One of the guys behind TCAL sent me a logo for IrishBlogs this evening, so I thought I’d put it to a vote.
The logo being offered is this one:
while the current logo is this one which was done by Hugh:
If anybody would like to make their feelings heard or would like to submit an alternate logo work away
Edit:
Frank from Bifsniff has come up with an alternate design:
From Hugh:
My one took sixty seconds and is shite.
New one much better… go with it!
H
From Anthony:
New one looks quite well.
From CyberScribe:
I’d go for the new one mainly because of the use of black and grey in it. I think it’d go overall with the site.If Hughs original only took 60 seconds I’d love to see a 5 min one sometime
From Alan:
Second logo is much better not to mention readable.
From maca:
2nd one is definitely the better of the two but perhaps you can get better.
I might give it a lash if I get time.
From blacknight:
If anybody wants to have a go at doing a better logo I’d be delighted
From Robin Blandford:
If you’re covering 32 counties, you gotta watch the Harp as a symbol in the logo… I fell into that trap with a logo earlier in the year!
From danger:
My only problem with the original logo was the fact that it didn’t match up with the grey background on irishblogs & was a little big, the white box made it look strange – fix that & I think it would look grand. I’m not sure I like the harp myself, it looks slightly unfinished.
From Piaras Kelly:
New one – ’nuff said
From Ed:
New logo is very nice
From blacknight:
Robin – The harp emblem did bother me a bit as well. It seems very “Oirish” – no offence to danger, but I’m not sure that Irish bloggers want to associate with that sort of iconography.
Alan – Do you mean the original one or the one danger supplied?
From Alan:
The one without the “Oirish” harp. ANd i would prefer it without the “Oirish” colours.
From maca:
I’m absolutely shite at graphics but here’s a few ideas I was playing with the past few minutes, they might give you some ideas of your own:
http://www.ssi-developer.net/irishblogs.htm
[page will be taken down in a few days]
From danger:
would be inclined to agree with the comments about the harp, it is a bit fiddly-diddly-dee & obvious, though I do still think it would fit in better with the site’s look & feel than the present one. maca, i like the second & third one, could be a good idea to go with the site’s colours as opposed to “Oirish” ones, though it seems to me that the logo should be different-colours wise, if only to get it to stand out more.
From maca:
Personally I see nothing wrong with using Irish colours, it’s an Irish blogs site so what’s wrong with irish colours??
From blacknight:
Maca – Colours are one thing, but harps are another
From maca:
Blacknight, well the harp is our state symbol so I don’t see anything wrong with that either, IF it’s done right. Best to keep it simple anyway.
From Rob:
As has been mentioned before, the intention seems to be to cover the whole island. If that is the case, then using the national symbolism of one of the two countries involved may annoy people. How much that actually matters is unclear – it’s difficult to do anything even vaguely pertaining to NI without annoying people.
From maca:
Well sites like Brit Blogs don’t seem to worried about such things. So I reckon we should do our own thing … er … by “we” I mean Michele, it’s his site.
From blacknight:
Maca – brit blog’s choice of iconography is a bit em .. overwhelming *cough*
From Rob:
BritBlog doesn’t include anywhere that’s not part of the UK, though, whereas irishblogs includes a place which isn’t part of the Republic of Ireland.
Though is the harp not a pre-partition symbol, anyway?
From blacknight:
Pre-partition? Depends on your point of view I guess.
From maca:
Rob,
the flag is also pre-partition
On the other hand there are Irish citizens in all 32 counties and even using the term “Irish blogs” will alienate a small minded few anyway.
This is typical really, we’re making the simplest thing political
From blacknight:
Oh help!
If “Irish” causes issues, how would we refer to them?
From maca:
I could think of a few alternatives
Anyway, I presume anyone who submits their site to Irishblogs don’t mind being called Irish so perhaps all this talk of symbols/colours is for nothing??
From Rob:
I can’t see that ‘Irish’ would be an issue, but it does presumably mean different things to different people, and not all those things necessarily hinge on the flag of the Republic of Ireland.
From frankp:
I just blogged my idea for an IrishBlogs.info logo…
See what you all think. Might give someone something to bounce off at least.
From maca:
Excellent, I like it. (talented fecker!)
From frankp:
whoooah… fast response! Thanks Maca
From Alan:
That looks great frankp. Much better!
From blacknight:
Frank – Very tasty. Do you mind if I grab it and place it in the post above so that people can see immediately?
From frankp:
thanks guys!
No problem Michele… sounds good.
From danger:
nice job frank, simple & crisp. – can we make sure that whatever logo ends up on the site matches the background colour? it’s actually a very slight gradient, so a transparent gif with background set to #F0F0F0 before hand should be perfect.
From blacknight:
I’ll be replacing the logo(s) with the one provided by Frank.
I think the logo is a nice representation, as it is Irish without being Oirish or potentially offensive to any sector of the community. It is a modern design which I think reflects Irish society – at least the online part of it anyway
Danger – I’ll look into making that change if I can persuade The Gimp to “play nice”
From danger:
freakish anti-white on grey logo person that i am, i went and fixed it up for you, hope frank doesn’t mind.
http://tcal.net/uploads/irishblogs.gif
should be transparent properly to sit on the gradient without looking a mess, if it does look wrong…umm, wasnt me.