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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]