heres he pdf being sent around listservs

http://web.umr.edu/~smf5y7/stuff/Rounds ... ncepts.pdf

discuss or send comments to Andrew Careaga, director of communications, at acareaga@umr.edu by Fri 24th

they suck. A kindergartener with a crayon could probably make a cooler logo.

Bring back the cog!

well actually voice your opinion in a professional way and maybe it will change

How's about a rhetorical question:

We hired a marketing consultant to play with Microsoft's Word Art feature?

Text for a logo does not leave an impression on people. I believe text embedded in recognizable images leave something to remember things by.

Looking at the logos again, the only thing I can remember from it that caught my eye just now is the pick axe that makes the tale on the ampersand. If I was someone unfamiliar with MSM, UMR, or MS&T, I wouldn't remember any of the initials.

lolz... knew that wasn't going to last long. Not sure what the big secret is anyway...

I think that those are some of the ugliest logos that I have ever seen. Nothing good about them. They all suck and I hope that they didn't pay someone to come up with those and if they did I have a bridge that they can buy that only requires some assembly (Minnesota bridge that collapsed).

I see a strong resemblence:




I think they should just keep the UMR logo but replace the letters with MST. Or better yet, don't change the goddamn name, but I suppose it's too late for that now

i like this idea more

The first is marginally passable, but they all really, really suck.

They generally look bubbly, like a high school girl drew them, they do not convey the professionalism that UMR's new logo will require.

IMO, these look worse than the last set they sent out a month or so ago...and that's certainly not saying much. They sure do like that "pickaxe in the ampersand" gimmick, don't they? I agree that we need a more professional-looking logo to compliment the (arguably) more professional-sounding new name.

Every time I see one of the new T-shirts I shoot myself in both feet.

QFT.

Out of the ones that came out a month or so ago, I think I found 1 that didn't suck. These are just awful. I mean, an aversion to change is fine, and it predisposes one against anything relating to the change, but even after acknowledging that, they still don't convey anything about the school. Granted, thinking about other "logos", none of them really are that great. I think we should just go with something simple and easy to read. To go along with the marketing BS: "A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." --Antoine de Saint-Exupery

None of those are too bad but honestly the name change isn't so bad.