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
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.
I don't see that as a problem at all, typically designers will start with a
few ideas, get feedback from the client, then make the final. The vote could
identify the leading candidate, but then we would likely need to give some
final guidance to the designer which would need to be distilled from
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
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
think it's a swell ideasolr is looking at a new logo, and this
site came up on-list:
http://99designs.com/
not endorsing, or painting a bikeshedjust a heads-up.
rc
