News New George Mason Logo

[GMUgemini]

I never liked the interlocking GM (they don’t interlock well visually in the first place), so those who kept asking for it can now live with that demand…

However, having seen both color combinations, the reverse color—green inside gold—is infinitely better than the gold inside green and should be used as the primary logo.

Edit: for those who haven’t seen it, here they are side by side:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1784980815488696453

View: https://twitter.com/MasonAthletics/status/1784980815488696453/photo/1

 

[Walter]

I never liked the interlocking GM (they don’t interlock well visually in the first place), so those who kept asking for it can now live with that demand…

I never understood that. G and M just don’t lend themselves to being fused together. Seems awfully forced.

 

[Walter]

All Together Different has always sounded like nonsense to me.

 

[gmubrian]

All Together Different has always rubbed me the wrong way.

Kind of funny tidbit related to that. My son is a rising college Freshmen, so he has been inundated with marketing materials form colleges/universities. I swear that most of them had some sort of marketing line that claimed they were "different".

 

[GMU79]

I never liked the interlocking GM (they don’t interlock well visually in the first place), so those who kept asking for it can now live with that demand…

However, having seen both color combinations, the reverse color—green inside gold—is infinitely better than the gold inside green and should be used as the primary logo.

Edit: for those who haven’t seen it, here they are side by side:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1784980815488696453

View: https://twitter.com/MasonAthletics/status/1784980815488696453/photo/1

I kinda like the gold inside green. But that's just me.

 

[gmutom]

Kind of funny tidbit related to that. My son is a rising college Freshmen, so he has been inundated with marketing materials form colleges/universities. I swear that most of them had some sort of marketing line that claimed they were "different".

I might have to trademark the tagline "We're the same as every other college ... just cheaper!"

 

[GMU79]

Any discussion of the quill logo?

From what I have seen, I haven't seen it...anywhere. Not as an alternative. Not as legacy. Not as academic.
Gee whiz, Mason quill or M quill. It is as distinctive and unique as it gets.
So sad.

 

[GMU79]

Kind of funny tidbit related to that. My son is a rising college Freshmen, so he has been inundated with marketing materials form colleges/universities. I swear that most of them had some sort of marketing line that claimed they were "different".

Okay, so what about
"We're More Different"
Or
"We Are Differenter"

 

[CHRISTOPHER JAMES JOLLAY]

I had a great idea while making fun of Gunnie on Twitter while bored at work:

Can somebody who is computer literate mock up:

A playful G, bouncing on a platform like M, about to dive into a U-shaped swimming pool? The green can be in the U-shaped swimming pool like Chicago on St. Patrick's Day, while the yellow can be a stream of urine coming out of the G landing on a small vcu Ram on the side of the pool

And DOUBLE the size of the TM cause that's definitely our logo for the next 100 years!!

I am such a f**king genius

 

[CHRISTOPHER JAMES JOLLAY]

I had a great idea while making fun of Gunnie on Twitter while bored at work:

Can somebody who is computer literate mock up:

A playful G, bouncing on a platform like M, about to dive into a U-shaped swimming pool? The green can be in the U-shaped swimming pool like Chicago on St. Patrick's Day, while the yellow can be a stream of urine coming out of the G landing on a small vcu Ram on the side of the pool

And DOUBLE the size of the TM cause that's definitely our logo for the next 100 years!!

I am such a f**king genius

The U could be in 3-D and enhanced by wearing certain glasses but only at certain times

 

[emjayar08]

I had a great idea while making fun of Gunnie on Twitter while bored at work:

Can somebody who is computer literate mock up:

A playful G, bouncing on a platform like M, about to dive into a U-shaped swimming pool? The green can be in the U-shaped swimming pool like Chicago on St. Patrick's Day, while the yellow can be a stream of urine coming out of the G landing on a small vcu Ram on the side of the pool

And DOUBLE the size of the TM cause that's definitely our logo for the next 100 years!!

I am such a f**king genius

I’ve been asking Midjourney to create a better Mason logo, and they keep making yellow and green birds flying over the G…

Maybe this is progress?

 

[CHRISTOPHER JAMES JOLLAY]

I’ve been asking Midjourney to create a better Mason logo, and they keep making yellow and green birds flying over the G…

Maybe this is progress?

Not quite my brilliant vision but I love it

Maybe a three-platformed M so the G can Triple-Lindy it

 

[Verdad]

What a wonderful time to be alive

 

[emjayar08]

Mid journey is not great for logo creation, but it’s something. I’m trying to get a GM logo that includes the quill, but it just wants to put birds on everything. So here’s some quite “super hero-esque” logos that they’ve created so far.

If someone wants to give me a prompt, let me know.

 

[MasonSAE4]

I’ll take a terrible logo every day of the week over AI generated soulless ideas

 

[emjayar08]

I’ll take a terrible logo every day of the week over AI generated soulless ideas

Agreed, but I think it’s cool to use these as starting off points and maybe take one and improve upon the vision.

 

[CHRISTOPHER JAMES JOLLAY]

Again if someone can do a playful G bouncing on the M about to dive into the U I think I can go to the BOV

 

[Walter]

As others have pointed out, the new logo resembles the Georgia Tech and Temple logos.

Both are really bad logos.

But it did occur to me that no one actually calls Georgia Tech “GT.” And no one will ever call us GM. It probably will encourage everyone to say “George Mason,” which I do like that over just Mason. I was never a fan of saying “Mason.”

 

[GMU79]

As others have pointed out, the new logo resembles Georgia Tech and Temple.

Both are really bad logos.

But it did occur to me that no one actually calls Georgia Tech “GT.” And no one will ever call us GM. It probably will encourage everyone to say “George Mason,” which I do like that over just Mason. I was never a fan of saying “Mason.”

Me either. It's George Mason University.
GMU! THAT should be our logo.
That and the quill.

 

[FlPatriot]

I might have to trademark the tagline "We're the same as every other college ... just cheaper!"

You forgot …’and we have a crappy logo’