Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 17:02:26 -0500
From: Steve Smith <sgs at aginc.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Changing the rocket...What's up?
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

Keith F. Lynch wrote:
> Ok, Ernest and Gayle emailed me variants on the logo.  I've placed
> their two variants, and the original, at http://www.wsfa.org/logos.htm
>
> Everyone who has an opinion, please tell me whether they prefer the
> first, second, or third.  (In order not to bias things, I'm not saying
> which is which.)  Please also tell me if the page *doesn't* consist of
> three similar logos, or if anything else looks wrong.
>
> My inclination, however, is to use none of them, since the original
> author objects, even if he doesn't have a legal case against us.
> Would someone volunteer to make a completely new logo?  Thanks.

I like the third, with the more saturated yellow and the text not on top
of the rocket.  However, it feels unbalanced -- like there should be
something on the bottom/right of the circle.  "WSFA"?

The original design puts the circle at the back, the Capital on top of
the circle, the rocket on top of the Capital, and the text on top of the
rocket.  Weird visual cues; while I dearly love Escher-esque graphics,
if we do them, it should be deliberate.

I'd be interested in seeing what ideas folks would come up with for a
new design.  Sketches, anyone?

--
Steve Smith                                    sgs at aginc dot net
Agincourt Computing                            http://www.aginc.net
"Truth is stranger than fiction because fiction has to make sense."