Boy, those SDSU logo choices must have really stunk
I see from Argusleader.com tonight that my alma mater, SDSU, has opened up the logo contest to everyone in the world after three choices offered by a design firm flopped miserably:
The SDSU web site has several designs posted by Phoenix Design Works of New York City. Now the university is opening the design process to anyone interested in submitting a logo. The winner gets $1,000.Read it all here. And actually go here for the direct link to the challenge.
Deadline: June 30, through the SDSU Web site, www.sdstate.edu, and click on the button “Jackrabbit Design Challenge.”
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But we don't do them for $1,000.
(ps. pp, if this works, you get 5%
of the gross, homeboy.)
Bill Fleming.
Hot Pink Ink,
605-341-7043
Hopefully, someone will go back to the drawing board, and find something better. I still don't know what's wrong with the current logo. But, if it's got to go, those strange things weren't the answer.
We have a college of graphic arts at SDSU and they are good at what they do and people like the grads.
So can someone tell me why we spent all this money on New Yorkers to come up with designs that NO ONE likes when o my gosh we have the ability right here in SD. I am offened that maybe an outside source could have came up with something new and not a mind set of how something should look. But why and remember didn't the canaries have have trouble with one of their logos for "Cagie" (sp) looking to mena and scary?????
Hummmmmmmm brain running in reverse here!
I hear the department is very good and people want the grads so they must be doing good work so why didn't SDSU ask some of the grads to compete for design????
Seemed like a no brainer. Unless they thought it would help in other areas which i will not speculate on.
As a proud SDSU grad, I think somebody should be asking who should get fired because of this disgrace.
Of course, a uni-sex jackrabbit makes little sense. They can make this interesting by having a "jack" rabbit and a "Bunny" rabbit and inject a little sex into this to go with the violence on the football field. No sense having just one kind of rabbit these days.
Of course, if the NY designers were all gay, they might have drawn a "Jackoff" Rabbit so they could have three kinds of mascots.
Nonnie is on the right track. Why should students be forced to subsidize jocks? Athletics has nothing to do with education. I would guess 80% of the students given the choice of paying athletic fees or not would select to not pay them.
Apparently as a Div-I school we need a new logo....
I do not see that as a valid reason.
And really is this where our childrens' tuition dollars are going-- to pay for somebody else to come up with a new logo we do not need.
As for going D1 notice now SDSU also has a new fitness center because students other than the sports people "jocks" can not get in the hyper. I do remember that the weight room would be closed off during hours for the teams. Just because sports brings in the bucks education is supposed to be the main goal of high schools and higher ed.
makes you go hummmmmmm doesn't it. DOn't get me wrong i am NOT opposed to sports there just needs to be a balance. Theb alance whould not come off the students nor the taxyers in either case. Where is the BALANCE and fairness.
Does nay body want to talk what non trads have to apy when they go back to college! How about an exempt for paying activities fees. Or how about activities fees in high school this was just another way for schools to demand money from the families.
I know i covered more than a few topics here but lets get real on some of this.
no i did not proof this
Regarding the logo, I might agree with 9:30 that someone at State should be let go because of this. I’m not upset with the designs from Phoenix Design, however—I think they were probably a bargain for $5,000. The saying “you get what you pay for” has prevailed once again. Brand development is an expensive venture—and if you are going to go that route, I believe you need to be ready to pay for the best (not the mediocre).
If there's a political or newsy story involving the State's premiere institute of learning, I will usually write on it.
Outside of the logo and Prof. Aguiar, It's just been kind of slow lately.
I visited with a friend about this a month back, when the University first sent out Phoenix Designs three logo options to alumni for feedback. The concerns over copyright infringement are laughable—if they were real, we would certainly have heard from our friends in Hollywood by now. I believe the Board of Regents audited the intellectual property status of logos at all the state universities a few years ago. In response to that audit, SDSU brought their trademark registrations up to date—trademark registrations that cover all of its logos, including the jackrabbit. Implying imminent litigation is a great scare tactic to compel support from others, but it’s a completely preposterous proposition given that SDSU has been using that jackrabbit logo for over 30 years.
And it doesn’t look anything like Bugs Bunny.
Saying that our current logo somehow does not meet the “standard of a division one school” is preposterous. Here is a link to the Mid-Continent Conference site. Have a look, and I think you’ll find our current logo looks quite at home.
http://www.mid-con.com/gallery/logos/
Finally, I think all sports fans would rather have an intimidating team over an intimidating logo. I’m not aware that our mascot imagery is even used at football games. If the rabbit isn’t suitable for every situation, the school can always fall back on the interlocking SD.
This logo matter is trivial at best—but to the thousands of alumni who care, it is a sore subject. If nothing else, the university leadership responsible for the logo redesign process should realize that in their zeal to come up with something “new,” they’ve undoubtedly offended some of the “old.” Thank goodness someone is finally paying attention—here’s hoping for smooth sailing from here on out.
In as much as you are correct about the post you are refering to, I might suggest that you ALSO ream and cry to the Argus Leader who is such a professional paper which has many mispellings and other grammatical errors. hummmmmm, makes you go hummmmmm doesn't it you uppies!!!!
One more thing I think the poster also stated they DID NOT proof the post! O, my gosh, they admitted there most likely were mistakes. Slap em up... jezzzz
I say just wait the non sports students most likely will be displaced within the new building complex. Just up those fees one more time NON Stop....