<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I would love to see an incorporation of the historic manufacturing identity into the visual representation of what we are working on in the Hive. I think hacking is at the core of the Lehigh Valley's economic diversity and this group in part represents the continuation of that tradition.<br><div> <div style="color:00226B"><h1 style="font-size:12px">Matthew Tuerk</h1> <p style="font-size:10px">Assistant Director<br> Allentown Economic Development Corporation<br> (610) 435-8890 (w)<br> (610) 653-3064 (c)<br> <a style="text-decoration:none; color:00226b" href="mailto:mtuerk@allentownedc.com">mtuerk@allentownedc.com</a></p> <p style="font-size:10px"><a style="color:6B4A00" href="http://allentowngoodnews.blogspot.com">Allentown Good News Blog</a><br> <a style="color:6B4A00" href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Allentown-Economic-Development-Corporation/212098131917">Find us on Facebook</a><br> <a style="color:6B4A00" href="http://twitter.com/allentownedc">Follow us on Twitter</a><br></p> <em style="font-size:8px">CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE The information in this email may be confidential and/or privileged. This email is intended to be reviewed by only the individual or organization named above. If you are not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination or copying of this email and its attachments, if any, or the information contained herein is prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please immediately notify the sender by return email and delete this email from your system.</em></div> </div><br><div><div>On Nov 23, 2010, at 7:31 PM, Rob wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Understand .... So I think the people should organize under MakeLehighValley ..... but still retain the Hive4A aspect somehow ... so we could always use the tag line "MakeLehighValley@Hive4A" ....<br><br>I like the graphic with the nostalgic industrial feel ..... I think that works well .... each hackerspace has it's own identity ... would be nice if we could pay homage to Allentown's heyday as a center of manufacturing .... <br> <br>--> Rob<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 7:58 PM, Matthew Tuerk <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mtuerk@allentownedc.com">mtuerk@allentownedc.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <div style="word-wrap: break-word;">A few observations:<div>I like the idea of retaining "make" for the same reason that Joe mentions.</div><div><br></div><div>AEDC intended for Hive 4A to be a descriptor for that entire end of the building, covering the hackerspace, the co-work space, and the lecture/education space. If we want to adopt Hive 4A as a title for the group, we would need to append some sort of differentiator to make it clear that we are the people and not the space. </div> <div><br></div><div>As far as a visual identity, the group of high school kids that did the initial research on this project submitted the attached jpeg as a proposed logo. It needs a lot of help, but it is a starting point. Alternatively, you can see the work of a firm with whom I work at the following URL: <a href="http://allentownedc.com/urbanmade.html" target="_blank">http://allentownedc.com/urbanmade.html</a><br> <div> <div style=""><h1 style="font-size: 12px;">Matthew Tuerk</h1><p style="font-size: 10px;">Assistant Director<br> Allentown Economic Development Corporation<br> (610) 435-8890 (w)<br> (610) 653-3064 (c)<br> <a style="text-decoration: none;" href="mailto:mtuerk@allentownedc.com" target="_blank">mtuerk@allentownedc.com</a></p><p style="font-size: 10px;"><a style="" href="http://allentowngoodnews.blogspot.com" target="_blank">Allentown Good News Blog</a><br> <a style="" href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Allentown-Economic-Development-Corporation/212098131917" target="_blank">Find us on Facebook</a><br> <a style="" href="http://twitter.com/allentownedc" target="_blank">Follow us on Twitter</a><br></p> <i style="font-size: 8px;">CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE The information in this email may be confidential and/or privileged. 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I needed to get an explanation about what it meant. Whereas I understood the terms "Make" and "Maker", in connection to the articles I have seen about maker fairs. They have a lot of existing awareness, so there may be a benefit to keeping at least that portion of the name.<br> <br>Joe Dunfee <a href="mailto:joe@dunfee.com" target="_blank">joe@dunfee.com</a><br>Gordonville, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. <br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Makelehighvalley mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Makelehighvalley@makelehighvalley.com" target="_blank">Makelehighvalley@makelehighvalley.com</a><br> <a href="http://makelehighvalley.com/mailman/listinfo/makelehighvalley_makelehighvalley.com" target="_blank">http://makelehighvalley.com/mailman/listinfo/makelehighvalley_makelehighvalley.com</a><br><br></div></blockquote> </div><img src="" height="630" width="815"></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br> Makelehighvalley mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:Makelehighvalley@makelehighvalley.com">Makelehighvalley@makelehighvalley.com</a><br> <a href="http://makelehighvalley.com/mailman/listinfo/makelehighvalley_makelehighvalley.com" target="_blank">http://makelehighvalley.com/mailman/listinfo/makelehighvalley_makelehighvalley.com</a><br> <br></blockquote></div><br></blockquote></div><br></body></html>