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ithacaartist · 04-01-2011, 03:24 PM

Oops, guess I slipped up with PG-13 wording...Please change it to "buns" if possible, and if this is mild enough.
The piggy is, believe it or not, my business logo. When I was a kid, my older half brother Bill, whom I love dearly, would indulge me just about every time I would ask him to draw me a pig. He had a particular style, and after he had let me beg long enough, he'd put together a series of circles, swoops, and x's in about two seconds that looked like a pig. Usually, he'd knit the eyebrows into a V so the pig looked rather stern and cross (perhaps the expression of our admin. when encountering my previous 3-letter word).
In 1985, I started my own business as a subcontractor to construct audio-kinetic sculpture designed by George Rhoads, and I was scratching my head over what to use as a logo. Somewhere along the line, people started turning my last name, Parker, into "Porker"--perhaps ironically so, because at 6' and 170 # I am certainly not a porker! All were ready to advise and suggest what my logo should be; one had mentioned that the pig was the Chinese symbol for good luck in business.
Well, that's how it was decided. I called my brother and asked him for some samples of the pig he used to draw, and he sent me 2 pages full, including the never-before-rendered "side pig". Darned if no individual pig among the two pages worth matched my vision/memory of what I wanted, so I found a head, body and feet belonging to different ones, physically cut, pasted, reduced, expanded all the components until I was satisfied. I had the result incorporated into my letterhead and business cards, even estimate forms. I kept that piggy for 15 years until, in 2000, my brother Bill sent me a graphic from his Schenectady paper advertizing a place called the "Flat Road Diner" and said in his letter, a reference to this, that it should be my new logo. Changing my logo had not been on my mind at all, but I thlught to myself, "Well, maybe Bill is right." After scanning and making the graphic "mine" buy changing the tail to a delightful curl, I substituted the new piggy for the old on my next batch of business papers and cards--and the website, too.
Apologies for stepping over the verbal line, no harm intended, nor with my logo. I don't like being yelled at in red, so I assure you this will never happen again.
Thanks, Ed and Norm, that's what I was after.

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04-01-2011, 03:24 PM	#1
ithacaartist Twice a Lifer Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Atop the highest hill in Schuyler County NY Posts: 3,401 Thanks: 7,560 Thanked 2,643 Times in 1,393 Posts	Oops, guess I slipped up with PG-13 wording...Please change it to "buns" if possible, and if this is mild enough. The piggy is, believe it or not, my business logo. When I was a kid, my older half brother Bill, whom I love dearly, would indulge me just about every time I would ask him to draw me a pig. He had a particular style, and after he had let me beg long enough, he'd put together a series of circles, swoops, and x's in about two seconds that looked like a pig. Usually, he'd knit the eyebrows into a V so the pig looked rather stern and cross (perhaps the expression of our admin. when encountering my previous 3-letter word). In 1985, I started my own business as a subcontractor to construct audio-kinetic sculpture designed by George Rhoads, and I was scratching my head over what to use as a logo. Somewhere along the line, people started turning my last name, Parker, into "Porker"--perhaps ironically so, because at 6' and 170 # I am certainly not a porker! All were ready to advise and suggest what my logo should be; one had mentioned that the pig was the Chinese symbol for good luck in business. Well, that's how it was decided. I called my brother and asked him for some samples of the pig he used to draw, and he sent me 2 pages full, including the never-before-rendered "side pig". Darned if no individual pig among the two pages worth matched my vision/memory of what I wanted, so I found a head, body and feet belonging to different ones, physically cut, pasted, reduced, expanded all the components until I was satisfied. I had the result incorporated into my letterhead and business cards, even estimate forms. I kept that piggy for 15 years until, in 2000, my brother Bill sent me a graphic from his Schenectady paper advertizing a place called the "Flat Road Diner" and said in his letter, a reference to this, that it should be my new logo. Changing my logo had not been on my mind at all, but I thlught to myself, "Well, maybe Bill is right." After scanning and making the graphic "mine" buy changing the tail to a delightful curl, I substituted the new piggy for the old on my next batch of business papers and cards--and the website, too. Apologies for stepping over the verbal line, no harm intended, nor with my logo. I don't like being yelled at in red, so I assure you this will never happen again. Thanks, Ed and Norm, that's what I was after.