Champion Logos

chrishambly — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 09:23:42 -0400

I'm not sure about you but when people come up with decent logos it inspires me a fair amount. I'm not exactly sure why that is, maybe It's because I know how hard it can be to come up with the goods. I'm fairly handy with some graphics packages myself, my preference being Macromedia Fireworks, and I've typically put together lots of artwork in the passed for tons of sites.

But when someone can put pencil to paper and actually draw people and scenes it's a different ball game, the levels are raised and the game is all together entirely different. Not only that, capturing the essence of a brand, the style of it, takes some talent too and that is what impresses me most about the logos below, I think, for MediaCampBucks.

These were done by Eaon Pritchard (go say hello to him), way to go dude.

This is the main logo we will use on the wiki for the event.

This one is a banner which can be used as part of the promotion, the idea is you put it on your own blog and link to the event wiki.

And finally this one (which blew me away, how can I be attracted to a cartoon? She does things to me!) is for our major sponsor to have their logo on the back. We are aiming for about 150 people at the event, with each participant being given a t-shirt!

You can grab the logos yourself on our Social Media Mafia group in Flickr

If you are interested in some sponsoring for the event, wind your way over to the sponsor page .

Would love to hear what you think of these.

New Media Course Design

chrishambly — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 04:00:39 -0500

I’m designing a New Media course module which will sit inside an under-graduate degree, at the final year stage, so typically analysis, dissemination, examination, reflection, future visions etc would be considered.

I envisage a heavy emphasis surrounding the future of content distribution, both in terms of the shifting cultures we will operate in and also the converging technology coupled with wider accessibility.

A friend of mine Sean McKay suggests the following pointers:

• theory: rss, rethinking content, relationships, story, and human interaction
• practical: tools for audio, vid, text, & images + mashing it all together
• ethics: issues of identity, integrity, character, and intellectual property/copyright... questions like, who are you, really?

Whilst this is a good basic list as a start point for discussion, how would YOU embellish it, what would YOU add to the list, or how would YOU expand it, what challenges are YOU facing right now, what is missing in your knowledge, what techniques or skills shortages are not in your current tool box?

If you had to consider “outcomes” what outcomes would you want, how would you personally find yourself better equipped to monetise your new media activities?

Need you on this.