[Foundation-l] Re: Wikimedia Research Team logo [was: Getting started]

Tue Jun 21 01:07:22 UTC 2005

On 6/20/05, Ilya Haykinson <haykinson at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/20/05, Aphaia <aphaia at gmail.com> wrote:
> > ...
> > Honestly I can't figure an organisation which department or internal
> > team has their own logos and don't use the organisation logo itself.
> > ...
> 
> I absolutely love the logo. It gives the people who discuss research

Not just the concept of a logo?  You love... that... logo?

Everyone can start dressing alike now.   People on the Contingency
Team should wear nothing but hunter's orange for the next three
months, until the first five-year-plan is safely underway (and under
six feet of concrete).  And you must refer to your significant others
as "mankind's last hope."

> With thousands of wikimedians, having a subset of them create a sense
> of group (or purpose) identity is well worth the trouble.

Right.

> Additionally, any designer will tell you that a consistent graphical
> language is important in building and maintaining a brand.

More reason not to mutate it.  Brand is sacred.

SJ

"NEVER UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES SHOULD ANYTHING POKE THE PILLSBURY
DOUGHBOY BELOW HIS WAIST"