'This Is My Child': come vote for the logo please

[RowanMumsnet]

Hello

Hopefully lots of you will be aware that we're gestating a campaign called 'This Is My Child' (you can see the background here.)

We've had two logos drawn up - and want you to tell us which you prefer.

Hearts or child? Post on the thread to let us know.

[sickofsocalledexperts]

I like the child but both look good, will go with consensus

[routineandrules]

I like the idea of the child one better but the pic of the child looks just silly

[RippingYarns]

you know what would make the child logo look better?

if there wasn't the gap between the bottom of the chin and the speech bubble, it looks as if it's been stuck on at the wrong angle

and i think the MN logo would look better offset to the left, with the face off set to the right

[Trigglesx]

Of course, ideally it should be an image of a goose triumphantly brandishing a carrot, whilst flipping the finger at those that make our dc's lives more of a struggle......but I guess that might be a little esoteric.***

Dear God, Jane MUST you post stuff that makes me spew my diet coke all over my screen?!! My poor laptop can't take it!!

On that note, I like the child, but it appears a bit cartoony and Pringles person-like. Although I don't want it to be serious either IYSWIM, as that implies that these children should be sad or pitied. Maybe just lose the glasses on the child pic???

[bialystockandbloom]

Child, definitely.

[Bluebirdonmyshoulder]

I don't think anyone is offended Eyes, at least I'm not.

I think we just want to get people thinking about ALL aspects of disability and not get bogged down with invisible ones at the expense of visible ones and vice versa.

The point is that if the general public really thought about disability and engaged their brain / empathy then they might consider that a child 'behaving badly' may actually have a hidden disability, and when faced with a child with an obvious visible sign of their condition they might not stare!

Invisible and visible disabilities BOTH cause problems for those of us living with them, albeit for different reasons.

[Thereonthestair]

Here here bluebird, I am also not offended, and can't see why anyone else would be, the issue of disability is so large though and mn covers such a range, visible and invisible.

[hazeyjane]

Yy to what Bluebird said.

I wasn't in any way offended, Eyes, and completely 'get' how frustrating it is that people think that they can look at a child and know whether they have sn or not, and it is certainly an issue that comes up on AIBU threads a lot.

[insanityscratching]

Definitely prefer the child one but agree with the comments about Mr Pringle and balloon head.
I've sent in a photo but it's not a cute and fluffy one because ds isn't cute and fluffy tbh he's dark, grumpy and and man sized but it shows him climbing which is something he is good at (must have been the practice he got as a tot on his many escape missions ) and I've just tagged it "if only all his obstacles in life were so easy"

[TapselteerieO]

I prefer the child too.

[hazeyjane]

[coff33pot]

Neither one really keen on but out of the two I would choose the child on if it was less out of cbeebies. Our children after all are not moon faces without noses :)

[alwaysfightingforsomething]

I would prefer the child picture although he has no nose or ears which looks a bit odd.
Seriously though, it would be good if one of the 'Charlies Angels' were brandishing a carrot.

[lougle]

I've sent you a few photos - if the email is too big, let me know and I'll split it.

I don't like either logo, sorry

[NoHaudinMaWheest]

Not keen on either, child is marginally better.
Like zzzzz's idea.

[NeoMaxiZoomDweebie]

Why don't you have a competition for MNrs to create one? The prize could just being the winner! And helping to spread the campaign. I don't really like either. The child one is like the Pringles man as someone else said and the other one is meh...the hearts seem like an afterthought.

[NeoMaxiZoomDweebie]

Also, just to be pedantic...the image of the child...he or she is not being included. They are outside the gathering of parents in the MN logo and outside the speech bubble...I know that it's because the child is speaking of their "own" Mumsnet....but it's not coming over.

[eggandcress]

Is the speech bubble supposed to be coming from a off-screen parent? If this is so then it work better visually if this were more obvious, with the direction of the speech bubble well away from the child and not wrapping too closely around the child's head.

[NeoMaxiZoomDweebie]

I though the bubble was the collective voice of parents on MN who have children with SN.

[coff33pot]

How abooooout a child figure with a bubble stating some things like.

I like football
I like playing
Would like friends
Would like to be understood

THEN a mothers top half with arms around child with a top bubble saying "This is my child"

The main idea of the logo is to reach out the campaign issue rather than a huge MN logo which to me stands out more than the important message?

[lougle]

The face reminds me of the bobinogs.

[NeoMaxiZoomDweebie]

I think that would be too busy Coff....I think they need one strong image with the wording they've already included. Logos need to sum up the meaning of what they represent in a simple way.

[NeoMaxiZoomDweebie]

Oh yes Lougle you're right!

[coff33pot]

That is true Neo about it possibly being too busy :) plus too much wording. Wondered if it was silhouette form as in the MN logo? so the two bubbles stood out?

When I look at these, in the heart one I just see Mumsnett and in the second I just see Mumsnett and then the moon face. It just doesnt jump out enough if you get what I am saying x