This is a Call for Logo designs for Psycoloquy, a refereed electronic
journal (ISSN 1055-0143) sponsored by the American Psychological
Association and currently estimated to reach a readership of 60,000 via
Listserv and Usenet and still more readers and browsers via the Web at
its various mirror sites in the US, UK, and continental Europe.
Psycoloquy is available to all for free, thanks to an APA subsidy,
but the budget is tight and no funds are available to pay for the design
of a logo, hence permanent credit in Psycoloquy's masthead is the only
reward we can offer to the designer of the logo that is ultimately
selected.
The logo should be in the form of a gif or jpeg file (preferably), but
a postscript file or scannable hard copy can also be used.
Suggested themes for the logo are these:
The name "Psycoloquy" is meant to suggest "Psychology" and
"Colloquium."
Psycoloquy is an interdisciplinary journal of Open Peer Commentary in
the biobehavioral and cognitive sciences, including Psychology,
Neuroscience, Computer Science (AI, Vision, Speech, Robotics),
Behavioral and Evolutionary Biology, Linguistics and Philosophy.
Open Peer Commentary in electronic form has also been dubbed "Scholarly
Skywriting," so something suggestive of the kind of smoke trail a plane
leaves in the sky might be a possible image -- but it will no doubt be
challenging to make this look scholarly and serious, rather than
cartoonish.
The fields that contribute also suggest an image, one that incorporates
brain, behavior, biology/evolution, computer and communication:
A generic primate's head poised as if speaking, with see-through
computer/neural-net-like innards is a possible image.
There is of course always some variant of the old, overused Greek "psi"
symbol for psychology.
Or perhaps these candidate images and themes will suggest something
entirely original to you.
Please send your candidate logo designs to the following address,
indicating that you would allow Psycoloquy to use it if it were
selected, in exchange for a permanent credit-line stating who designed it.
Please look at Psycoloquy's Web sites for more of an idea of its form
and content.
Looking forward to seeing your designs.
Stevan Harnad, Editor
PSYCOLOQUY (sci.psychology.journals.psycoloquy)
Sponsored by the American Psychological Association
Department of Psychology
University of Southampton
Highfield, Southampton
SO17 1BJ UNITED KINGDOM
psyc(a)pucc.princeton.edu
phone: +44 1703 594-583
fax: +44 1703 593-281
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