i got past march 29th. and it feels like there is this life of possible leisure opening up on the other side. the compression of time and space that i was experiencing for the last several weeks has suddenly decompressed. the weather is getting nicer. graduation #2 approaches.
uh, can i make a neatlinks comment here? what’s up with the other t-shirt design. no disrespect to the other designer, but it took me a while to decipher what exactly it was. and what i came up with was gear heads and book heads. could this be how we want to represent ourselves?
It didn’t take me long to figure out that I thought the design was totally insulting. Why the antagonistic stance of the two people? I’m all over funny librarian sterotypes, but this is different. This is weirdly sexist. And who among us wants to present the image that there’s a disconnect or non-relationship between librarianship and information science? (plus it’s so ugly, it’s visually insulting…)
Heh. I certainly didn’t intend any sexist characterizations or antagonistic poses. The “gear head” and “book head” are supposed to be standing back-to-back as allies. In fact, that was the point.
Not to dis Justin’s design — it’s eye-catching, funny and, in all honesty, the better design. But it leaves me feeling a bit left out. I’m not a librarian (certainly no offense to those who are, or those on the LS/IS “cusp”). But, honestly, I didn’t feel the design was very representative of the SILS community, so I just threw together the other one in PS with one stereotypical IS person and one stereotypical LS person.
Again, no offense to Justin’s design. It is really visually striking and really funny. And it has the mark of good design: you instantly “get it,” which doesn’t seem to be the case with mine.
Justin, that was YOU on the Shush design???!!!?? Jeez, boy…how the heck did you think you could get away with using a copyrighted design? I nearly choked when I saw it…
yeri: i thought the irony of the shush tshirt was extensive enough to encompass both halves of sils, with LS reclaiming the librarian stereotype in these hipster times while also poking fun it and IS engaging in a gentle jab of their LS peer while exerting that “yes, i go to library school and no i don’t have a problem with that”.
that’s a remixed logo of a remixed logo only adds to its appropriateness.
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I wonder how many other 2nd years have that feeling of calm. You have a lot going for you to be able to stay in the same job in the same town. School must feel kind of incidental in all of that.