{"id":4521,"date":"2014-01-22T15:19:24","date_gmt":"2014-01-22T15:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=4521"},"modified":"2014-01-22T15:19:24","modified_gmt":"2014-01-22T15:19:24","slug":"new-city-logo-comes-from-where-right-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=4521","title":{"rendered":"New city logo comes from … where? … right here"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Tyler Mitchell is a talented artist who happens to live in Amarillo and, as of today, is now the acclaimed designer of City Hall’s official new logo.<\/p>\n

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The City Council unveiled the identity of the logo’s designer on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

It shouldn’t have been a big deal, but it is.<\/p>\n

You see, the city stubbed its toe more than a few times to get to this point. <\/p>\n

It hired a local marketing firm to design the logo; the firm produced a design; the city rejected it; the city then accepted a design submitted by a city staffer; one problem emerged; the design was virtually identical to a logo already in use, by a company based in the United Arab Emirates<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The company said “no can do” on the logo. The city apologized for the mistake. It opened the competition up to locals. The newspaper got involved. <\/p>\n

And then — presto! — Tyler Mitchell, a husband to Arrika and the father of two young sons emerged as the winning designer.<\/p>\n

Where was he when this malarkey began?<\/p>\n

I trust the city has learned a valuable lesson from this embarrassment.<\/p>\n

My hunch is that the laughter is dying down and is being replaced by cheers … for Tyler Mitchell.<\/p>\n\n

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Tyler Mitchell is a talented artist who happens to live in Amarillo and, as of today, is now the acclaimed designer of City Hall’s official new logo. http:\/\/amarillo.com\/news\/local-news\/2014-01-21\/beilue-citys-new-logo-going-down-history#comment-190624 The City Council unveiled the identity of the logo’s designer on Tuesday. It shouldn’t have been a big deal, but it is. You see, the city stubbed … Continue reading New city logo comes from … where? … right here<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[290,318],"class_list":["post-4521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-amarillo-city-hall","tag-amarillo-logo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}