Image of the Day: The Penn State Mark Super-sized!

Spotted in our warehouse on campus; just one part of a multi-paneled
display of a super-sized Penn State Mark. 

Image of the Day: Three Wrongs Does Not Make a Right

Oh dear, call the Mark Police . . . again.

There, that fixes it!

"Oh Dear, I Forgot to Call the Penn State Mark Police!"

I just received my new on-campus parking pass . . .
that uses the incorrect reverse version of the (old) Penn State Mark.
The parking pass is good through June 30, 2018.
(sigh)

Image of the Day: The Mark Police's Favorite Pen

"No! No! A thousand times no! You cannot use the same Mark that you did on the white pens we ordered last year and simply reverse the artwork."

Spotted at Happy Valley Brewing Company. . . 

Image of the Day: Mark Police

"No, you cannot flip the Paw Mark; the one on the left isn't even the correct version. These are owned and licensed by The Pennsylvania State University, and you cannot 'recreate' them, even poorly. Oh, Giant..."

Images of the Day: Mark Police

Jobs for the tireless Mark Police!

Yes, this version of the Mark is licensed!

"This Looks Like a Job for the Penn State Mark Police!"

Penn State Creamery Gift Card

Burger King

IST Building

IST Building

Giant Food

Giant Food

Images of the Day: Raising of the Chipmunk

Weighing in at weighs 6500 pounds, the Chipmunk logo is  ~35 feet by 25 feet.

The Cryin’ Lion

Since the story about the Sandusky sex scandal broke last Friday, a lot of Penn State employees — myself included — have found it difficult to sleep at night, wondering what new headline will greet us in the morning with ramifications reverberating throughout the entire campus community. Happy Valley is teaming with rabid reporters waiting for the perfect sound bite as paparazzi snap yet another unflattering image. All that and more, while we try to focus on our jobs, daily tasks, and deadlines. I suppose the best we can do is Keep Calm and Carry On — routine can be a calming, grounding force. That, along with a good pair of earbuds to help keep out the gossip, rumors, and conjecture, is about the best one can do. It is hard to believe it is only Tuesday evening . . .

“May Mount Nittany ever rise above us as the Guardian before the gates of Old Penn State. May the strong maiden Princess Nit-A-Nee ever stand in our midst as breaker and shield against the destructive power of the winds of fate.”


The Cryin’ Lion images first was used here.

New Logo

via savage chickens

1971: Nike Swoosh

via imprint
“June 1971 is the date the Nike Swoosh was launched. Designed by Carolyn Davidson for $35. The origin of the mark goes like this: Phil Knight, the co-founder of Blue Ribbon Sports (BRS) that evolved into Nike, wanted to differentiate BRS’s custom product from the ones they were importing from Onituska in Japan: ‘…so Knight turned to a graphic design student he met at Portland State University two years earlier.’ One day in 1969, the student, Carolyn Davidson, was approached by Knight and offered $2 per hour ‘to make charts and graphics’ for his business. For the next two years Davidson managed the design work on BRS. ‘Then one day Phil asked me if I wanted to work on a shoe stripe,’ Davidson recalled. The only advice she received was to ‘Make the stripe supportive of the shoe.’ Davidson came up with half a dozen options. None of the options ‘captivated anyone" so it came down to "which was the least awful...’ ”
Read the rest here.

Make the Logo Smaller Mugs

via how
Typography Shop has just released their first mug: Make the Logo Smaller.
Find out more and order it here. This makes me smile. 

Create an ambigram-style logo

via ComputerArts
John Langdon reveals how to bring rotational symmetry to your work, here.