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Irish Blogs – Choose the Logo

November 30, 2005 by Michele Neylon 35 Comments

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:
Danger\'s Irish Blogs Logo
while the current logo is this one which was done by Hugh:
Irish Blogs - logo
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:
Irish Blogs - Frankp

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  1. Hugh says

    November 30, 2005 at 7:57 pm

    My one took sixty seconds and is shite.
    New one much better… go with it!
    H

  2. Anthony says

    November 30, 2005 at 9:04 pm

    New one looks quite well.

  3. CyberScribe says

    November 30, 2005 at 10:50 pm

    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 πŸ™‚

  4. Alan says

    November 30, 2005 at 11:48 pm

    Second logo is much better not to mention readable.

  5. maca says

    November 30, 2005 at 11:55 pm

    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.

  6. blacknight says

    November 30, 2005 at 11:57 pm

    If anybody wants to have a go at doing a better logo I’d be delighted πŸ™‚

  7. Robin Blandford says

    December 1, 2005 at 1:59 am

    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!

  8. danger says

    December 1, 2005 at 11:04 am

    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.

  9. Piaras Kelly says

    December 1, 2005 at 12:57 pm

    New one – ’nuff said

  10. Ed says

    December 1, 2005 at 3:59 pm

    New logo is very nice πŸ™‚

  11. blacknight says

    December 3, 2005 at 7:55 pm

    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?

  12. Alan says

    December 3, 2005 at 8:58 pm

    The one without the “Oirish” harp. ANd i would prefer it without the “Oirish” colours.

  13. maca says

    December 3, 2005 at 10:25 pm

    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]

  14. danger says

    December 4, 2005 at 2:52 pm

    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 β€œOirish” ones, though it seems to me that the logo should be different-colours wise, if only to get it to stand out more.

  15. maca says

    December 5, 2005 at 9:21 am

    Personally I see nothing wrong with using Irish colours, it’s an Irish blogs site so what’s wrong with irish colours??

  16. blacknight says

    December 5, 2005 at 9:27 am

    Maca – Colours are one thing, but harps are another πŸ™‚

  17. maca says

    December 5, 2005 at 9:30 am

    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. πŸ™‚

  18. maca says

    December 6, 2005 at 10:07 pm

    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.

  19. blacknight says

    December 6, 2005 at 10:52 pm

    Maca – brit blog’s choice of iconography is a bit em .. overwhelming *cough*

  20. Rob says

    December 6, 2005 at 9:54 pm

    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.

  21. blacknight says

    December 7, 2005 at 1:12 am

    Pre-partition? Depends on your point of view I guess.

  22. Rob says

    December 7, 2005 at 1:00 am

    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?

  23. maca says

    December 7, 2005 at 6:55 am

    Rob,
    the flag is also pre-partition πŸ™‚
    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 πŸ™‚

  24. blacknight says

    December 7, 2005 at 8:20 am

    Oh help! πŸ™‚
    If “Irish” causes issues, how would we refer to them?

  25. maca says

    December 7, 2005 at 8:52 am

    I could think of a few alternatives πŸ™‚
    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??

  26. Rob says

    December 7, 2005 at 11:03 am

    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.

  27. frankp says

    December 7, 2005 at 7:45 pm

    I just blogged my idea for an IrishBlogs.info logo…
    See what you all think. Might give someone something to bounce off at least.

  28. maca says

    December 7, 2005 at 7:49 pm

    Excellent, I like it. (talented fecker!)

  29. frankp says

    December 7, 2005 at 7:57 pm

    whoooah… fast response! Thanks Maca πŸ™‚

  30. Alan says

    December 7, 2005 at 7:58 pm

    That looks great frankp. Much better!

  31. blacknight says

    December 7, 2005 at 8:01 pm

    Frank – Very tasty. Do you mind if I grab it and place it in the post above so that people can see immediately?

  32. frankp says

    December 7, 2005 at 8:13 pm

    thanks guys!
    No problem Michele… sounds good.

  33. danger says

    December 7, 2005 at 10:40 pm

    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.

  34. blacknight says

    December 13, 2005 at 1:45 pm

    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 πŸ™‚
    Danger – I’ll look into making that change if I can persuade The Gimp to “play nice” πŸ™‚

  35. danger says

    December 13, 2005 at 6:48 pm

    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.

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