[Chapter-delegates] ISOC-ZA new website

[Eduardo Diaz]

It is my understanding that Greg Wood, from ISOC staff,  is finalizing the
logo design that will be used by chapters. ISOC Global will be issuing them
to individual chapters.

Eduardo Diaz
ISOC Puerto Rico

On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Marcin Cieslak <saper at saper.info> wrote:

> On Fri, 5 Mar 2010, Khaled KOUBAA wrote:
>
>  Hi,
>> Excellent work indeed.
>> But this bring up the question of chapter website conformity to the ISOC
>> Identity Guidlines (
>> http://www.isoc.org/isoc/general/identity/docs/identity_guidelines.pdf )
>> that gives some guidlines specially in term of chapter logo.
>> I am not speaking here only about ISOC ZA web site, but a big number of
>> chapter have not yet adopted those guidelines in their communication
>> material.
>>
>
> I think there is an ongoing discussion how should chapters apply
> the guidelines. TThere are some arguments for (like using uniformity)
> and against (like promoting diversity). For example, please see
> list of followers on the Lynn's twitter account:
>
> http://twitter.com/lynnstamour
>
> Having everyone unified looks strange - at least in conjunction with
> the Web 2.0 avatarmania. T
>
> The guildelines do not seem to address the issue of 80px x 80px
> icons used in online profiles of all sorts).  They also does not
> address the issue of ISOC pins (we have distributed quite a lot of
> them) that seem to violate non-separation rule (I think pins are
> right).
>
> Some reasonable middle ground is imho necessary, for example
> - we are using a modified version of the original logo (that's usually
> a no-no in a corporate identity world but we find it cool AND
> we have got permission to do that);
> - we are have copied ISOC's business card design (bar logo);
> - we used to follow the isoc.org website design (we are
>  still using the previous skin, don't know are there any
>  immediate plans to have new isoc.org look?)
>
> --Marcin
>
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