Umm..... Looking at https://brandingwikipedia.org/, I wonder if this refers to WMF's ill-fated effort to rebrand Wikimedia as Wikipedia that I hope has been abandoned. I hope that WMF did not, without consulting the community or even having the courtesy to notify us, decide to launch another rebranding effort
Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 11:27 PM John Erling Blad <jeb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Note that "Dagens næringsliv" printed the story Thursday, so they must > have had information about it before WMF left the meeting with > Snøhetta. This is no longer a breaking story. > > On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 12:04 AM John Erling Blad <jeb...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > This is out in several newspapers now. > > > > "Snøhetta shall create new visual profile for Wikipedia-owner" [1] > > > > A quick Google Translate dump > > > > The mission is the largest in the field of graphic design ever, writes > > Dagens Næringsliv. > > > > - For me personally, this is very big, but you see it in a larger > > perspective - Norway, Norwegian design and graphic design - then this > > is one of the largest international customers who have come to Norway > > and chosen a Norwegian design agency. So it's very big, says strategic > > advisor Sanda Zahirovic in the design department in Snøhetta to the > > newspaper. > > > > Eight companies were in the competition for the assignment. Creative > > director Heather Walls at Wikimedia will not go out with Dagens > > Næringsliv with what other companies were talking about, but says that > > Snøhetta was the obvious choice. > > > > Snow hood founder and partner Kjetil Trædal Thorsen cannot say how > > much the contract is worth, but emphasizes that the work is devoting a > > good deal of resources during the project period, which is half a > > year. > > > > [1] > https://www.aftenposten.no/kultur/i/mRd1pp/snoehetta-skal-skape-en-ny-visuell-profil-for-wikipedia-eier > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
