Horrible but reflects the new national mood for soulless identity and indistinctiveness.

Next PP is going to say that the Arlington County Board didn’t realize they were honoring brutal slave owner Henry Hall when they lauded the founding of Hall’s Hill

Anonymous wrote:The logo joins a long list of head scratching events in that Arlington is doing in the name of something or another.

My two recent favorites are re-naming Lee Highway after Republican Congressman John Langston. No one on the ACB or the re-naming committee realized that Langston was a Republican in heavily Democratic Arlington.

The second favorite is a citizen who brought up the 19th anniversary of Charles Monroe's death at the ACB meeting. None of the dullards on the board knew that Charles Monroe was chairman of the Arlington County Board and died while conducting a Board meeting. Nor did they know -- as the citizen brought up -- that he is honored every year by the County Board during Black History Month.

It is also interesting that the County wants to do away with Arlington House because of its connection to Robert E. Lee but they celebrate the progeny of the home's builder and an enslaved woman by calling their school administration building after the Syphax family.

That’s not about party, it’s about history. There were already a school and a community center named after Langston nearby.

The logo joins a long list of head scratching events in that Arlington is doing in the name of something or another.

My two recent favorites are re-naming Lee Highway after Republican Congressman John Langston. No one on the ACB or the re-naming committee realized that Langston was a Republican in heavily Democratic Arlington.

The second favorite is a citizen who brought up the 19th anniversary of Charles Monroe's death at the ACB meeting. None of the dullards on the board knew that Charles Monroe was chairman of the Arlington County Board and died while conducting a Board meeting. Nor did they know -- as the citizen brought up -- that he is honored every year by the County Board during Black History Month.

It is also interesting that the County wants to do away with Arlington House because of its connection to Robert E. Lee but they celebrate the progeny of the home's builder and an enslaved woman by calling their school administration building after the Syphax family.

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Anonymous wrote:

Arlington could cut itself off from DC and thrive. The same cannot be said for the other way around.

So if you put Arlington in Missouri, nowhere near DC, it would be the same thing it is now? Really?

DC would still be DC without Arlington. In fact it would be bigger if Arlington had never existed. You can’t say the opposite, at all.

It would instantly become the most important place in Missouri. DC relies on the WH and Congress. Arlington relies on Defense. Without the federal government, both are nothing.

LOL, if Arlington was relocated to Missouri it would become a ghost town as all the government contractors, lawyers, and trade associations shoved past each other to find office space back in DC.

If DC relocated to Missouri it would become the most important place in Missouri as all the businesses in the remaining DC suburbs flocked back to join it.

DC is the anchor of the region. OPs original statement is literally the exact opposite of reality.

Anonymous wrote:It was part of DC until 1847.

Celebrating the past.

It was part of DC until 1847.

Anonymous wrote:It works for a local government. You can't get overly creative or bold with logo design like this.

It looks like they're a Washington, D.C. sub-territory or something.

It works for a local government. You can't get overly creative or bold with logo design like this.

Anonymous wrote:

Arlington could cut itself off from DC and thrive. The same cannot be said for the other way around.

So if you put Arlington in Missouri, nowhere near DC, it would be the same thing it is now? Really?

DC would still be DC without Arlington. In fact it would be bigger if Arlington had never existed. You can’t say the opposite, at all.

It would instantly become the most important place in Missouri. DC relies on the WH and Congress. Arlington relies on Defense. Without the federal government, both are nothing.

Anonymous wrote:Looks like the old Windows flag logo.

Yes!

Anonymous wrote:You've all missed the point: the redesign was required to remove the image of Arlington House, which is being cancelled because of its association with plantation slavery.

Next stop: the county's name must be changed...

Not just slavery, but Robert E Lee. Still though, not sure what the problem was.

You've all missed the point: the redesign was required to remove the image of Arlington House, which is being cancelled because of its association with plantation slavery.

Next stop: the county's name must be changed...

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Anonymous wrote:Most organizations seem compelled to go through exercises like this that seem to exist only to consume staff time, money and focus. How many staff hours went into the meetings and memos and paperwork that went into this design? How much did they pay the design company and consultant? How much will it cost to change over all the documents, websites, apps, building signage and outdoor signs to incorporate the new logo?

And, finally, if county employees hadn't been researching/reading/meeting/implementing about the logo, does the county have any problems that they could have been working on?

This logo is what sub-optimal organizations choose to spend their resources ("our resources" in this case) on.

How much time did you spend posting about this, and are there any other things you could have more usefully spent your time doing?

A whole lot less time and treasure than the county wasted on this logo refresh.

Looks like the old Windows flag logo.