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29/01/2019

It’s a Colorful World After All

New Logo and Identity for ILGA by Joana Vieira
 

Established in 1978, ILGA — the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association — is an organization that brings together more than 1,200 member organizations from 132 different countries that are “dedicated to achieving equal rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and intersex people”. Funded by governments, private foundations, and contributions of private donors, ILGA raises awareness and informs institutions, government, media, and civil society through advocacy and research. As part of its 40th anniversary and coinciding with its 2019 World Conference in Aotearoa, New Zealand, ILGA introduced a new logo and identity designed by Lisbon, Portugal-based Joana Vieira.

One interesting thing about how this project came to be is that Joana had first done a redesign of ILGA as a personal exercise in 2017. She shared it with ILGA, which led them to consider an actual redesign. They then opened up the process to accept bids from other designers — Joana entered her project, officially, and was then selected to expand on it. The final result, informed by the feedback and concerns of the organization helped shape the original proposal into a more robust solution.

The main mission was to make noticeable how big this organization really is so, the first element that I had in mind was our planet Earth since the organization is globally present and the previous logo was based on that element.

Looking back at the existing logos, the only elements connecting almost every logo, are the rainbow colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple. The rainbow flag, or the LGBTI Pride flag, is a powerful symbol filled with hope, joy, and pride. It represents the fight for equality and, when used together, any LGBTI person will immediately recognize them.

Fortunately for me, ILGA is present is 6 regions of the globe and the rainbow flag has 6 colors. Just like that, I could connect these two elements.

Joana Vieira project page

New Logo and Identity for ILGA by Joana Vieira
New Logo and Identity for ILGA by Joana Vieira
Concept.
“Our new logo immediately represents what ILGA is: a global organisation committed to raising the voices of LGBTI persons everywhere, united in our rainbow and regional diversity in true world-wide solidarity”, said Helen Kennedy and Ruth Baldacchino, Co-Secretaries General of ILGA. “We, the board of ILGA World, want to show an organisation that is led by its diverse members: it is their tireless drive for change that makes the queer world go round!”.

ILGA press release

New Logo and Identity for ILGA by Joana Vieira
Logo.
New Logo and Identity for ILGA by Joana Vieira
New Logo and Identity for ILGA by Joana Vieira
In the static logo, the globe is centered on the Pacific Ocean.

The old logo was quite sad, with the most default globe icon possible and an untreated wordmark typeset in FF Meta that might as well have said “Widgets Incorporated” — a good organization deserved much better. The new logo maintains the concept of the globe but it cleverly mixes the shapes of the six continents — Antarctica is not represented as there are no permanent residents and no ILGA member organizations — with the six colors of the rainbow flag. I really like the abstract continent shapes and how they wrap around in a kind of global hug. The wordmark is alright and nicely done. One detail I appreciated in the explanation is that the “l” has a slightly exaggerated curl to make it more equal in visual weight with the “g” so as to provide more equal representation to both “lesbian” and “gay” in the name. Despite the logo having the globe and the word “world” on the right, it’s pleasantly balanced.

New Logo and Identity for ILGA by Joana Vieira
Color palette.
New Logo and Identity for ILGA by Joana Vieira
World regions.
New Logo and Identity for ILGA by Joana Vieira
Pattern.

The continent shapes on their own… it’s debatable whether that’s a good idea or not. Conceptually, yes, as each stands for a world region but visually, they become too egg-shaped on their own and too decorative as a pattern. Neither circumstance is terrible and both are mostly pleasant but I feel like the shapes are stronger together in the globe.

New Logo and Identity for ILGA by Joana Vieira
Business cards.
New Logo and Identity for ILGA by Joana Vieira
Stationery.
New Logo and Identity for ILGA by Joana Vieira
New Logo and Identity for ILGA by Joana Vieira
New Logo and Identity for ILGA by Joana Vieira
Various posters.

The applications and communication materials need a lot of work. All the posters above are a good starting point but they need to be finessed a whole lot more and they need a much tighter framework… right now it feels like all the elements are going to fall apart if you were to blow on them. A lot of it has to do with the overuse of lowercase that makes everything have the same non-importance.

New Logo and Identity for ILGA by Joana VieiraNew Logo and Identity for ILGA by Joana VieiraNew Logo and Identity for ILGA by Joana Vieira
Swag.

Swag is great though. Cheerful and colorful. Overall, this is a great and thoughtful logo redesign that manages to turn a couple of logo clichés — the globe and the rainbow flag — into something meaningful and engaging. Next step is to tighten the applications and this could be great.

Thanks to Filipe Aparicio for the tip.