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[kennykb]

Lucent?

[adonai]

Looks about right!

[nungesser]

@d_r

ETA: And while I don’t think a student or faculty member, working in isolation, will necessarily come up with something better or even as good as a graphics professional all else equal, there is more chance of community buy-in with an open process which is inclusive of internal talent, especially a competition.

When I went to the other UC (University of Cincinnati), their approach to getting a new logo design was to have each design faculty member offer a suggestion and choose one internally. This made tons of sense in theory, but in practice it showed the value of an outside viewpoint. The head of design’s suggestion, which he pushed hard and was almost adopted, was a box of U’s and C’s typed with a typewriter, so that there’d be no printing costs, and it could be created on the fly by a secretary when needed (this was 1992!).

[anon26940528]

@nungesser

The head of design’s suggestion, which he pushed hard and was almost adopted, was a box of U’s and C’s typed with a typewriter,

Well, you can type the current logo with a typewriter.