It remains one of the few places you can see the Warwick Crest, as "should no longer be part of the University’s logo or used alongside the text 'The University of Warwick'." It fell out of favour while I was there in favour of a more modern swooshy one. Bleugh. This is one of my pet peeves. The University should know better than to call it a 'crest' - it's a coat of arms (the crest is just the bit right at the top). But also, and more irritatingly, is the deprecation of heraldry in favour of expensive, transitory logos such as that used by the Conference Office (and which was amusingly summarised as "two fat men shouting at each other" by the esteemed Hugh Anchor). I don't think the Warwick arms are a particularly well-designed example, being rather too busy for my liking, but I do think they carry overtones of academic tradition and solidity that are missing from the modern swooshy logo (which, by the way, looks to me like it was ripped off from York's, and thus carries overtones of plagiarism and bandwagon-jumping).
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Date: 2008-04-07 12:41 pm (UTC)This is one of my pet peeves. The University should know better than to call it a 'crest' - it's a coat of arms (the crest is just the bit right at the top). But also, and more irritatingly, is the deprecation of heraldry in favour of expensive, transitory logos such as that used by the Conference Office (and which was amusingly summarised as "two fat men shouting at each other" by the esteemed Hugh Anchor). I don't think the Warwick arms are a particularly well-designed example, being rather too busy for my liking, but I do think they carry overtones of academic tradition and solidity that are missing from the modern swooshy logo (which, by the way, looks to me like it was ripped off from York's, and thus carries overtones of plagiarism and bandwagon-jumping).