I feel a bit stupid now. After reviewing my last post about my logo, I decided to check out RIT’s website since I had mentioned it there. The first thing I noticed on their site is that my old design professor, R. Roger Remington was just inducted into the Art Director’s Hall of Fame. Apparently that is the Graphic Design equivalent of the Nobel prize.

The reason I mention this (other than out of reverence for my former instructor) is because the class that I first doodled my logo (get your mind out of the gutter) was a class taught by Remington. It was an information design class. The class was broken into studio sessions and lecture sessions. The class where I first “conceptualized” the logo was one of the lecture sessions.

Don’t get me wrong. Roger Remington is an excellent teacher. I was probably just zoning out that day. By no means do I mean any disrespect to him. Just to give you an idea, Remington joins an elite group of designers with his recent induction, including the likes of Walt Disney, Andy Warhol, Saul Bass and Paul Rand. How cool is it that one of my teachers is now grouped with those dudes?!

Congrats Roger!

Some of you may wonder about my logo. I wonder about it too.

Ya know how you draw and scribble when you are on the phone or in a meeting, or anywhere else you’d rather not be? You don’t scribble during those times? Well I do and I started drawing this in late 2001 while I was a senior at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). I would estimate that I have scribbled this bad boy at least 1,000 times over the years. When it came time to decide on a personal mark I couldn’t think of anything better than this. I really need to come up with a name for it though. It’s similar to a Yin Yang (sp?) so maybe the Pin Pang would work (you know, play of the P from Palmateer).

Anyway, when some of my coworkers saw it, they said “Oh, I get it. It’s a P and a D for palmateerDesign”, so I guess that works to. If any of you have any thoughts as to what I should call the thing, like Nike’s Swoosh for example, drop me a line in the comments below. I’m always open to suggestion.

There you have it. That’s my logo. No deep thought process involved in the creation of it. Just the result of pure boredom while I was sitting in a random lecture in college.