saracrownstar

 United States

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Joined: Oct 12, 2015

Posted On: Nov 12, 2015

I will have HUC give me their final thoughts in the morning. They are on East Coast time. Their offices close at 3 pm EST, so we should make the decision of how to rank before then. There are a lot of great ideas up. I tried to put them all close to each other so we could compare the differences. I apologize I got the name of the fellowship wrong. My last note said the correct name -- and our final choices do need to have HUC - JIR. Thank you, Sara

saracrownstar

 United States

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Joined: Oct 12, 2015

Posted On: Nov 12, 2015

I will have HUC give me their final thoughts in the morning. They are on East Coast time. Their offices close at 3 pm EST, so we should make the decision of how to rank before then. There are a lot of great ideas up. I tried to put them all close to each other so we could compare the differences. I apologize I got the name of the fellowship wrong. My last note said the correct name -- and our final choices do need to have HUC - JIR. Thank you, Sara

saracrownstar

 United States

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Joined: Oct 12, 2015

Posted On: Nov 12, 2015

I'm told the correct name of the program is:
The Star Cantorial Fellows Program

Can those I have ranked flip the language to say the correct name?
Thank you

saracrownstar

 United States

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Joined: Oct 12, 2015

Posted On: Nov 10, 2015

One last idea:

Combining music with text. That could be:
1) Something musical with a book
2) Something musical with a Torah
If you look at the HUC - JIR logo, you will see it has Torah's in it.
Sara

saracrownstar

 United States

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Joined: Oct 12, 2015

Posted On: Nov 09, 2015

Can everyone please note:
The institution is HUC-JIR
(Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion

So - please figure out where those letters graphically fit in the best.
Thanks

saracrownstar

 United States

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Joined: Oct 12, 2015

Posted On: Nov 09, 2015

Hello everyone,
We are getting close. We have some great concepts. I have contacted the designers that are left privately with our thoughts. We don't have anymore general thoughts for the group. Thank you once again for everyone's time. You are all incredibly talented. This is going to be a tough decision!

btw - HUC professionals are on east coast time and will leave by 3 pm on Friday. Final decisions will be made before they go home for the weekend.

Sara

saracrownstar

 United States

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Joined: Oct 12, 2015

Posted On: Nov 08, 2015

As we look at these, we realized Israeli colors are blue and white. You may want references to a jewish star to be blue and white.
This is something to keep in mind as you are deciding where/how to balance the green/blue and white.

Thank you

saracrownstar

 United States

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Joined: Oct 12, 2015

Posted On: Nov 08, 2015

We have given specific comments today to many of the artists. We looked at all the entries each artist made, and selected one entry for them to work with. We gave them our thoughts as to how to adapt/change that entry.

If you were not one of those artists, you can look at what we've ranked, but please keep in mind, what we've ranked will for many of the submissions change based on our comments.

Thank you so much again for your time, energy and creative talent. We clearly have a wealth of talent trying to help us.

Have a good rest of your weekend.

Best,
Sara

saracrownstar

 United States

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Joined: Oct 12, 2015

Posted On: Nov 07, 2015

Hello everyone:
We hope you are having a good weekend. We have talked as a team and ranked. Please note, we have given feedback on just about every single ranked logo to the artist who submitted it. So, these logos are not quite where we'd like them to be. We may have asked the artist to:

simplify
play with colors
change symbols
change fonts

It may take until the next round for you to get a better idea of what we are looking for. Thank you for all your time and creative talent. We will give more general feedback when we see some that we feel will be helpful.

Than you,
Sara

saracrownstar

 United States

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Joined: Oct 12, 2015

Posted On: Nov 05, 2015

Hello everyone: We hope the below notes will help you understand who this logo is for:

Main points for today:
A) Please look at this webpage:http://huc.edu/academics/become-cantor/cantorial-ordination/star-fellows-program. The winning logo will be on this webpage.
B) Cantors are clergy who sing at Jewish religious services. So, please add a musical reference/icon/symbol to your logo. We want to see how those look.

__________
1) Feel free to peruse the HUC website to get an idea of what the institution does. It trains reformed rabbis, cantors, educators and professionals going into the not for profit sector.

2) The reason the light bulb idea is out there is because these "star" students are selected after a rigorous application process to be part of a 3 year leadership program that will open their world to new ideas. It is not required that you use a light bulb. It was an idea.

3) We are not wedded to any particular symbols or concepts: Other ideas are:
a) Temples often have stained glass windows -- a take on that could be beautiful.
b) A temple "houses" students, faith, ideas, education, future leaders, spirituality: Maybe there could be a play on the H as a house for the cantors. please disregard this idea if it gets too complicated.

We like simplicity The current HUC logo is a very busy logo. We are trying to create a really tasteful, simple logo.

There is a Tisch Fellows Program that this program piggy backs. The Tisch Fellows are rabbinical students. The Star Fellows are Cantorial students. The students are both in the program together, but there is a separate selection process for each.

Here is the link to the Tisch Fellows should that help you understand what these fellows do in their program.
http://huc.edu/news/2007/11/01/bonnie-daniel-tisch-fellows-program-presents-rabbi-larry-hoffman-phd

saracrownstar

 United States

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Joined: Oct 12, 2015

Posted On: Nov 05, 2015

I would like it if designers could try to mimic the style of this Georgetown logo. http://imgur.com/BobDeYe

1. replace gtown with "HUC - JIR"
2. Replace biz skills with "Star Fellows Cantorial program"
3. add the icon of your design into the middle

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Posted On: Oct 12, 2015

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