Friday 3 August 2012

A clever logo

I like clever logos. I don't like complicated, contrived ones.

The logo for the Year of Faith 2012 - 2013 is complicated, contrived and....clever.

Never have I seen so many symbols gathered together in one small space contributing to an overall image - that works!

But YoF does it! Congratulations to those involved in its creation.

ENGLISH VERSION OF YEAR OF FAITH LOGO

So, what do you see? A cross, a host, the IHS acronym, and a ship (barque of Peter?) that pulls the whole graphic image together very neatly.

But...can you also see Jonah's whale? Or, is that a graphic too far?

Anyway, the whole concept works (if you study it which you aren't supposed to do with logos).

Hooray and huzzah for something good.

6 comments:

  1. I dunno, Richard; it looks awfully 1968-ish, part of the cultural clutter of felt banners, guitars, and tambourines.

    -- Mack in Texas

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  2. Mack, you may be right.....I'm deflated. But, it's better than most of the dross that comes our way.

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  3. The logo reminds me of Don Bosco's dream about the two columns (one surmounted by the Host and the other, by a statue of the Virgin) and where the Holy Father steered the ship in the middle of a storm and moored it between the two. Have you heard of it, Richard?

    God bless
    Sonia

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  4. Yes I know of this account Sonia, but had forgotten it. That's another interpretation for the logo.

    Richard

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  5. Thanks, Sonia and Richard; I'll read up on Don Bosco's dream.

    Still, those awkward graphics...eek.

    - Mack in Texas

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  6. I spotted the whale!

    It's definite LIKE for me...blame it on being a millennial.

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