Logos

You guys know I'm on the board of my Alumni group. We're attempting to redesign the logo. I'm curious to see if your opinions (as unbiased outsiders) are the same as the board's. This is the old one:



Looks like a maternity clothing label, doesn't it?
These are my attempts:





Those two are based on 'SC's logo.
Here's another one:



That one was based on a Picture Start frame, with a bit of tweaking. (Can't have any blue when we're sharing a city w/ Bruinfolk.)

The last few designs are based on the work of designer Saul Bass, who did movie credits and posters for directors like Hitchcock and Preminger. Here's an example of his work:



This would be the logo, as I imagine it:



This is how the logo could be incorporated into the website (which we're also designing):


Both designs, desaturated. It's easier to see the edges here. The graphics are supposed to look like paper cut outs:



An alternate logo incorporating the same ideas, this time using a Flash Frame. This would work well on screening flyers and whatnot:



Thoughts? Ideas? Does the camera look too much like a booby girl? That's NOT intentional. We are NOT smut peddlers!

We ASPIRE to be smut peddlers.

I Must Remember Never to Annoy the Famous...

...because they do not fuck around. Celebrities are gangsta.

Think about it: they've got posses, they've got guns, and if they shoot you -- even if they confess, and there's blood, and a murder weapon, and a witness....

They're still not going to jail.

Man, I can't wait till I'm famous.

(I promise not to shoot anyone that doesn't deserve it.)

:)

The Nutcracker

(photo copyright Mikhail Metzel)

Newseum.org

I bet you're already excited. Good. You'd better be. Because I just found the coolest site on the whole internet:
Newseum (TA DA!)
It's a museum dedicated to journalism, and their website is fantastic. Its best feature is a section that contains scans of newspapers' front pages from around the world. And they're not snooty; any paper can send a PDF scan of its front page.
Newseum is opening in Washington, D.C. in 2008 and I'm totally going. I will seriously book a plane ticket specifically to visit this place. Maybe I'll see the Capitol Building or something while I'm there, on the count of I haven't seen it since I was ten, but only if I've got time.
I've got to prioritize.
And now, a super-sized, super-geeky sampling of the wares (this is not for the faint of heart):

Beijing, China.

London, England.(UK)

The Guardian is a classic. I love the layout, the font, the close-up photograph on the front page....

Iceland.

The major statements are the photograph and the font of the paper's name. Both make me think of Bergman, a native of a neighboring Nordic country.

Beautifully designed. Our newspapers don't get that kind of attention, though a few of our non-glossy magazines do. Some of the papers below are just for fun, but I think it's interesting to see what was considered important enough to deserve a spot on the front page of the newspaper yesterday, depending on where you lived. It's also fascinating how people around the world prefer their news presented to them.




















The other papers' countries of origin, top to bottom:
Taiwan
Russia
UAE
Sweden
France
USA
Portugal
Japan
Canada
Brazil
Turkey
Bahrain
Iran

Where Babies Come From

"Fine, you wanna know, I'll tell you. But you're gonna wish you bought that stork bullshit."

(photo copyright Eugene Hoshiko).

Greenspan on "Meet the Press"

Watch his segment on NBC, but these were his answers for the rapidfire name-a-president section:

Who was the smartest?
Toss up between Clinton and Nixon. Once for a State of the Union address, someone put the wrong speech in Clinton’s teleprompter. I don’t know anybody who knew the difference, and I think that requires a degree of intellectual capabilities...

Who was the most profane?
Nixon by multiple quantities.

Who was the most normal?
Ford, one of the most decent people I ever met.

Who was the least knowledgeable about economic matters?
All were fairly knowledgeable.

Who put the most political pressure on you?
George H.W. Bush.

A choice quote from Greenspan’s Fox News interview on Tuesday? “Bill Clinton was the best Republican president we’ve had in a while.”

Republicans were pissed because they thought they were in a committed relationship with Greenspan when ALL THIS TIME he was getting some on the side with the Dems. But they still can’t go after him, because if this dude sneezes, the Market gets jittery. He’s the perfect supervillian and he’s totally wasting it. I urge Greenspan to demand sovereignty over a state -- one of the good ones -- while he’s still young enough to think up something ridiculous and amusing for his subjects to do.

Emmys

All I can think about are the film students who had to park 25 blocks away from campus all week.