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I think the most interesting point is that the logo was crowd sourced (and used SVG) which I didn't know before. The logo seems fine to me but the process is pr

by kriro 12y ago

I think the most interesting point is that the logo was crowd sourced (and used SVG) which I didn't know before. The logo seems fine to me but the process is pretty exciting. The author of the blog post seems to think the crowd sourcing is not the greatest idea and it should be "left to the pros". I disagree with that general sentiment, why shouldn't wisdom of the crowds also apply to design tasks? At the very least it's dismessed a bit too quickly.

shortformblog 12y ago
Hi, author here. I'm not personally opposed to the idea of crowdsourcing, nor the idea of changing a logo as needed—I respect Rand Paul for doing this, actually. But I was writing that section of the piece with the assumption that _Paul Rand_ might not like it, considering that some of his commentary near the end of his life (in the early age of computers) questioned the negative effects that democratized design, specifically through desktop publishing, had on visual identity. Design has gotten better online in recent years, and many more people are handy at Photoshop/InDesign than they were two decades ago, but this philosophy was one common in the early desktop publishing age, when people commonly screwed up things like kerning, typographers' quotes, and so on.