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
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