I am all for a logo, but I also agree with Kevin it needs to be a community based decision. I'm also not sold that we need a professional designed logo, but I'm not against it either. I can understand why a business would not want to leave it to amateurs (although I have seen some great logos created by design school students) but I'm not sure what a professional logo would give us that a community derived one wouldn't. Roy, what do you think that would be that would gain by using a professional logo company?
Edward - actually wearing a code4lib conference t-shirt right now On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 11:48 PM, Carol Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, looking at Software Freedom Day, which has somehow managed to get > itself a logo with virtually no organizational infrastructure, I don't see > why Code4Lib shouldn't. I suspect their logo design wasn't done by > amateurs, however, even if they were volunteers. Of course they have a much > larger, global base of volunteers... > > I think it's a cool idea. > > Carol > > > > > On Sep 19, 2008, at 11:39 PM, Kevin S. Clarke wrote: > > I like the idea. A real logo would be nice. My one caveat is I'd >> still like everyone who'd like to have a voice to have one (I like >> voting). I'd be less in favor of a committee of volunteers to make >> the decision. I don't know how that would work with a professional >> graphic designer though. Could they give us several options and open >> it up to a vote? >> >> Kevin >> >> >> >> On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 11:29 PM, Roy Tennant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> I was in the middle of writing a blog post about Code4Lib going regional >>> when it hit me -- here we have this incredibly successful brand and yet >>> we >>> lack a t-shirt. But I guess we lack a t-shirt because we lack a logo to >>> put >>> on it. The closest we get are the items that decorate our web site. Are >>> we >>> at the point where we're ready to establish an official graphic identity, >>> that can grace our web site, journal, conference, etc.? I think so. >>> >>> So here's my proposal: we take some of the money that has been passed >>> down >>> from conference to conference and we hire a graphic designer to do a >>> professional job of it. Branding is best not left to amateurs. We put >>> together a committee of volunteers to handle it. >>> >>> I know of at least one design firm that I think would do a good job, >>> since >>> they just designed a t-shirt for OCLC that we really liked, and they were >>> delighted to work with library coders. See >>> <http://www.sanchezcircuit.com/catalog/>. There are no doubt others as >>> well. >>> >>> One of the nice things about a logo is that although it establishes a >>> solid >>> graphic identity, it doesn't really take any organizational >>> infrastructure >>> to do it, which seems to fit right in with the c4l vibe. So am I crazy? >>> Stupid? Or right? You decide. >>> Roy >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> There are two kinds of people in the world: those who believe there >> are two kinds of people and those who know better. >> > > Carol Bean > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
