RE: [GSAS-board] Library and New Ideas

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

Well, it does work, but there might be something even better. We will never
know unless we try. Not everyone is fond of the logo. I appreciate it more
now, though, after learning it was not from 1977. However, there are other
talented people in the club who might be able to do another one. It is just
an idea. Why let things go stale? Is it not a fun idea to have a contest for
a new one, and see what other people can do? Maybe something over the summer
break? I think it would be a nice way to include everyone on project. It is
a club, right? I hope we are able to put forth new ideas once in a while. If
there is nothing better than the current logo, then, we don't need to change
it, but if the new image was acceptable and better, then wouldn't that be a
nice thing? 

Susan

-----Original Message-----
From: gsas-board-bounces@thekrib.com [mailto:gsas-board-bounces@thekrib.com]
On Behalf Of DonaldR
Sent: Sunday, December 19, 2004 9:18 AM
To: Greater Seattle Aquarium Society board members
Subject: RE: [GSAS-board] Library and New Ideas

I'm no longer on the BOD, but I'm with Erik here. I remember the oldy
moldy "logo" and really like this one we have been using now!  There
becomes some identification of a club with a logo, so why play with it
now, if it ain't broke?

-Don Rudee

--- Susan Welenofsky <welenofsky@comcast.net> 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
> 
> -- 
> Erik Olson
> erik at thekrib dot com
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