12 Replies to “Fun new Logo for CMAA”

  3. Is this a done deal, or are you looking for input? Women: a good point, yes. But something more vertical might communicate more of the intent of the group.

  4. The women started their rehearsal at the same time, but it is common knowledge that women learn music faster than men, so they have gone home already.

    Vertical, like reaching to the heavens rather than playing and singing music that is horizontal, serving only to bring humans to toe-tapping and rhythmic gyrations? A profound statement.

  6. Noel, it's a question of design. One monk's eyes are lifted to heaven, and four others are intent on the manuscript. What's the unstated symbolism here? That CMAA is more about rehearsal than praise? More about research than singing? The logo is mindless backdrop for members, but there is a science to publicity and public relations. It's not just slapping clip art on a 11-by-8.5 piece of paper.

    And my question stands: have you already decided, or is it time to look at an alternative to a landscape format? Or have I uncovered a doubt in your mind about something you're already stuck with?

  7. Actually, the fellow looking heavenward is saying, "Dear Lord, help my brother monks to sing this chant in tune and, Dear Lord, while you're at it, please help the fellow on my left to follow his part and know what these square notes mean." Of course he would be saying that in Latin. I have just given a loose translation.
    : )

  8. Todd, it is just a fun little logo. A little piece of art slapped on a piece of paper. Or a bag. or a cap. If we have to rely on something as thin as a logo to "sell" the cause, then we're all in the wrong business. 🙂

  9. You know what? I'ma gonna take my usual contrarion picker of nits place in the corner…
    AOZ, I totally get the fun pic on a canvas bag thingy.
    OTOH, don't we have at our disposal so many creative people that could craft another kind of fun logo that represents the future of chant and sacred music, rather than that of antiquity.
    I think of those young ladies' blend, second maybe to Anonymous 4, following your, MA, MJB, Jenny's lead. I think of our ethnic diversity at all levels from all corners. I think of the mutual respect between our clergy and or laity and how all that culminates via chant. I think of the young lions and lionesses whose love for Mother Church is equalled only by their genius and invention, JMO, AB, KA et al. I think of how the chant literally wraps around the globe via the net (think Simon Peter) and not sequestered in a huge illuminated manuscript within a monastery chapel. I think of the joy on the faces of people at the end of colloquia and intensives.
    Maybe we should think about how to graphically represent stuff like that. Just saying…

  10. Hip to this Charles. I think I got this discussion off to a bad start by calling this a logo instead of a bag design. We don't have and probably don't need an official logo in any case.

  11. "One monk's eyes are lifted to heaven, and four others are intent on the manuscript. What's the unstated symbolism here? That CMAA is more about rehearsal than praise?"

    Those proportions seem about right.

    Any musician would know that every week it takes at LEAST four hours of rehearsal to properly render one of praise.

  12. Reminds me of the portrait of Ockeghem in Paris Bibliotheque Nationale MS fr.1537 (all the choir around the choirbook singing

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