[tuszit]

The vote was on the 8th, right? What were the results?

[lh88gFzI]

I heard old school won.

Tim

[Fvmfrctt]

The mengane thing is popular with many clubs. I'm still bitter about our club logo being ripped off

[trilochana.nejman]

santa barbara isnt considered socal?

[goctorsurger]

I like the stylistic one...it looks sharp!

It isobviously inspired by the men grille.

Personally, I'd think it would look cool as a "kamon" on the doh too.

The traditional one is too "busy" looking, IMHO.

The new one would make a good patch, embroidery, etc.

I like it.

[ENCOSEARRALIA]

my favorite Hachidan Sensei..

HA!! I saw him at the kata seminar!!

Tim

[MilenaJaf]

Logo No. 2 seems to be very similar to this one:

http://www.kendoka-kassel.de/start.php

The logo is on the right hand side. I like the dynamics of it and I prefer a logo that is simple on not overloaded with information.

Cheers,
dotnet

it sure does, hmmmm makes me wonder now

[Julik19]

I like the stylistic one...it looks sharp!

It isobviously inspired by the men grille.

Personally, I'd think it would look cool as a "kamon" on the doh too.

The traditional one is too "busy" looking, IMHO.

The new one would make a good patch, embroidery, etc.

I like it.

well it was on the sleeves of the So Cal team members, embroidered , and since the new logo was used in their fund raising, t-shirts, jackets, etc..many people bought them to show support for the Team, since they were worn at the nationals, many people there liked the logo, asked where they could purchase, or trade for, many here would like to see the new logo used for nationals teams, so the argument continues, but it should be finalized at the next board meeting..

[Controller]

Somehow I thought the first logo is too feminin. Trying to tell too much. Second one doesn't mean anything about SC except it only represent Kendo. I don't like either of them. sorry, I may be picky...

The design was made by one of the SCKF womens team members. Though it is a nice design to me, I really like a logo that truly represents what SCKF is all about. The poppy, the (city hall?) tower, etc are some of the things that seem to really tell people what represents So cal the best. Just like you'd find the GG bridge, the koit tower, the napa vineyards, the transamerica tower, silicon valley, etc for norcal.

Tim

[anatmob]

Poll bump, please keep posting

[unsamiSlini]

pfffttt... whatever. socal is LA/SD/SB. pretty much the whole megapolitan area around LA. still represented by LA, the biggest city.

this is from a guy who came from norcal and originally from the east coast.

Well norcal, i thought was everything above Sac down to Salinas.. Fresno, Bakersfield, etc is CC and LA/SB/SD is Socal. pretty much the stuff past the mountains.

The SCKF (IIRC) was founded mainly by Mori sensei and Norcal was founded mainly by Hazard sensei (though I heard Sakano sensei from the pacific northwest region came down to help form it as well).

Tim

[mikelangr]

Logo No. 2 seems to be very similar to this one:

http://www.kendoka-kassel.de/start.php

The logo is on the right hand side. I like the dynamics of it and I prefer a logo that is simple on not overloaded with information.

Cheers,
dotnet

Scooby says, Rut ro!

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[shinesw]

The Southern California Kendo Federation is contemplating a logo change (the vote has apparently been deferred again). Post up your choice after checking out the ones under consideration here.

I have labeled them from left to right (1) and (2).

[xyupi]

pfffttt... whatever. socal is LA/SD/SB. pretty much the whole megapolitan area around LA. still represented by LA, the biggest city.

this is from a guy who came from norcal and originally from the east coast.

[Xutrsavf]

santa barbara isnt considered socal?

I lived in Santa Barbara for 5 years....they definately do not think they are part of SoCal.....they call it Centeral Coast. Everything from Big Sur to Oxnard!

[Aleenkagirlla]

Somehow I thought the first logo is too feminin. Trying to tell too much. Second one doesn't mean anything about SC except it only represent Kendo. I don't like either of them. sorry, I may be picky...

I also agree with Rainmaker. I think the first logo is a little too busy. I like the simplicity of the second one, but I think it needs something more to identify itself as a SoCal logo.

[assonomaf]

santa barbara isnt considered socal?

they are as in federation, not by local ..

[DeronBoltonRen]

The design was made by one of the SCKF womens team members. Though it is a nice design to me, I really like a logo that truly represents what SCKF is all about. The poppy, the (city hall?) tower, etc are some of the things that seem to really tell people what represents So cal the best. Just like you'd find the GG bridge, the koit tower, the napa vineyards, the transamerica tower, silicon valley, etc for norcal.

Tim

Seems there was some different info about the designer of the logo at the SCKF meeting last saturday, Her name wasn't brought up as part of the designing,

The old logo is cool, but doesn't represent what So Cal kendo is about anymore, Now that there are 22 dojo's, from Santa Barbara to San Diego, and Diamond Bar to the East, It would have to delete the City Hall part , I'm sure the other cities say we aren't So Cal,

The new one should be for be for Nationals, Worlds Teams, but the same thing would apply, what do you do if a kenshi from say Santa Barbara makes the Team ? He's not from So Cal, so what do you do ?

[QbCp7LaZ]

Obviously my opinion does not matter because I live way up here in Bellevue but my input would be the traditional one. The stylistic one makes it look too mainstream I guess.

[glagoliska]

Its 4 nike swooshes slammed together.

They are going to get sued