Meet the man behind the 'Long Island Fishbone' logo | 水產百科網

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Reid Carleton, owner of Carleton Clothing[1], came this close to putting his life on an entirely different trajectory.

The Brookhaven man behind the now-widely circulated logo that depicts Long Island as if it were a filleted fish — its bones exposed from Mineola to Riverhead — had once tried to sell his prize graphic for just $100.

“I actually emailed it to Newsday to see if they would buy the logo for $100,” Carleton recalled. “At the time I wasn’t doing anything with it, so I figured why not sell it and try to make a hundred bucks?

“They never got back to me, thank God.”

That was 2008 or 2009, and the logo, which Carleton had created as part of his senior year portfolio at New York City’s School of Visual Arts in 2005, sat on the shelf until 2010.

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