least have done a 4x4 ft, that way you can just cut a sheet of plywood in half. And why did they need 50 people of all those different disiplines?? Seems like something a bunch of students and a google search could figure out??? I know, I know, one of those easier said than done things.

[morea]

although even if you do find it at brands of the world, it doesn't mean you have legal rights to use it.

Just saying, something so high profile is going to be recognized... so make sure you meet any and all usage rights before you proceed, unless you like dealing with lawyers a whole lot more than I do...

Just because you CAN do something doesn't mean that you SHOULD.

[Broacher]

Colonel Hiram -- the real guy, sounded even bigger than this branding monstrosity. His cooking skills really were, from all accounts, simply incredible--and the restaurant he ran was famous for it.

One thing I remember reading about him once was just how well he cussed. Not just the same three or four expletives that passes for 'sophisticated slang use' these days. He was a master of the lost art of creative profanity, with a uniquely southern twist.

Which makes it even more incredible to try and understand how he became one of the world's most easily recognizable faces. The power of persuasion, the power of advertising.

Hey, I even met him once. When I was a kid! The first Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet in Canada opened just a few blocks from where I lived and he appeared in our local labour day parade that year and shook just about anybody's hands.

Back then, you could smell that chicken cooking for blocks around, it used to make me salivate. And the taste and quality really was superb. In a nostalgically hopeful mood, tried some a few years back and nope, not even close.

[jimking]

If it's not for commercial work, you can always buy yourself a bucket and scan the new logo.

If you need it REALLY big, go to Nevada:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2006530004,00.html

:p
Why buy the bucket, just rummage through KFC's garbage can. :D
That's neat Buda, a Chinese version of Col. Sanders. I would assume that if it's a KFC in China that logo is legit.

[budafist]

I don't think it's a Chinese Colonel because it's a noodle house not chicken. Unless KFC decided to do noodles in China.