![]() “He trusted us and so gave us free reign to find solutions. “Bill Putnam was CEO and GM of The OMNI Group,” said McDonald. McDonald & Little team, 1972: (L to R) Tom Little, Mike McDonald, Bob Wages, Ted Burn (seated). He asked Wages to design the teams’ logos. Ted Burn, the agency’s senior art director, “had a keen eye for talent and knew Bob Wages had an aptitude for logos,” recalls McDonald. The agency had been hired by a group of local investors (led by Tom Cousins, Charles Loudermilk, Paul Duke, Bobby Chambers and Dillard Munford) that owned the OMNI arena, the Atlanta Hawks and a new NHL franchise they’d soon name the Atlanta Flames. But it was the next assignment that would be a game changer for the young designer. On his first day at McDonald & Little, Bob Wages, an assistant art director, was assigned to a team to design layouts for an ad campaign promoting then-unknown Senate candidate Sam Nunn from Perry, Georgia. “He looked like a kid,” remembers agency cofounder Mike McDonald, 82, and still actively involved in marketing projects locally and globally. ![]() Now 62, Wages conceived the iconic image as a 24-year-old, just out of college and new to his first job at powerhouse McDonald & Little. ![]() When the Atlanta Hawks unveiled a revised version of the historic “Pac-Man” logo in Game Six of their playoff series against the Indiana Pacers, no one could have been happier than Bob Wages. Bob Wages with the 1972 logos he designed for the Atlanta Hawks and Atlanta Flames. ![]()
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