Pretty straightforward question:
What should Workplace.SE make their logo and site design? Any ideas?
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1Fairly simple and professional IMO, more like User Experience than Role-playing Games but I don't have specific ideas right now– ZeldaCommented Apr 16, 2012 at 11:51
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9Anyone else thinking Dilbert meets XKCD?– IDrinkandIKnowThingsCommented Apr 16, 2012 at 16:49
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@Chad I also thought Dilbert but couldn't think of how to incorporate it stylisticly– ZeldaCommented Apr 16, 2012 at 16:53
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I have been chucking over the though of stiky-hair boss :p– IDrinkandIKnowThingsCommented Apr 16, 2012 at 16:55
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1While the bulk of our questions, at least in the beginning, will be focused on the IT world and Cubicle-land, we shouldn't design the site to obviously exclude other, non-office, non-IT workplaces.– Jacob GCommented Apr 16, 2012 at 20:36
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1@JacobG in the West "work", especially "professional" work simply evokes the office-based work environment of carpeted walls, sticky notes and binders. In addition, less-office oriented work related items tend to veer far too job-specific. Oil cans, plungers and medical lasers all mean work to some people, but not 99% of people.– ZeldaCommented Apr 16, 2012 at 21:14
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@Chad I was thinking of plagiarizing Office Space. :) "Work Sucks." :)– KarlsonCommented Apr 26, 2012 at 18:40
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@Karlson I think gold badges should be red staplers :)– IDrinkandIKnowThingsCommented Apr 26, 2012 at 19:48
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@Chad I'll second that. :) That would be really cool. Black Staplers, White Staplers , and Red Staplers for the Badges!– KarlsonCommented Apr 26, 2012 at 19:52
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Our tabs could be like those Manilla folder tabs:
Somehow, somewhere, there should be a water cooler in it.
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Problem is it's a busy item for a background image. Possibly as a part of an icon or logo though.– ZeldaCommented Apr 27, 2012 at 21:31
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Work always makes me think of those cork bulletin boards. Perhaps we can incorporate that somewhere?
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3This should totally be the background of our community bulletin...if it can be made readable– Zelda ModCommented May 13, 2012 at 20:18
To be unoriginal, our badges could be coffee mugs:
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11I'll upvote this if someone delivers me coffee every time I earn a badge.– voretaq7Commented Apr 16, 2012 at 18:22
Our badges could be more like Neck-Tie icons, since tie represents a formal work environment. Much like the following icon in Gold, silver and bronze color.
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How about watches for badges?
There was the tradition started many decades back of giving an employee a gold watch for retirement. While we don't want folks to retire, it's topical, and may be a good fit?
Disclaimer: I failed art in high school and was told I draw wrong by my teacher.
Sample:
May need to touch up to insides of the watches too like this:
Though having the hands constantly stopped at 9am may not be what we're aiming for. 3pm perhaps?
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I like it, though that watch tradition seems to have died a while ago. Unless it confuses people, let's do it.– CMWCommented Jan 23, 2014 at 9:05
I'm thinking something along the lines of an office building motif: stylized cubicle furniture logo, or perhaps an building with "The Workplace" on a sign?
I have all the artistic sense of a star-nosed mole though.
I think when i think of workplace -i think of the "office chair" -
It of course the most critical element for us to function in the office; but sometimes "Chair" is also extended with Connotations of "Position" in the hierarchy in the company. The bigger the chair you have - the more influential you are really! Sometimes the biggest guys are called "Chairman" or "Chairperson".
But yet, i am getting a bit clueless on how this can be translated as part of theme.
A new thought, why not have paper clips as the badge icons?
I can't think of any workplace representative icon better than a paper clip!
It's been part of the workplace for decades, first in physical form, then again as Clippy the paper clip in word.
Handshake for a logo, like this:
Or water cooler, like this:
or like this:
See also: Chatting various ideas of site logo at Water Cooler