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 <[log in to unmask]> 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 <[log in to unmask]> 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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