Council Considers Ditching the Wrenches for the Mum

This entry was posted on Monday, March 15th, 2010

For years many Tipp City residents have been unable to understand or describe the City Logo. The idea that the logo illustrated our City Motto “Our image is growing” was interesting, as it more looked like a series of bent pipes or different sizes of Allen wrenches.

During this evening’s City Council study session Council decided to add a resolution to change the City logo from the “Wrenches” to the Mum.

The new logo was approved for use on our new city water towers, and the City Manager Jon Crusey asked Council this evening if Council would consider using it across all City materials.

A common theme expressed from several members of Council would be that the City not go out and spend money to replace everything with the new logo. The City Manager assured Council that they will deplete all existing letterhead, business cards and other items before buying anything with the new logo. He also mentioned to Council that with consideration Council would want to choose a date in the future to swap out the logos on all City vehicles as we would not want to have the old logos persist on vehicles for the next 10-12 years along with new vehicles with the new logos.

Council then requested that TippNews.com find out from YOU our residents what you thought of the new logo. Do you like it? What don’t you like? Please leave your comments here, our City Council members and City Manager will be reading these posts.. And for kicks I have added a poll to see what you think…

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mikemcfarland

It is about time Tipp woke up and created a logo that represents what Tipp is best known for —- the MUM.
John Staup

As a former resident of Tipp (I grew up in Tipp and graduated from THS), I definitely prefer the new logo to that of the current one. I agree, the current logo looks like a set of Allen wrenches or bent pipes.I get the symbolism with the "t" shapes and the idea of "growth" being suggested, but it lacks something. It's rather sterile looking and "industrial" in its feel. It lacks warmth and vitality.The background color (yellow-gold) is rather bland and there is little contrast between the yellow-gold background and the white symbols and font used to spell out the name. Moreover, the font is difficult to read and the logo tends to blend together into an unimaginative and quite forgettable image.The new logo, on the other hand, is bright and colorful. The font used to spell the city's name is distinctive and readable. The colorful red mum petals are clean and vibrant. It projects an image that suggests that the community is alive and vibrant.Occasionally, it helps to spruce-up your imagine and the new logo definitely does that.
John Staup

As a former resident of Tipp (I grew up in Tipp and graduated from THS), I definitely prefer the new logo to that of the current one. I agree, the current logo looks like a set of Allen wrenches or bent pipes.I get the symbolism with the "t" shapes and the idea of "growth" being suggested, but it lacks something. It's rather sterile looking and "industrial" in its feel. It lacks warmth and vitality.The background color (yellow-gold) is rather bland and there is little contrast between the yellow-gold background and the white symbols and font used to spell out the name. Moreover, the font is difficult to read and the logo tends to blend together into an unimaginative and quite forgettable image.The new logo, on the other hand, is bright and colorful. The font used to spell the city's name is distinctive and readable. The colorful red mum petals are clean and vibrant. It projects an image that suggests that the community is alive and vibrant.Occasionally, it helps to spruce-up your imagine and the new logo definitely does that.

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