Text and Language Lab introduces its new logo
The Text and Language Research Group, led by Prof. Michaela Mahlberg, has just revealed its newly designed in-house logo. The logo was created to reflect the group’s identity within the digital humanities and to help communicate who they are, both within academic circles and in the public sphere.
The design is simple and modern, featuring two distinctive open rectangles with an abstract quality that allows for multiple impressions and interpretations. Do they represent pages, books, or linguistic corpora? Or perhaps open doors and windows, symbolising the way the group conducts its research and collaborations? For some, they even evoke the well-known brackets commonly used in mathematics and computer science, signifying a connection to computational methods, says Ismail Barakat, the group’s research communication producer. He adds that the rectangles are given a sense of perspective to create depth and subtlety, setting the stage for the title of the research lab, Text and Language. The text appears in blue on a light background and in white on a dark background. The blue is derived from the university’s official colour, while the reddish tone of the rectangles creates a more distinctive contrast and echoes the red used in the CliC logo as well.
Watch the 1-minute reveal film.