[game_preservation] SIG Icon and theme

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Hi All.

I know I'm the new guy, but I just wanted to throw out some ideas...get the creative juices flowing...

Andrew is right--text with the IGDA logo is boring.  A graphic would be preferrable.  I think that having a theme focusing on the words 'game' and 'preservation' should be followed:  

a space invader inside a bell jar?
a 5.25 disk with a cobweb, and a featherduster?
An open vault door, with atari joysticks spilling out?

Do any of these have any merit?
(sorry--just musing...)

Joe

---- Andrew Armstrong <andrew at aarmstrong.org> wrote: 

> Hey all,

> 

> My last newsletter got me thinking - if we're publicising anything (and 

> the IGDA is being updated eventually, we hope to a better setup) we 

> really need something to easily display who we are. Most of the other 

> SIG's have a good icon, perhaps we need one too.

> 

> Anyone here have any ideas what it should be? Anyone here able to put a 

> design forward?

> 

> Here are the other SIG's that I could find, all of them are varied in 

> their design.

> 

> http://igda.org/education/img/Topc.jpg

> http://www.igda.org/wiki/images/9/9a/SIG_Logo1_small_text.jpg

> http://www.igda.org/mobile/images/header.gif

> http://www.igda.org/qa/images/QASIG.jpg

> http://www.igda.org/women/images/header_new01.jpg

> http://gwsig.quantumcontent.com/images/personalheader.jpg

> 

> If we're going to be boring, doing it as the mobile guys have (some text 

> next to the standard IGDA header) would probably work. I'd be also 

> interested if anyone has any theme ideas for colour schemes or site 

> layouts - I'm beta testing the new IGDA site and will investigate what 

> we can change (and complain a lot if we can't, since I want to make a 

> site at least as good as the QA site! <http://www.igda.org/qa/>)

> 

> If no one comes forwards, I'll put forward my own ideas, although since 

> I'm no graphic artist, it'll be of limited imagination and competence :)

> 

> Thanks all,

> 

> Andrew