Adam Walker Cleaveland posted a few months ago about the desire for presbymergent to work towards having a logo. Well, folks – this is it. We at presbymergent would like to announce the beginning of the Official presbymergent Logo Contest.
We are hoping that your submission for the logo contest would take into consideration our commitment to the Presbyterian Church (USA) and to the Emergent conversation. It is also our hope that this contest will help both presbymergents and friends of presbymergent think creatively about what our logo might look and feel like. The contest officially begins today, and the deadline for logo submissions will be May 2nd. We encourage you all to submit ideas and spread the word about this logo contest through your blogs, email and Facebook. It’s our hope that this will also be a way to continue to get the word out about presbymergent. Here’s how the contest will work.
- People will be able to submit logos up until midnight on May 2nd.
- Logo submissions should be emailed to presbymergent@gmail.com and can be submitted in an appropriate file format (.jpg/.gif/.ai/.png).
- All entries will be posted on the presbymergent website after the deadline, and anyone can come and vote on the presbymergent site for their favorite.
- The top five with the most votes will receive one of the five prize packages below, be considered automatic finalists for the contest and proceed on to the final judging process. Although the winners will be guaranteed finalists, the panel of judges may also consider submissions outside of the contest for the official presbymergent logo. The panel of judges will consist of the Presbymergent Editors, friends of presbymergent and a few professional designers.
Prize Packages
Prize Package 1
The Practicing Congregation by Diana Butler Bass
From Nomads to Pilgrims, ed. by Diana Butler Bass
Tribal Church by Carol Howard Merritt
$30 iTunes Gift Card
Prize Package 2
Flirting with Monasticism by Karen Sloan
Ancient-Future Worship by Robert Webber
$40 Amazon Gift Card
Prize Package 3
Free of Charge by Miroslav Volf
From Stone to Living Word by Debbie Blue
$40 Amazon Gift Card
Prize Package 4
An Emergent Manifesto of Hope, ed. by Tony Jones and Doug Pagitt
They Like Jesus But Not the Church by Dan Kimball
$40 iTunes Gift Card
Prize Package 5
Everything Must Change by Brian McLaren
The Culturally Savvy Christian by Dick Staub
Your Logo printed on a t-shirt
Again – please pass this on to your friends with gifts in the graphic arts, and help us come up with a logo that symbolizes our hopes for presbymergent. Let the contest begin!
About Presbymergent Admin
I am not logo-savvy enough to know if my $.02 is any kind of helpful guide in the process of developing a logo, but if it is a help, here are my thoughts.
One way the vision of presbymergent has been described is, “to build & foster relationships” among those who are friends of PC(USA) and friends of Emergent Village, those who are loyal radicals. This is something presbymergent does both online and in-person through any means where there is “energy, intelligence, imagination, and love” to do so.
So when I think about presbymergent logo possibilities, I wonder what it could look like if it incorporated the theme/element of connectionalism – an idea that is both a core value of Presbyterianism and (I think this works..) Emergentism.
These links might confuse more than help, however, here are a few images that turned up in a search for ‘network’:
(scroll down for the image, but the first few paragraphs are helpful in explaining the concept)
http://www.heyotwell.com/heyblog/archives/000175.html
(this is another take on ‘network’, but maybe it’s too linear?)
http://www.orgnet.com/PersonalNetwork.gif
I’m a fan of both the PC(USA) seal and the Emergent Village leaf.
Much of what of what presbymergent is about is forming new connections within PC(USA) towards dreams of our future together, dreams that are centered in Christ and facilitate new growth.
(HT to Adam Copeland for his suggestion of a biblical/connectional/relational image)
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