In 2021, Hara partnered with Xiaomi, designing a new logo for the company, which was unveiled on 31 March 2021. Hara and his company converted the previous square logo into a combination of a square and a circle. He earned $300,000 from the project.
Reconsidering my life choices right now…
A more charitable possibility: there could have been an honest four-year cycle of design explorations and presentations of options, revisions… none of which will never see the light of day thanks to internal politics, and the company just non-deciding on a safe option.
Even if that is factual, the company went to this high profile designer because they wanted a story to go along with their logo.