Thursday, February 23, 2012
Occupy
Occupy Movement Dumps Clenched Fist for New Logo to Represent the 99 Percent
Posted
By Erin Sherbert
on Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 4:00 PM
Earlier this month, we told readers about
Occupy's imminent makeover; it's moving away from the ubiquitous clenched-fist emblem, and participants are coming up with a more sophisticated(?) logo to reflect the 99 percent.
After the newly formed Occupy.com -- a group working to support the Occupy Movement through media -- opened it up to designers across the nation, the anti-big bank movement has finally selected the winning design. Here it is:
What do you think? Does this accurately represent you as an angry, bitter, foreclosed-upon person?
Occupy.com sifted through more than 1,500 entries, which were submitted through 99designs.com, before selecting the winner. "The creative energy of the contest naturally went towards the circle -- It's iconic, it's endlessly reproducible, it's infinitely inviting and inclusive and it symbolizes the connectedness of all of us," occupier David Sauvage wrote in an e-mail to SF Weekly.
Naturally, the lucky designer is getting criticism from some sore losers; at least one left a comment online, calling the chosen design a "very expensive CIRCLE."
Maybe. But that circle won the designer a $1,000 award, and that's a nice chunk of change for a 99 percenter!
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Tags: 99 percenter, 99designs, clenched fist, expensive circle, Occupy Movement, Occupy.com, Image
About The Author
Erin Sherbert
Bio:
Erin Sherbert was the Online News Editor for SF Weekly from 2010 to 2015. She's a Texas native and has a closet full of cowboy boots to prove it.
