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Students design logo for city campaign
Published October 31, 2009
Albertville High School students in multimedia design classes recently worked to create a logo for the city’s Pride in Property campaign.
The original idea was for the city to pick one logo to use to market the campaign, but they ended up choosing six different logos to be used in different ways.
“The kids, what they put together for us, was amazing,” Mayor Lindsey Lyons said. “We really had a tough time, as we went through all of the graphics they had done, to actually choose the winners.
“There were quite a number that were very impressive.”
Lyons said the logos should start appearing around the city in mid-December, but if things go well they could start popping up earlier.
“When we roll out with it, we want to have everything in motion,” Lyons said.
The city is going ask local businesses, with digital billboards, to help kick-start the campaign by displaying some public service announcements using the logos.
The logos will be used for the main Pride in Property logo, a children’s outreach campaign, the Albertville-Boaz Recycling Center, billboards, T-shirts, and there are plans to even have a mascot.
In all, there were about eight classes working on the project, and the students either worked individually or with a partner.
“It was a friendly competition, but it was definitely a competition,” Marsha Mitchell, one of the multimedia design teachers at AHS, said.
The students who won the “friendly competition” were Amber Lang and Hope Allen, who designed the main Pride in Property logo; Courtney Hooper, the Albertville-Boaz Recycling center logo; Jacob Barkley and Blain Stracener, T-shirts and billboards; Omar Mendoza, children’s outreach logo; and Will Estes, who came up with the mascot.
Thomas Bjelbo Thomsen served as the resident Photoshop expert.
“It’s just an invaluable opportunity for the students,” Mitchell said. “It provides them with the real-life-hands-on experience that they need, because this means more to them.”
The students said they were happy to be a part of the project, and they are looking forward to upcoming opportunities.
“I’m just grateful they took that opportunity to be a part of something that’s going to be great for the city,” Lyons said.
As of right now the mascot doesn’t have a name, but there should be another contest to solve that problem.
“I think there is a lot of excitement generated right now,” Lyons said. “And, I feel like the program is going to be a major step forward in producing needed results for the city.”
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