Psycoloquy Logo: Call for Designs

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 -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://cogsci.soton.ac.uk/psyc http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/psyc.html gopher://gopher.princeton.edu:70/11/.libraries/.pujournals ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/Psycoloquy ftp://cogsci.soton.ac.uk/pub/harnad/Psycoloquy news:sci.psychology.journals.psycoloquy