WCA Logos

Lucas Garron

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We all know our fantastic WCA logo. But it didn't have to be that way! A simple Google image search for "WCA logo" yiels these other fine candidates: :p

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I think a new WCA logo would be nice. Perhaps a contest would be nice.

Here are my opinions on the current WCA logo:
-By looking at the logo without knowing anything about the WCA, you don't know the order of the letters (whether it is CAW, CWA, WCA, etc.).
-The circle around the outside of the cube is redundant.
-The cube in the middle could perhaps use a little more detail. I hate looking at a logo and not knowing what it is.
-I think representing the globe somewhere on the logo would be nice.
 
I notice that the colored band around the cube has the same opposite-colors as the Western color scheme. I think we should try to avoid color-scheme bias, at least where the two most common schemes are concerned. I also notice that the cube only reads WCA if you read left-to-right. If you come from a country where you read right-to-left, perhaps you will think it is the WAC? It is not entirely clear.

I'd like to propose a new logo idea. (Could someone be nice enough to draw a mock-up of this? I can make an illustration in Paint, but it won't be very pretty.) Instead of the colored band, you have a stylized globe of the same size. Instead of the cube with letters on it, I suggest a 3x3 of the same size, with black (non-reflective) 'plastic' and completely square stickers. I would also suggest a color scheme of U white F green R red, because this combination appears in both Western and Japanese color schemes. Finally, for the letters, either we could place them under, or we could cut out a small piece of the globe to make it resemble a "C", and then place a larger W and A next to it (although this would mean we would have to shrink the globe/cube a bit).
 
I don't think anyone would care at all about wether it's an existing colour scheme or not... really who cares? And people reading from left to right would they even know what the letters WCA are standing for world cube association? Would that change if they would read it backwards? (don't take this too seriously ;))
Anyway, I do think that the logo can use some updating along with the rest of the WCA website as I state in this thread on the WCA forum.
http://www.worldcubeassociation.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=486
Sadly only 86 people viewed the thread so far and only Lucas replied saying he liked the idea. Wouldn't it be cool to get a new website with more feats together with a new logo? It would be the start of a more modern and more widely known speedcubing sport :)
 
Get 3 7*7*7 or 6^3 or 5^3 V cubes, take pictures of them when you make a face of each of the cubes spell WCA.
I did this with the 3x3 cube for CTY.

 
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Get 3 7*7*7 or 6^3 or 5^3 V cubes, take pictures of them when you make a face of each of the cubes spell WCA.
I did this with the 3x3 cube for CTY.

Heh, interesting idea. I remember in Germany I spelled out V CUBE with five 6x6s. A picture doesn't really work too well for an official logo though, and just drawing the letters on a virtual cube is too easy to make a logo out of :P


gogozerg/gilles: cool videos. It's a very good idea to have a nice animated logo, in case we want to have any official press releases :)
 
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