Comments on: Breastfeeding: An Icon for Humanity

By: Keri

Keri — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 13:19:38 +0000

I actually read about the contest in Mothering magazine and later they announced the finalists in the next magazine. Around the same time, a friend who knows Matt personally emailed me letting me know that he was one of the finalists. I voted for him and posted the final results on my blog last year.

Before the results were announced, my husband Nick (also a graphic designer) and I saw that one of the other logos was winning. We got worried because it wasn’t simple enough (too many details). So Nick sent an email to someone at Mothering to explain that while all of the finalist’s works were awesome, they had to keep in mind that the general graphic design rule of thumb was that logos have to be simple enough to be seen clearly on a pencil. We heard back from someone saying that they felt the same way and it seems that even though the public was voting on the other logo, the board made the final decision. Whew! It’s not that we wanted a deaf person to win but it just happened that Matt’s design was the best logo according to the rules of graphic design.

While this news may be “old” news, it’s still worthwhile to mention. Stickers of the logo can be ordered here for $2:
http://www.mothering.com/shop/.....ory_id=181

My house proudly boasts that it is a breastfeeding-friendly environment. ;)

By: owl

owl — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 20:22:54 +0000

accendentally forgot to spellcheck, ooooppppssss?
asl-grammar ftw

By: Kevin M

Kevin M — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 16:47:14 +0000

I’m getting weary of some deaf people’s overuse of “Old News!”, regardless of its age of the actual news. When I remarked about an event that occured just yesterday, he or she would go “old news!”. It’d be nice to hear “Yes, I already read about it.” for a change.

By: Shane

Shane — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 13:03:17 +0000

Sara G,

Thanks for letting us know.

All, keep in mind that not all deaf people read the same blogs or blog aggregators.

By: Liz Lawrence

Liz Lawrence — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 08:17:16 +0000

I am a breastfeeding counsellor in the UK, and I actually voted for Matt’s entry! I thought it was head and shoulders above the other entries. I am hearing, but I am learning British Sign Language (I’m on Level 2 at the moment) so I was very interested to read that it was designed by a Deaf person. Well done, Matt, and thanks to Sara for running the article so I found out!

By: Sara G

Sara G — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 02:07:00 +0000

I had only recently recently heard and seen the symbol and had no idea it was designed by someone deaf. Very cool!

I regularly read thelactivist.com so it was weird to see a blog post about breastfeeding on deafdc! :)

By: Another friend

Another friend — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 23:06:04 +0000

Old news doesn’t mean it’s a bad article nor that Sara is a bad person. DeafSpook, you’re stirring up trouble where none should exist. Relax. Sara’s perfectly capable of holding her own.

By: DeafSpook

DeafSpook — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 21:19:42 +0000

Lay off the “old news” mention — Sara’s a good person. This deserves another mention in our awareness.

Matt and hundreds of other Deaf people deserve recognition especially after many unsung wonders were drowned by Deaf politics.

Deaf politics? Gallaudet spats that exposed double standards in our community.
Ridor defaming good people without doing his homework to the fullest extent.
And many more!

By: Lolajl

Lolajl — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 20:17:18 +0000

Lower case, please! How hard is it to just type in lower case??? If I can do this, you can, too.

By: Denise

Denise — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 17:02:19 +0000

They need time to produce the signs and get them to the locations which includes talking to the people at the locations. New stuff, like toys and etc, takes more than a or two yeasr to get on our shelves.

So I am not surprised that we haven’t seen them yet.