Hello WordPress friends and blogging neighbors! I (Morgan Senkal) am thrilled to take over the fabulous work that Aaron Hockley has done with WordCamp here in Portland. My two goals for this event are:
Make WordCamp Portland 2010 as fabulous as last year
Make it even better, if that is even possible!
I decided that the very first [...]
See up there? At the top of the website? (RSS readers will need to click through)…. we’ve got a logo!
The folks at Brash Creative put together a few logo designs and this one was selected. It was designed by Jason Tyler Burns to represent the intersection of WordPress and Portland.
Thanks to Jason, the rest of Brash, and Bram Pitoyo for helping to coordinate the design.
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I like the concept, but I keep reading it at WordCam PDX. The double P might be awkward, but removing it (and switching from lower-case to small-caps) seems confusing.
The logo is really nice, complete with bridge and Mt Hood. Jason did a great job.
However I agree with Reid that it needs the other P in it. Seems a little off without it.
I agree. It needs 2 P’s.
Love the color scheme and some of the gradients going on. It is very busy for a logo, though. I feel like there is too much going on at once. I’m also not crazy about some of the intersections that are happening (for instance the ‘X’ and shadows of Mt. Hood). Didn’t notice the ‘P’ issue until it was pointed out, but am now reading it as Word Cam