RE: [GSAS-board] Library and New Ideas

["Susan Welenofsky" <welenofsky@comcast.net>]

Who was the artist? 

Happy Holidays, Susan

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Sent: Sunday, December 19, 2004 7:42 AM
To: Greater Seattle Aquarium Society board members
Subject: RE: [GSAS-board] Library and New Ideas

It's drawn in the same STYLE as those Indian orca and salmon pictures, but
take a look at the fin structure and body shape.

   - Erik

On Sun, 19 Dec 2004, Susan Welenofsky wrote:

> Humm, that's some interesting stuff! Well, I thought it would be cool to
> come up with something else. I didn't know it was a cichlid. I thought it
> looked like an orca, which reminded me of saltwater mammals.
>
> Susan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gsas-board-bounces@thekrib.com
[mailto:gsas-board-bounces@thekrib.com]
> On Behalf Of Erik Olson
> Sent: Saturday, December 18, 2004 8:09 PM
> To: Greater Seattle Aquarium Society board members
> Subject: Re: [GSAS-board] Library and New Ideas
>
> On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 welenofsky@comcast.net wrote:
>> Also, it might be time to do over the logo from 1977? We could have
>> "think tank" on-line for ideas for a new one. It could be fun...
>
> Eh?  The "logo from 1977" (actually earlier) is the lionfish, which was
> retired around 1996 when we created the current "northwest cichlid" logo.
>
> As one who was primarily responsible for that particular search, I can say
> this much: logos are tricky business.  Part of the reason we did the
> replacement in 1996 was that the former logo (1) was really difficult to
> see when imaged very small or displayed on a website, (2) didn't really
> have any sort of identity with Seattle or the Pacific Northwest at all,
> and (3) was a saltwater fish, when we were essentially a freshwater club
> at the time
>
> We were a bit concerned that the folks who came up with the first logo
> might be offended, but it turns out that the prior logo wasn't really a
> logo at all, but a cover drawing for one of the issues of _Northwest
> Aquaria_ in the very early 1970's and was adapted (or adopted) later as a
> logo in the 1980's.
>
> So I was particularly proud to have suggested one that solved all the logo
> problems at the same time.  We also held this as a "contest", but it
> was really no contest.  I researched the whole Northwest Indian motif
> thing, photographed a number of different drawings (including the tables
> on the Ferry to Bremerton!), and gave them to Ann Pace, who had done some
> great covers for the bulletin (you can see them still on the website in
> the "article archives" directory -- some of them are quite stunning).
>
> The other entries, what few we got, really sucked.  None of the other
> entrants really thought of the goal of a logo.  One was a nice drawing of
> an octopus.  Another was a couple crude pencil sketches from a
> self-admitted non-artist.
>
> I guess I'm saying that a lot of work went into the current logo, and
> there's at least one person out there that'll be disappointed to see it
> uprooted.  Yeah, it's YOUR club now, not the club of the people that
> did design it.  But you might ask, what is the purpose of changing it?
> Is there a purpose, or is it just something that one person thought would
> be cool to do?  Is there an alternative, like the Portland club does,
> where they design a cool T-Shirt graphic every few years?
>
> Anyway, that'll be my first, last and only words on this subject!
>
>   - Erik
>
>

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