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Coming soon: new Jackrabbit designs
Committee working closely with design firm to finalize new athletic mascot.
Heather Mangan
The SDSU community may be able to vote on a new Jackrabbit design as early as next week, Jackrabbit mascot redesign committee members said.
The committee held a teleconference April 23 with representatives from Phoenix Design Works, the New York City firm hired to redesign SDSU's mascot, said Jenny Crickard, the committee's liaison to the firm. The committee gave feedback on the firm's latest designs, as well as giving ideas using different logos and mascots, said committee member Kat Brandtjen.
The committee plans to narrow the search to three styles of jackrabbits - traditional, stylized and abstract - for the public to vote on. Brandtjen said that although the committee gave a few minor suggestions, it has pretty solid designs for the traditional and stylized rabbits. She said the focus is now on the abstract design.
The Collegian printed a version of the rabbit Jan. 31 that committee members said was close to the final product. Many students and alumni responded negatively to the realistic-looking design and several wrote letters to the editor. Brandtjen, who was uncomfortable about that design, is happier with what she has seen recently.
"I feel a lot better about the process and the direction the committee is going with it," she said. "The logos we have seen are vast improvements over what was out two months ago. They are much better-working models than the previous rabbit.
"I am more pleased, but I am still holding out that we'll see something that will pop. I hope we are going to something exciting out of the abstract rabbit."
Students' Association President Alex Brown, who was also not impressed with the first realistic design, is more comfortable with the latest designs. . . . (read more)
Go State!
Coming soon: new Jackrabbit designs
Committee working closely with design firm to finalize new athletic mascot.
Heather Mangan
The SDSU community may be able to vote on a new Jackrabbit design as early as next week, Jackrabbit mascot redesign committee members said.
The committee held a teleconference April 23 with representatives from Phoenix Design Works, the New York City firm hired to redesign SDSU's mascot, said Jenny Crickard, the committee's liaison to the firm. The committee gave feedback on the firm's latest designs, as well as giving ideas using different logos and mascots, said committee member Kat Brandtjen.
The committee plans to narrow the search to three styles of jackrabbits - traditional, stylized and abstract - for the public to vote on. Brandtjen said that although the committee gave a few minor suggestions, it has pretty solid designs for the traditional and stylized rabbits. She said the focus is now on the abstract design.
The Collegian printed a version of the rabbit Jan. 31 that committee members said was close to the final product. Many students and alumni responded negatively to the realistic-looking design and several wrote letters to the editor. Brandtjen, who was uncomfortable about that design, is happier with what she has seen recently.
"I feel a lot better about the process and the direction the committee is going with it," she said. "The logos we have seen are vast improvements over what was out two months ago. They are much better-working models than the previous rabbit.
"I am more pleased, but I am still holding out that we'll see something that will pop. I hope we are going to something exciting out of the abstract rabbit."
Students' Association President Alex Brown, who was also not impressed with the first realistic design, is more comfortable with the latest designs. . . . (read more)
Go State!
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