Boston Globe June 12th 1992

Few cheer harder for the Portland Trail Blazers than Frank Glickman of Boston, whose company designed the team's original logo in 1969 and provided the newest one unveiled this season.

Four designers took four weeks to design the original. "We were the only design company that was asked to submit ideas, and we gave the Blazers a dozen ideas," said Glickman, a Portland native who operates Frank Glickman, Inc.

An update was requested in 1989. Glickman, working alone, produced 18 variations in six weeks.

The symbol has five curved stripes going up and five more heading downward, all from a center circle. "It's an abstract design we came up with several weeks before the team had been named," Glickman said. "The club felt it was suited for them. They looked upon the stripes as meaning five guys playing defense and five guys playing offense and coming from center court."