In the case of logo, as in many other cases, a professional hand is most
appropriate. Experience indicates that the result does not only depend on good
wishes, common sense and aesthetics.

Who would have imagined that Googles´s colored balls would be the right thing
for that brand?. 

As said before: it takes more than just good common sense.

Best wishes
Luis Herrera



Quoting "Edward M. Corrado" <[log in to unmask]>:

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




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