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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.