Who designed the McDonald's restaurant logo introduced in 1962?

Jim Schindler designed the McDonald's logo introduced in 1962.

Schindler combined the two architectural arches used on many McDonald's restaurants into a stylized letter M. The design transformed a building feature into a compact corporate symbol that could appear on signs, packaging, uniforms, and advertising.

The logo is often confused with the restaurant architecture itself. Stanley Meston designed the famous early restaurant buildings with arches, while Schindler created the later two-arch emblem used as the company's principal mark.

Although the arches eventually became a standalone symbol, the original design was closely connected to the roadside restaurant buildings that made McDonald's visually distinctive in the 1950s and early 1960s.