My wife and I have started painting our Christmas cards. I’m a big fan of Owen Pomery’s style, it kind of reminds me of Hergé. I copied this from Victory Point

I’m no lover of the Olympics but the branding behind them fascinates me (see 99pi Mexico 68). This morning I stumbled across some hate for Utah 2034 and all I could do is shake my head; to be an Olympic Logo designer, what a thankless job in it’s time. I think the general trajectory of an Olympic logo is this:

1. Unveiling: everyone hates it and loudly proclaims this
2. Lead up to the games: through repeated exposure the image is rehabilitated in people’s minds
3. Immediately following the games: people mostly have positive associations with it
4. Legacy: this is where the timeless/iconic nature of the logo is actually proved. Will people remember it in 30 years? 50 years?

In general people hate new logos, anytime a company changes their logo there is going to be backlash which is why, it’s best to just keep moving forward and ignore the chatter for a few months. The Olympics are unique because the logo (and associated iconography) for each games is both a “brand new” logo but it’s also an iteration or a “redesign” of all previous logos. Of course, Utah is not Vancouver, or Turin but when people see this logo their mind is going to think of those logos and do, likely, the same thing it would for a corporate rebrand.

Personally, I think Utah 2034 is dope. Although, I might have skewed something in the A or H to avoid the 4 leaf clover look they’ve got going on.

My daughter is going to a birthday party today, somehow this means making and writing the card falls on me.

First snow

I’ve been switching between Ghostty and iTerm a lot, mostly to take advantage of iTerm’s scroll back search but today it seemed appropriate to use Ghostty!

I never posted an update… both chrysalises hatched and began their journey mid-September. One we saw fly via our camer set up and the other we were lucky enough to see in person!

Dear Tidal… Fix this! This is not the first time/artist I have seen random albums for; I can generally parse the noise if I know the artist well or they haven’t dropped an album in years but I shouldn’t have to!

My daughter found two monarch caterpillars on our milkweed plants which has kicked off an amazing journey.

Its wild how much they eat and also how fast they grow.

From the morning walk.

Interesting things I passed on the way to the library with my daughter here in Guelph.